Like a growing number of decisions involving landmark designations, [the choice to raze the Purchase Building] came in the wake of a stormy dispute. At the hearing, Adrian Benepe, the city's parks commissioner, deemed the Purchase Building "a substantial barrier" to the Brooklyn park, a 1.3-mile-long waterfront area that planners have already hailed as the city's third great open space, in league with Central Park and Prospect Park. Lining up on the other side, preservationists deplored the decision, calling it "short-sighted," "a failure of imagination" and "anti-preservation." NYT
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^ "ON May 22, 1936, the photographer Berenice Abbott ambled along the Brooklyn waterfront, thrilling to river-wrapped vistas and old warehouses that glowered with imposing grandeur. Crossing the narrow streets on one of her celebrated sorties to shoot the surging metropolis for the federal Works Progress Administration, she turned her lens upon a sleek new structure rising at 11 Water Street, beneath the Brooklyn Bridge."
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