article_snippet.sent: Saving Place, which opens Tuesday at the Museum of the City of New York, highlights what is widely seen as a watershed moment in New York City's's preservation movement, the 1963 demolition of the old Beaux Arts-style Pennsylvania Station to make way for Madison Square Garden. '
article_snippet.sent: Nobody really believed that a building of such civic importance would be demolished,' said Meenakshi Srinivasan, an architect and chairman of Landmarks Preservation Commission. '
article_snippet.sent: Meenakshi Srinivasan, an architect and chairman of the Landmarks Preservation Commission really created the coalescing of all factors to come together to save buildings important to New York City's identity.'
article_snippet.sent: The loss of the old Penn Station, which was replaced by Madison Square Garden, helped lead to the establishment of a commission that can designate historic places as landmarks and prevent them being demolished .
article_snippet.sent: St John's Chapel, which was built in the area now called Soho in 1807, was demolished in 1918 as New York City moved to widen the street next to New York City .
article_snippet.sent: The Randall Memorial Church (left) in Snug Harbor, Staten Island, fell into disrepair and was demolished by 1952.
article_snippet.sent: The City Hall Post Office, designed by A B Mullet on City Hall Park, was widely criticized as 'Mullet's monstrosity' after 'Mullet's monstrosity' opened in 1880 and was torn down in the late 1930s .
article_snippet.sent: New York's Grand Central Terminal and New York's Main Waiting Room was at one point slated to be destroyed to make way for an office building before a campaign by former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis .