"Why should it be loved as a city? It is never the same city for a dozen
years altogether.  A man born in New York forty years ago finds nothing,
absolutely nothing, of the New York he knew.  If he chances to stumble
upon a few old houses not yet leveled, he is fortunate.  But landmarks,
the objects which marked the city to him, as a city, are gone."
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Harpers Monthly, June 1856

This lament about New York may be standard fare with the NYC
preservationeer elite, but it turned up in A Thread Across the Ocean, a
history of the trans-atlantic cable.  ("Hey folks, I've got a great
idea, let's connect Ireland to Canada with a 5/8 inch wire.")


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F. Mitchener Wilds, Senior Restoration Specialist
Restoration Branch
State Historic Preservation Office
919/733-6547
http://www.hpo.dcr.state.nc.us

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