23 6 / 2009
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“That place means everything,” he said. “You can look at it objectively and say it could have happened somewhere else. Maybe. But this is where it did happen.”
To him it is already a landmark.
“As far as government and what they consider important, who knows?” he said. “But for something that saturated the world culture, that went from one building to the world, I would want to hold on to the historical significance of that building.”
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Welcome to 1520 Sedgwick Ave. - The Birthplace of Hip-Hop - Bronx NY
And, further to the point of preserving what’s culturally important (rather than necessarily an aesthetic), here’s a particularly fetching example.
