"One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat."
— Vincent J. Scully, Yale architectural historian
So was the thinking about the demolition of a Beaux Arts masterpiece, New York City's Pennsylvania Station in 1963, an act of progressive vandalism, from which rose (or sank) the present site of the Madison Square Garden complex, a dingy maze of commerce and commotion. In the 1960s, progressivism – once a purely political movement – began to seep into civics and cultural mores, e
"One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat."
— Vincent J. Scully, Yale architectural historian
So was the thinking about the demolition of a Beaux Arts masterpiece, New York City's Pennsylvania Station in 1963, an act of progressive vandalism, from which rose (or sank) the present site of the Madison Square Garden complex, a dingy maze of commerce and commotion. In the 1960s, progressivism – once a purely political movement – began to seep into civics and cultural mores, e…
