What would Morris Martick have said, upon learning that a room full of architects and planners had a lengthy, serious discussion about whether his building at 214 West Mulberry Street was “historical?”
“Hysterical, boss!”
Or something like that. Then he would have headed back upstairs to the kitchen at Martick’s Restaurant Francais to finish the bouillabaisse.
The building, which new owners want to demolish for an apartment-and-restaurant complex, got a reprieve yesterday when the city’s preservation board ruled unanimously that it does “actively contribute to the historic nature of the Howard Street Cultural Historic District.”
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