Pravin Togadiya, the international general secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Organisation, or VHP), which leads the Ramjanmabhoomi movement and has ties to the BJP, likens the alleged Muslim demolition of the original temple in Ayodhya 500 years ago to the destruction of the World Trade Centre.
[New York Times] Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the demolition of the original Penn Station.
Advocates say it is also an opportunity to create a monumental gateway to the city, redress the demolition of the original train station in the 1960s and develop a vibrant new business district.
Though ultimately unsuccessful, the Fox Meadow residents delayed the construction of the two houses at 270 Fox Meadow Road for 18 months by contesting the demolition of the original home at that site.
Two photographic exhibitions about New York's great railroad stations will be at the gallery from Wednesday through May 12. From 1963 to 1966, Peter Moore took black and white images of the demolition of the original Pennsylvania Station, which was designed by McKim Mead & White.
Civic groups, developers and government officials have embraced the plan as an act of civic redemption for the demolition of the original Penn Station in the 1960s, saying it will also create a first-class business district around the nation's busiest rail hub.
Senator Moynihan first suggested in 1992 that the Farley post office, which stretches from Eighth to Ninth Avenue opposite the Garden, could be turned into a grand train station to help alleviate congestion at Penn Station in a gesture of civic redemption for the much-lamented demolition of the original station in the 1960s.
There, demolition of the original Birds Eye frozen food factory started in August 2014; Davis and a partner plan to build a hotel on the site.
In that instance, regulators refused to approve the original demolition contractor Bovis sought, Safeway Environmental.
The original demolition of the mosque and subsequent violence has been blamed on senior politicians from the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP).
