My friend Ally found this and put it up on Facebook a little while back and I thought it was curious enough to put up here. Check out this New York magazine article from the summer of 1987 dubbed "The Buildings New Yorkers Love To Hate." Sure, many of the choices are predictable and some of these buildings are already gone (or completely unrecognizable today), but it's amazing how history has softened some of ire in the ensuing 23 years.
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September 24, 2010
Love Hate Goes to a Building On Fire
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Indeed. Today, some of those buildings are cherished or sorely missed. I liked the old Columbus Circle. Flipping through that New York magazine is an incredible time-traveling experience: there are only three restaurants in Brooklyn listed, and one of them is Junior's.
Posted by: James Taylor | September 24, 2010 at 12:00 PM
At the time, I would have disagreed about the Lipstick Building and the AT & T building, and agreed about the other eight. And I still do today. And while this decade hasn't been as architecturally disastrous as the 60s and 70s, the General Motors building seems to be the template of alot (not all) of the major projects today.
I think the only building in that list to not be around is the World Trade Center. The Twin Towers were a good addition to the skyline, but I worked at the World Trade Center and up close it was a very cold and alienating site. I'm upset about the way they were demolished, but not that they are gone. And I'd be fine if the other buildings on that list were demolished, removing the people and businesses from them first.
Posted by: Ed | September 26, 2010 at 12:27 AM
Well, the Department of Cultural Affairs building on Columbus Circle is basically gone..... or at least as it was.
Posted by: Alex in NYC | September 26, 2010 at 07:59 AM
The Pan Am building, or whatever they're calling it these days, is one of my favorite buildings.
It is true people really hated the Twin Towers. When I saw the movie "Deep Impact" in the theater (1998), some people laughed and cheered for the scene when the tidal wave destroyed the Twin Towers. I think there's a kind of cultural amnesia now about how unpopular they were.
Posted by: Nora | September 26, 2010 at 02:49 PM