Like all archicritics, Ada Louise Huxtable, who died last week at age 91, didn't always have kind words for the city's buildings. When 800 and 1001 Fifth Avenue were erected in 1979, Huxtable found the buildings to be horribly ugly, calling the moldings on 1001 "sliced off Tootsie Rolls." Turns out, everyone still agrees with her today. "The prices are less," said one broker, "and the sales are much, much more difficult there." [NYT]
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