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Squeegee men and sex shops aren't the only things New York is losing in its rush to become a playground for the bourgeoisie. Also threatened are the city's cool, confident landmarks of postwar modernism, which somehow don't seem fabulous enough for the new New York. The latest casualty is 666 Fifth Avenue, a 1957 office tower that boasted a ground floor full of Good Design: two restaurants by Raymond Loewy, architect Gio Ponti's Alitalia ticket office and a waterfall sculpture and ceiling by sculptor Isamu Noguchi.