670 Sixth Avenue
670 Sixth Avenue is a late 19th century townhouse that was clad in the 1960s
with a glass and aluminum modernist facade that was remarkable for its inescapable
datedness and complete obliviousness to the other architecture on the block. As
with Madison Square Garden, this is a summative artifact of 1960s arrogance.
However, a repurposing of the building as yet another bank, resulted in
a cleanup of the facade to a state that gives at least a glimmer of the
attraction that such architectural mistakes had for their generation.
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