Thank You George Vescey For Warning us of a New Penn Station Fiasco in the Name of a "New" MSG
In a Sports world and real world whose values seem to have gone off the track, it was a real gift to read a column by George Vescey offering some perspective and common sense.
Sadly, Vescey's Sports of the Times column offers a fleeting island of sanity. He writes of the recently surfaced plan to integrate a "new" Madison Square Garen into the Farley Post Office in midtown Manhattan.
To Vescey like me the "new' MSG is the present one that replaced the real one that used to stand at Eighth Avenue and 49th Street (the one with the Nedick's in the front). Vescey reminds us what was destroyed at the now "Penn Plaza" to build the "new" Garden - the old classic Pennsylvania Station.
His article is a reminder and a warning to us. I hope we as a society are smart enough to get our priorities straight and take heed os his wisdom before another mammoth mistake is made
in the name of "progress".
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/sports/basketball/15vecsey.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fSports%2fColumns%2fGeorge%20Vecsey
Sadly, Vescey's Sports of the Times column offers a fleeting island of sanity. He writes of the recently surfaced plan to integrate a "new" Madison Square Garen into the Farley Post Office in midtown Manhattan.
To Vescey like me the "new' MSG is the present one that replaced the real one that used to stand at Eighth Avenue and 49th Street (the one with the Nedick's in the front). Vescey reminds us what was destroyed at the now "Penn Plaza" to build the "new" Garden - the old classic Pennsylvania Station.
His article is a reminder and a warning to us. I hope we as a society are smart enough to get our priorities straight and take heed os his wisdom before another mammoth mistake is made
in the name of "progress".
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/sports/basketball/15vecsey.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fSports%2fColumns%2fGeorge%20Vecsey
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