Three weeks ago Binyamin Appelbaum’s opinion piece, “I Want a City, Not a Museum”, appeared in the New York Times. He called Brooklyn Heights “a New York version of Colonial Williamsburg” and concluded his essay with this:I hope someday I’ll be walking with my children on the Lower East Side or the Upper West Side or Brooklyn Heights. We’ll pass one of the places where my ancestors lived, and the building will be gone. In its place will stand an apartment building, housing a new generation of New Yorkers. Yesterday the Times published three letters responding to Mr. Appelbaum.

Source: New York Times January 23, 2024 17:31 UTC