Casualty of NYC Development
He Brought Moynihan Train Hall to Life, but Didn’t Live to See It
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/nyregion/michael-evans-moynihan-train-hall.html
Mr. Evans should be honored as a development wartime casualty in which the fierce battle over costs is unending, change orders unstoppable, schedules inflexible, overseers unsatisfiable, scapegoating merciless, interest groups competing and conspiring, featherbedding and no-shows indemic, prying eyes and outsiders grasping at straws to castigate whole projects as boondoggles.
Those who enlist in NYC building warfare quickly learn nothing prepared them for real estate terrorism against inexperienced newcomers sent into the battlefield to draw fire of distant artillery located in banks, and state capitols, and city halls and law firms, and unions, and industry board rooms, and not least RICO gangs controlling deliveries, labor, bribes, knee-cappings, job accidents, celebratory dinners for key players expecting brown envelopes regularly.
New York is tough, Cuomo spouts, not for the tender. Loyal and brave Mr. Evans was sacrificed to get a landmark open for political glory, god rest his soul. No plaque nor architectural critic will ever tell the whole story of pandemic profiteering development. Ada Huxtable tried and was retired by demand.