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.
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.
they couldnt even get a decent picture of the damned building!
"Union Square...oh yes, It was that building constructed out of blue scaffolding and black tyvek." Seriously, was the building on the corner of Broadway and 14th?
paterson silks is listed at 36 e 14th st
SW corner. Bad news.
Like Manhattan needs another bank.
14th and University Place. I used to buy fabric there years ago. I remember wondering about the building; it didn't seem to fit with the dismal crap-retail corridor that 14th St had become by the 70s, but I had no idea it was Lapidus'.
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- bill 3-09-2005 5:23 pm
"Union Square...oh yes, It was that building constructed out of blue scaffolding and black tyvek." Seriously, was the building on the corner of Broadway and 14th?
- steve 3-09-2005 5:32 pm [add a comment]
paterson silks is listed at 36 e 14th st
- bill 3-09-2005 5:51 pm [add a comment]
SW corner. Bad news.
- selma 3-09-2005 6:15 pm [add a comment]
Like Manhattan needs another bank.
- tom moody 3-09-2005 9:53 pm [add a comment]
14th and University Place. I used to buy fabric there years ago. I remember wondering about the building; it didn't seem to fit with the dismal crap-retail corridor that 14th St had become by the 70s, but I had no idea it was Lapidus'.
- alex 3-11-2005 1:17 am [add a comment]