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Re: OK, let's open discussion on the Poe House...
From:
Mary Krugman <[log in to unmask]>
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BP - "Preservationists shouldn't be neat freaks." -- Mary D
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Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:11:06 EDT
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In a message dated 8/2/2000 9:03:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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> The house is heavily altered from when Poe lived there (top two floors
>  >  of facade intact (lower two floors pushed out with 1920's storefront).

And..... it is not just the Poe House, but is it the demolition of a whole
row of historic Greenwich Village houses, including one where Edgar Allan Poe
lived for a few months in 1845. What about NYU's expansion program as a
threat to the low scale, low density historic Greenwich Village?

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