L.E.S. Dangerous To Endangered
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced today that Manhattan’s Lower East Side has made their list of “America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places“. The Lower East Side has long been a home to immigrants and their families, many of whom entered through Ellis Island and later moved all over America, but is now falling victim to over development and the same gentrification policies that are killing all of NYC. Now that SoHo and other parts of downtown Manhattan have been destroyed of any character the money hungry, soul-less developers have moved on to the L.E.S., with the help (and hand in pocket backing) of the Bloomberg administration, who issued permits to level a dozen buildings last year, compared with just one in 2006. No one wants the crack heads and violence of old NYC back (see video below) but a Gap and Starbucks on every block is not what NYC is about or needs either!
