Thank you for sharing. I am so disheartened by this news. Despite its recent state of disrepair, the Jackson Triplex is a classic structure. It has been in our neighborhood since before the Great Depression. There must be a way to at least save the exterior; to incorporate it into the developer's new plans.
In the 1960s, Greenwich Village residents saved the Jefferson Market Library structure from being demolished.
They almost did not succeed, and we wouldn't have the beautiful, historic structure that still stands on 6th Ave off W8th St.
Architect Lord Norman Foster preserved the exterior of the 1920s Hearst Enterprises bldg on W57th St, when designing the bldg's extension. I'm sure Hearst's capital & popularity helped make that happen, but
how can we, in little ol' JH, have the developers respect our old structure and preserve it? It's a link to our past. Who can we appeal to?
I'm so tired of seeing classic NY structures demolished right and left. (Just last year, W29th St lost a classic bldg next to Marble Collegiate Church, just to be replaced with a bland modern bldg across from the swanky Ace Hotel.
I'll bet the plans for what we'll be getting on 82nd St won't even be swanky!)
