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"Are buildings more sacred than the lives of our children?" asked Rabbi Hersh Rosenwasser as he and a crowded hearing room waited for the verdict from the City's Board of Estimate as to whether the mansion in which Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim is housed would be confirmed as a city landmark and therefore immune from the wreckers' ball.
He and the raucus crowd, tense from waiting for hours for the hearing to begin, even tenser over the arguments stated by both sides, did not have long to wait for the verdict. The yeshiva had lost. The landmark status would remain, and the school could not sell the Riverside Drive building for...