The blind men and the white elephant: N.Y.'s terrible Penn Station development plan
The disqualifying problem with the state’s plan to rezone the blocks across the street from Penn Station is best illustrated by the parable of the blind men and the elephant: Four blind men encounter an elephant for the first time. One of the men feels a leg, another a tusk, another the trunk, the last the tail. After comparing notes, they throw up their hands. No one has a clue what the animal is.