Either way , the chairman 's refusal to call a hearing -- a mere hearing , which would commit the commission to nothing -- or to so much as discuss a hearing was as good as an official proclamation : Landmarking no longer exists in New York City , not even as a principle -- or not above the level of the occasional parish house in Staten Island or rusticated old stone archway in eastern Queens .
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