Edward Hayes

Author of The Love Scrolls

[Edward Hayes @ethayes2010]

The Love Scrolls: Seven contains 345 FREE poems and if you get started with a poem a day today you still have 20 free days and maybe, just maybe you will find yourself among the army of love that keeps the hate away.

Happy New Year 🎆 ✌️❤️ https://t.co/ruGdb4nu2T

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@naturalbeautyi7 Paradise

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Manarola, Cinque Terre, Italy 🇮🇹

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June 14 is Flag Day

The Love Scrolls celebrates the love of country with Old Glory 🇺🇸 ❤️📜

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@PrettyCitiesX This is definitely the worlds favorite square.

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Identify this location without using Google

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@PrettyCitiesX This is definitely the worlds favorite square.

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@ethayes2010 @JamesLucasIT @big_pedestrian Great idea! Maybe Elon would pay for it! They would need to relocate Madison Square Garden somewhere else.

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This isn’t a cheap history book.
It’s a collector’s piece.
200 pages. Premium materials. Stunning full-color visuals.
A book designed to sit on your table — and start conversations.
Own the story of America.

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@JamesLucasIT @big_pedestrian They need to rebuild this exactly as it was. This building needs to be designated a National Posthumous Monument and like the twin towers they need to be rebuilt just like much of Europe was rebuilt exactly as it was after WWII.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

In 1963, New York City committed what one critic called an act of vandalism against its own soul. It tore down the most beautiful building it had ever built, and it has regretted it every day since.

The building was Pennsylvania Station, and for half a century it was one of the great rooms of the world...

It opened in 1910, designed by the architects McKim, Mead & White, and it covered eight acres in the heart of Manhattan. Its main waiting room was modeled on the Baths of Caracalla in ancient Rome, with ceilings that rose 150 feet into the air.

Sunlight poured down through vast steel-and-glass canopies onto the concourse below. To step off a train and walk up into that light was, for millions of arriving travelers, the moment New York announced itself.

A historian, Vincent Scully, famously wrote that, through it, one entered the city like a god. One scuttles in now like a rat...

Because in 1963, the railroad, losing money and sitting on immensely valuable land, sold the air rights above the station. The great building was condemned. Wave by wave, the pink granite columns were pulled down and dumped in a New Jersey swamp, and a low, windowless complex of Madison Square Garden and an office tower was built on top of the surviving tracks.

There was no law to stop it. At the time, nothing in New York protected a historic building from destruction, however beloved. Leading architects stood outside in protest as the demolition began. It made no difference...

But something came out of the loss. The destruction of Penn Station horrified the public so deeply that it gave birth to the modern preservation movement in America. New York passed its landmarks law in 1965, and that law would later save Grand Central Terminal from the very same fate.

In a way, Penn Station became more powerful in death than it had ever been in life.

It’s really true that we never truly know what we have until we lose it... the columns of Penn Station could not be saved. But every landmark that still stands in New York today stands partly because of what their loss awakened in the people who watched them fall.

Ada Louise Huxtable, the first architecture critic of The New York Times, wrote of the demolition in 1963: "The tragedy is that our own times not only could not produce such a building, but cannot even maintain it."

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