Unlike the much-memorialized former Penn Station, not every monumental edifice that meets the wrecking ball is mourned. The General Post Office was a massive Second Empire building plopped in the southern half of City Hall park, overwhelming the existing seat of government. It was described as belonging to "the worst phase of the worst school of architecture that has ever existed — the late French Renaissance;" and the building was described as "ridiculous," "an eyesore," and an "intolerable incubus upon the city for generations to come." [NYT]
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