Historical preservation is a scam. A way to make well to do liberal feel good about themselves. The rejection of the Arc tower on the grounds that a run of the bank building that happened to be built in the 1920’s should be preserved at the expense of 1000units of desperately needed new housing exposes the “historical preservation” racket for what it is.

Any building worth preserving has already been preserved! Will preserving a school on the basis of it having been build 100 years ago change the fact that 1 out of 3 kid in NPS can’t read at grade level?

Perhaps it’s time to stop solving imaginary problems and start paying attention to real one .