David McCullough holds press conference in DUMBO, calls project “visual vandalism”

Historian and author David McCullough held a press conference in DUMBO this morning, arranged by the DUMBO Neighborhood Association. He spoke at length and very passionately about the desecration that would occur should Dock Street DUMBO be built as planned. You can read more in the New York Times and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Newsday. See original announcement at DUMBONYC.

Update 4/2/2009: Additional coverage at NY1 and at the Brooklyn Paper and at the Daily News.