Tom Wolfe, Steadfast Preservationist
The travails of LSD-dropping hippies and horny college kids are nothing compared to Tom Wolfe’s battle against developer Aby Rosen to protect a tiny five-story building in his neighborhood on the Upper East Side against inevitable “glass-topping.”
In “The (Naked) City and the Undead” in today’s New York Times, Wolfe delivers the reason for his struggle: a powerless and corrupt Landmarks Preservation Commission. He knocks commission members as the “walking dead,” and singles out mayors one-by-one for their spinelessness, which comes to a head over the fight for the oft-maligned structure which will soon house the Museum
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