How do you think grand old New York City pre-wars and most of central Paris came to be? Prague? Florence? I could go on…Vanity, ego, wealth, whatever. It gives us beautiful varied architecture! Not cookie cutter high rises. We need more not less nuts displaying their vanity and wealth! Rather that than rich developers and investors interested only in the bottom line and displaying blah, marketed still toward “luxury” condos.
— from The Venetian: 16th-Century Living, Gravesend-Style