The Frick Collection has yielded.
Facing a groundswell of opposition to a proposed renovation that would have eliminated a gated garden to make way for a six-story addition, the museum — long admired for its intimate scale — has decided to abandon those plans and start over from scratch. [...]
With the proposed renovation, designed by Davis Brody Bond, the Frick, on East 70th Street in Manhattan, had sought to increase its exhibition space [...].
— nytimes.com
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Please save this space. Listen to the people, it's beautiful.
They should do to it what Frick did to Johnstown.
That'll show New Yorkers.
has decided to abandon those plans
Yaaa!
start over from scratch
Booo!
It's amazing how we can't just leave some things alone when they provide so much solace and joy for citizens. I suppose that's what preservation is about.
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