Editing Radio Row (section)

===Demolition===
Radio Row was torn down in 1966 to make room for the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/020603.radiorow.html|title='Radio Row:' The neighborhood before the World Trade Center|date=2002-06-03|publisher=National Public Radio|access-date=2006-10-01}}</ref> Five years earlier, the [[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]] rejected a proposal to build the new complex on the east side of [[Lower Manhattan]]'s [[Financial District, Manhattan|Financial District]]. Instead, officials chose a site on the west side, near [[Hudson Terminal]], and began planning to use [[eminent domain]] to remove the shops in the area bounded by [[Vesey Street (Manhattan)|Vesey]], [[Church Street (Manhattan)|Church]], [[Liberty Street (Manhattan)|Liberty]], and [[West Street (Manhattan)|West]] streets.<ref name="glanz">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/cityinskyris00glan|url-access=registration|title=City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center|last=Glanz|first=James|author2=Eric Lipton|publisher=Times Books|year=2003|isbn=0-8050-7428-7}}</ref>{{rp|56}}

Local opposition arose to the decision to raze the streets on the west side for the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]]. Sam Slate reported on this for [[WCBS (AM)|WCBS]] Radio in 1962:{{blockquote|Shaping up in New York City is a legal battle of overriding importance. Its outcome will conceivably affect us all. If the considerable power of the Port Authority is allowed to dispossess the merchants of Radio Row, then, it is our conviction, no home or business is safe from the caprice of government.<ref name="glanz"/>{{rp|62}}}}  The city also objected to the compensation given for the streets themselves obscured by the [[Superilla|superblock]].

A committee of small business owners led by Oscar Nadel took exception to the Port Authority's offer of $30,000 to any business in the condemned area, regardless of its size or age. Nadel's group, who estimated that businesses in the area employed 30,000 people and generated $300 million per year, sued the Port Authority.<ref name="glanz"/>{{rp|68}} But the court ultimately threw out the case, called ''Courtesy Sandwich Shop v. Port of New York Authority,'' in November 1963 "for want of a substantial federal question".<ref name="glanz"/>{{rp|87}}

After the closing of these stores, the concentration of radio retailers was not duplicated elsewhere in New York.  Some clusters of radio and electronics stores were created or added to in the [[Canal Street (Manhattan)|Canal Street]] and [[Union Square (Manhattan)|Union Square]] areas. A large black-and-white photo mural of Radio Row can be viewed at the [[PATH (rail system)|PATH]]'s [[World Trade Center station (PATH)|World Trade Center station]].