I have always maintained that preservation is just a style - as opposed to the holy act it is usually depicted to be - and that such is our style choice at the moment, just as neo-Romanesque was the style of the 1880s.
 
Today I was walking down 22nd, Fifth to Sixth, and walked past some restoration work on a 1910s loft building.  They had, I noted, peeled off the crappy old storefront off the front of the building, exposing the original stonework, which had been jackhammered down to a flat surface in the 1960s to accomodate the new storefront.    Then I noticed that the jackhammering looked very fresh.  Then I noticed that it was very fresh. Then I noticed that owner and architect had decided to put a new front on, and had jackhammered the stonework down to a flat surface just in the last week or so ... to put on a new hi-tech front.
 
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