Why is 574 Fifth Avenue, a former brownstone mansion transformed in the 1890s into one of Fifth Avenue’s most interesting and important low-rise commercial structures, being demolished to allow some internal mall project that’s already too big to become even bigger?
Tom Miller’s Daytonian in Manhattan tells you about 574/5’s extraordinary evolution.
It is absolutely outrageous what is being done to this city, and if the Mayor doesn’t start living up to his campaign promises about ending inequality and doesn’t stop acting as shill for the developers, he needs to be primaryed rather than being given a third term in the Bloombergian manner.