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Heeding urgent pleas from preservation advocates, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission agreed yesterday morning to hold a hearing on the future of the 1949 Paterson Silks retail building at Union Square. But it was too late.they couldnt even get a decent picture of the damned building!
Hours earlier, the building's most distinctive feature, a double-height, glass-walled tower, had fallen victim to the wrecking ball to make way for a Bank of America branch.
The missed opportunity jolted advocates of midcentury architecture who have been fighting to save the Paterson Silks building and the former Summit Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Both were designed by the architect Morris Lapidus, best known for his colorful Miami Beach creations like the flamboyant Fontainebleau and Eden Roc hotels.