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| Schermerhorn Row, South Street Seaport. |
Continued from here.
In 1968, the same
year that the replacement for New York's old Pennsylvania Station (Pennsylvania
Plaza and Madison Square Garden) was completed, Schermerhorn Row on the
southwest tip of Manhattan was designated an historic landmark by the Landmarks
Preservation Commission to save it from destruction. It would eventually become part of a larger redevelopment: the South Street Seaport.
From the beginning
the planning of the South Street Seaport was divided between a variety of interests
including the mayor's Office of Development, the Seaport Museum and affiliates,
the Maritime Museum, the state of New York, various financial institutions, the
Rouse Company, and several design firms. However, as the developer, the
Rouse company set much of the agenda for the site, and on the tail of recent
successes James Rouse proposed a festival marketplace.[1]
