Observing the destruction of a row of 19th century buildings

Here is a painful video: a whole row of 19th century historic homes being demolished. I made a video starting at 233 Duffield Street headed down to Willoughby and over to Bridge. 233 and 227 Duffield are clearly connected to the abolitionist movement, but the other buildings were quite charming and could have been part of creative re-use. Instead, they all get destroyed. Here is a bit of an homage.

http://youtu.be/9eoMTBrdSzk

The recreation of Downtown Brooklyn is similar but even bigger than the corner of Prospect Heights dubbed Atlantic Yards by the developer. Many of the same people are involved.

I usually try to be uplifting, but there are times to just observe the destruction of New York and to honor it by at least acknowledging what we are doing to our city.