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While I appreciate the sentiment, some of the supporting facts are dead wrong.

> If we didn't do this, the city where I live, New York, would have a freeway running down the middle of it.

That's not really the reason that Robert Moses's LOMEX project failed.

> There would be no Central Park.

Again, 'national landmarks' are not the reason Central Park was created, nor are they the reason it still exists

> The East Village would only have NYU dorms.

That's kind of the way Greenwich Village is heading as it is. National landmarks haven't stopped NYU from taking over the neighborhood.




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