Perhaps 50 Journal Square — historically known as the Universal Building — is, through City Hall’s fixed focal lens, a building in distress, an emptied-out eyesore, a carbonized edifice without a fra
gment of cultural valueHence it must be and will be demolished, they assert, and eminent domain — the government-seizure instrument disenfranchised communities fear the most — will ensure its erasure In its place will be, they promise, a widened pedestrian concourse landscaped into a pocket park Occupants of the Square’s newest apartment towers of affluence — and there are many — will be pleased and well...
Universal’s tapestry-brick walls and flat planes — copper-hued and textured in the provinces of middays and aglow in the radiances of full moons — do not rise to the level of historic preservation, these politicians’ actions show Instead of appreciating an awesome vertical capsule of vernacular urban architecture and embracing its potentiality as a key component in the rebirth of the Square, they prefer to speak to the stresses its exterior envelope is facing They see, only, smog-slicked...
With the Universal Building in particular, visits to public repositories will reveal — in a sort of mesmerizing slow-motion effect — past, not-so-distant incarnations of the Journal Square area; shed light on Universal’s visionary investors, builders, and architects; and pinpoint, with factual certainty, who the lease holders, tenant occupants, and visitors were over the decadesThe Universal Building was the dream of Journal Square pioneer Henry W Runyon , who, with his Jersey City-based...
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