Condo completes demise of ‘ever-loyal, noble city’

Very enjoyable reading is “Boston: My memories of the Hill” by Dr. Joven Cuanang (Lifestyle, 11/22/14). He, however, touched a painful chord when he also reminisced about our Old Manila which he deplored “as decimated, scarred and forever lost; an ignoble deed of functionaries of the rough kind.”
But his grief over Old Manila is far from over. It’s now the turn of the 116-year-old historic Army and Navy Club on Roxas Boulevard to be savaged. As he reminisced about Old Boston, the heritage landmark is being decimated slowly, brick by brick. While behind the Rizal monument in Luneta Park, a 49-story condominium has not been stopped from  rising as if to complete the demise of the ever-loyal and noble city of our memories.

I applaud Doctor Cuanang and his fond memories of Old Boston.
—IKE C. GUTIERREZ,
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