From Gotham Gazette – http://www.gothamgazette.com/article//20060726/203/1923by Alexander PerkinsJuly 26, 2006 At its most recent meeting on July 19, 2006, the New York City Council introduced 13 new bills, including legislation aimed at identifying potential historic landmarks, monitoring educational programs for the disabled, and gaining a more accurate count of the number of homeless people living on […]
From the NY Times: Whitney Expansion Is Approved The city’s Board of Standards and Appeals granted seven waivers to zoning rules yesterday for an expansion of the Whitney Museum of American Art, eliminating the last major barrier to construction. The addition, by the architect Renzo Piano, includes a 178-foot, nine-story tower that would rise behind […]
From the Brooklyn Downtown Starhttp://www.brooklyndowntownstar.com/StoryDisplay.asp?PID=4&NewsStoryID=4170 Council: We’ve Got Your Landmark Right HereBy Shane MillerThe City Council might have more influence over the city’s landmarking process if a bill introduced at last week’s stated meeting becomes law.The legislation, which was introduced by northeast Queens Councilman Tony Avella, would require the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to hold […]
Dear Neighbors and Friends, Yesterday (Monday, July 24, 2006), Gregg Singer, representative of the owner of old PS 64, former Charas, moved the hanging scaffolding from the center north courtyard to the eastern wall of that courtyard, and this morning workers began destroying a dormer there – this work is the first willful defacing of […]
4 Borough Landmarks Make Endangered Listby Rick Archer, Assistant Editor from the Queens Chronicle http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16946467&BRD=2731&PAG=461&dept_id=575596&rfi=6 Four Queens buildings made the final cut on a list of the most endangered buildings in New York City, according to a historical preservation group.The New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Park is the most prominent Queens landmark that […]
From the New York SunMTA Plans To Transform ‘Honest Boy’ Fruit Stand Into Glass, Steel BuildingBY DAVID LOMBINO – Staff Reporter of the SunJuly 25, 2006URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/36633 While the MTA mulls the city’s $500 million offer for development rights to the 26-acre Hudson rail yards, it is moving ahead with plans to transform a tiny […]
Where: Weds., 26 July 2006, Warwick Hotel, West 54 Street + Sixth Avenue When: 7:00 pm Why: Our low rise oasis of a neighborhood is being degraded. On West 56 Street, in late June, the ornament on the facades of 31, 33, 35 and 37 West 56 was destroyed. Number 39 has recently been sold […]
The BSA unanimously voted to deny the vesting application of developer Isaac Katan’s 182 15th St. proposed 11-story tower. Developer’s attorney Howard Hornstein of Cozen O’Connor has 30 days to appeal the BSA’s decision to the State Supreme Court. (The higher courts have in the past supported BSA decisions.) Our community has won its first […]
Isadora Duncan Dances at the Alice Austen House, Saturday, July 29, at 6:30 PM Duncan and Austen are two extraordinary turn-of-the-century female artists who created new ways to experience the world around us. Now, for the first time, these two creative forces come together for one amazing evening. Don’t miss it. Isadora Duncan, represented by […]
From the New York Post http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/block_on_the_rocks_regionalnews_jennifer_fermino.htmBLOCK ON THE ‘ROCKS’By JENNIFER FERMINOJuly 25, 2006 — A downtown fight over the landmarked streets of TriBeCa has pitted stroller-pushing moms against hardened preservationists.Residents of 44 Laight St. – a converted factory where condo lofts go for $5 million a pop – say they’re tired of traipsing along the […]
