{"id":4627,"date":"2012-11-09T08:04:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2013-06-30T20:45:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T00:45:15","slug":"photos-of-rochester-bragdon-station-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2012\/11\/photos-of-rochester-bragdon-station-demolition\/","title":{"rendered":"Left for Dead: Rochester’s Union Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rochester's<\/a>
\nI know I keep coming back to this over<\/a> and over<\/a> and over<\/a> again. But I just can’t believe we intentionally reduced this once world-class rail station to rubble only so we could pay tens of millions 50 years later in an attempt \"external<\/a> to build a much smaller and less impressive imitation of what we once had.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to say much more about it. I just wanted to share these recently found photos of Rochester’s half-demolished NY Central (Bragdon) Station. Like a decapitated, rotting corpse left to rot in public as a reminder of a brutal ‘auto’cracy. Most of the building was torn down in the 1960’s but one section stood like this for over a decade before it was finally removed altogether and replaced with the current Amtrak building in the mid to late 70’s. Oy, how painful…<\/p>\n

\"Rochester's<\/a>
\nThis is what the interior of the station looked like in its glory days (above). And this is what we did to it…<\/p>\n

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\"Rochester's<\/a>
\nWould it not have been better to leave this station to rot indefinitely? At least the possibility of restoration would still exist. As in Buffalo where the Central Station Restoration Corporation \"external<\/a> has been slowly but steadily working toward restoring their once grand NY Central Terminal.<\/p>\n

\"Rochester's<\/a>
\nMr. Bragdon, we are so unworthy!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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