Hot Links: border feuds, mod preservation plaques, smog-eating buildings, and more

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Georgia and Tennessee are having an old fashioned border feud. Over water. (Think Colonial era meets Chinatown.) [AtlanticWire]

Payphone time machines (this is not a new Ice Cube movie) [AtlanticCities]

This artist has drawn more than 500 of New York's building and wants to draw all of them. All 900,000. [NYTimes]

New York City's best public food market is in Philadelphia [Mark Bittman, NYTimes]

QueensWay viaduct park vs restored rail service speeding commutes from Rockaways [A/N blog]

Torre de Especialidades: Mexico City's smog-eating building [Fast.Co Exist]

New Canaan's modernist gems get specially designed mod history plaques [A/N blog]

Michael Bloomberg: Mayor of Preservation [Wall Street Journal]
Yo Pritzker: Give Denise Scott Brown her due [Change.org petition]
Should Madison Square Garden stay put... FOREVER? [A/N blog]

Long time, no links. HOT LINKS lives.

Grand Central Station. December 2012. Photo by The Preservator

Holy Moses, has it been this long? Preservator readers - all three of you - I apologize. I have been cheating on you, writing for a certain Philly-centric online outlet. But, let's be real, I miss being here too. So let's not dwell in neglect, but push on where we left off.

Here are a few Friday HOT LINKS:

JFK's PanAm Worldport (now Delta Terminal 3) building is a goner [Atlantic Cities] To be fair, this once futuristic, jet-age wonder has seen better days, but what a bummer. savetheworldport.org
What's a tree worth? Maybe more than your house. [Next City]
Affordable LGBT housing for seniors in Philly's Gayborhood by Wallace Roberts Todd [A/N blog]
Why the Philadelphia Historical Commission won't process any nominations [Hidden City Daily]
Isn't it time to divorce Penn Station and Madison Square Garden? Kimmelman says yes. [NYTimes]
LPC designates 5 historic firehouses: Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace, Longwood, Rockaway Park, and Bathgate [A/N blog]
Grand Central Station at 100, a look at this beauty past and present [A/N blog]