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A real "wow!" post by Scouting New York on getting a tour of Manhattan's 5 Beekman Street, boarded up for decades. Click through for stunning photos.
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In 1940, the atrium was boarded up due to firecode violations. Completely hidden, later tenants would never know of its existence, seeing only a walled corridor (though according to a recent NY Times article, a secret door offered those who stumbled upon it an amazing discovery).
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Why demolish one of the Bay Area's most recognizable structures rather than retain at least some of it for public use? "There's no reason it can't be transformed into something wondrous, a fusion of nature and the machine," said Frederic Schwartz, a New York architect who spent last fall as the college's Joseph Esherick Visiting Professor in Architecture.
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Inspired by NYC's High Line, Frederic Schwartz's students re-purposed the Bay Bridge (slated for demolition).

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