Without formal designations from New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, there is little stopping private owners from tearing down even the most storied structures.
—as well as annual property taxes totalling more than four hundred thousand dollars—changed everything.
For days, the picked-apart building was a salvage gold mine. Trucks from the antiques-wholesale operation Olde Good Things, which is, were seen parked on site following the auction and have been spotted there as recently as late November. The company has listed Grand Prospect Hall doors for sale on Facebook, and employees confirmed that it has been selling lighting fixtures, stained glass windows, and framed photographs from the hall at its Fifty-second Street Manhattan showroom.
Andrew Dolkart, a professor of historic preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, told me that Prospect Hall had been on the landmarks commission’s radar since the nineteen-seventies, when he worked for the commission, “but it just never got done.” about his family’s intertwined history with the building.
The teens found an ally in Jim Glaser, a neighbor to the hall and an arts community organizer. Once Glaser, a twenty-year Burning Man veteran, tapped into his neighborhood and activism networks, the petition exploded, garnering more than forty thousand signatures in a couple of weeks. But by this point the interior destruction was already well under way.
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