We could go example &#x2F; counter example all day long. The highways cut through living neighborhoods destroyed the southern Bronx and it&#x27;s never recovered. Development can be done well or it can be done poorly, but to decide which is which we need to first agree and what we are trying to achieve. Personally, I don&#x27;t think much of &quot;character of the community&quot; arguments. If you want that move out of one of the quaint bedroom communities in Westchester, Nassau or Jersey.<p>@misiti3780 
The original Penn Station was a beautiful, light filled, Beaux-Arts style building. It was knocked down to put up Madison Square Garden (a sports arena) and an office building. The current Penn Station is a depressing, underground, dirty warren. The NYC preservation movement has its beginning in the uproar over tearing the old one.