It will cost $1.5 billion to repair New York’s crumbling Lincoln Center. So instead, why not just tear it down and start over? “It’s time to start thinking hard about tearing down Lincoln Center and building up a new, much better one—an architectural masterpiece that will signal New York City’s miraculous recovery over the last decade and its renewed confidence that it will be the capital of the twenty-first century as it has been of the twentieth.” – City Journal 11/00