The site of the Marriott Marquis on West 46th Street once held one of Times Square's most famous dinner-and-dance halls, the Parisian-inspired Folies Bergère, later called Helen Hayes Theater by the time it was demolished in 1982 after a bitter preservation fight. Now the remains of the 1911 facade ("now perhaps 50 pieces, most broken, chipped or otherwise damaged") are residing in a Brooklyn warehouse, up for sale as part of the Landmark Preservation Commission's 30-lot auction on October 24. Ready your paddles, preservationists! [NYT]
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