Remember the Dakota Stables on 77th and Amsterdam? Maybe not, because the 1894 Romanesque Revival building was torn down in 2006, four days before its Landmarks Preservation Commission designation hearing. Pictured at right, the site now holds 16 stories' worth of luxury condos. New York Magazine highlights six historic NYC sites that could have been landmarks, had their crafty owners not rushed to raze them and avoid that very status. From the recently demolished Frank Lloyd Wright-designed car showroom at 430 Park Avenue to Coney Island's Steeplechase Park, read on and mourn some lost icons. [NYM]
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