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The prize.(New York City landmark Tweed Courthouse)(Brief Article)

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| April 01, 2002 | Goldberger, Paul | COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

What to do with the Tweed Courthouse, which sits just to the north of City Hall, is shaping up to be one of the most contentious issues concerning a New York City landmark in some time. The courthouse is a sumptuous Anglo-Italianate palazzo with more than two dozen magnificent courtrooms arranged around a five-story octagonal rotunda topped by a colored-glass skylight. By the time it was completed, in 1876, the builders were more than eleven million dollars over budget, owing largely to kickbacks orchestrated by William Marcy Tweed, the corrupt "boss" of Tammany Hall. Tweed may have cheated the taxpayers, but he gave them something for their money -- one of the finest public buildings the city has ever had. It functioned as a courthouse until the early nineteen-seventies, and later was home to a series of municipal offices. By then, it was in bad shape. The majestic ...

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