And that is a sad cultural loss for the city.

However, Smiley was almost certainly responsible for more financial and cultural loss than any of his predecessors.

New York was diminished a bit by each of those cultural losses.

What, after all, is a little genocide compared with the specter of such cultural loss?

The cultural loss, they believe, did not outweigh any potential educational gain.

The losses - financial and cultural - have been incalculable.

But cultural and economic losses from such decisions often become apparent only years, or even decades, later.

And two panels were created recently to help families trace their cultural losses.

"I felt it would be a big cultural loss for the city if the theater closed."

While the human and property losses were staggering, the cultural loss is still felt today.