Applications are now available to eligible municipalities and not-for-profit organizations to compete for funds through Preserve New York, a grant program of the Preservation League of New York State and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). A total of $87,200 is available for historic structure reports, historic landscape reports and cultural resource […]
Just to be clear, in Union Square a site associated with labor and Socialism is about to be sold under & in Richmond Hill, the Republican Club is hanging on by a thread. If History is written by the victors, who won? From the New York Times January 28, 2007Union SquareFor a Pavilion With a […]
From the New York Times January 28, 2007Richmond HillWhere Dignitaries Spoke, Bad Beams and Frail WallsBy JEFF VANDAM The words “Republican Club” remain in arched black letters above the four-columned entrance to the Colonial Revival structure in the Richmond Hill neighborhood in Queens, but the building’s paint is peeling badly. Ornate black lanterns that once […]
From Gay City News 01/25/2007Preservation Bid Eyes Gay HistoryBy: PAUL SCHINDLER “Witness the Scenes in ‘the Slide’ as the Herald Describes Them to You, and Straightway Begin Your Work of Reform.” So read a sub-headline in a crusading piece of New York Herald reporting on January 5, 1892, as reported in George Chauncey’s acclaimed 1994 […]
From Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts The Landmarks Preservation Commission has just announced that Manhattan House, NewYork City’s first white brick apartment building located at 200 East 66th Street, will be calendared at a Public Hearing next Tuesday January 30th. Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, with the support of […]
From the New York Sun Mural Could Be in for Hollywood EndingBY GARY SHAPIRO – Staff Reporter of the SunJanuary 26, 2007URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/47431 A wavy 45-foot-long abstract mural that adorned the lobby of a movie theater across from Bloomingdale’s is the topic of negotiation between a City Council member and the theater operator, according to […]
Let’s just get this straight, the community board is swift to ask the City to step in to buy the playground, but wants more time to deliberate on the proposed landmark designation? From the Queens Times-Ledger 01/25/2007Playground cut from Sunnyside plan By Adam Pincus A playground in Sunnyside Gardens that was included in an earlier […]
OK, for those readers just tuning in – being calendared means the LPC is seriously, seriously considering designation and the property actually does achieve a small modicum of protection. This list is astonishing in its variety – including a number of Modern landmarks that people have been advocating for years, a number of Staten Island […]
Despite NYC being covered by 4 local papers and literally dozens of weekly community papers, it is sometimes mind-boggling how difficult it is to generate interest on local community preservation happenings in traditional media outlets. Of course once you get interest from the press, getting a clear take on a preservation story is another thing […]
From Flatbush Life 01/25/2007 Neighbors push for new zoning regulation to safeguard community By Helen Klein To that end, Community Board 17 will be holding a public hearing on rezoning the neighborhood on Thursday, January 25, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at St Paul’s United Methodist Church auditorium, 3714 Avenue D. “We are having […]
