Hey, we’re evolving here!

New Yorkers know that the only constant in local life is change — but in 2025, some of the most exciting new additions to the city are sounding comfortingly familiar.

Beloved institutions may come and go in the fast-paced Big Apple, but a spate of preservation-driven progress is lately warming the hearts of even the most jaded nostalgists.

Those whose job it is to monitor Gotham’s unstoppable growth say they welcome the recent wave of reinvention — while reminding that the trend shouldn’t come as a complete surprise.

“We’re continually growing and changing, but we also preserve a lot of what makes this city architecturally distinct and unique, from different periods over literally hundreds of years,” Moses Gates, author of the urban exploration bible “ Hidden

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