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We need your help to voice your support for the Historic Preservation Fund today!  The House of Representatives is expected to vote on the CLEAR Act, a bill to address offshore oil and gas reforms following the oil well blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico which contains a provision to fully fund the Historic Preservation […]

July 27, 2010

LPC Docket Number: 110051 Manhattan, Block: 512, Lot: 7502 599 Broadway – SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District A commercial building designed by J. Odell Whitenach and built in 1917. Application is to install storefront infill and signage. HDC Testimony The proposed storefront infill is an improvement over the existing conditions at 599 Broadway, but there are […]

July 27, 2010

LPC Docket Number: 110051 Manhattan, Block: 512, Lot: 7502 599 Broadway – SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District A commercial building designed by J. Odell Whitenach and built in 1917. Application is to install storefront infill and signage. HDC Testimony The proposed storefront infill is an improvement over the existing conditions at 599 Broadway, but there are […]

July 20, 2010

LPC Docket Number: 107888 Manhattan, Block: 587, Lot: 55 39 Barrow Street aka 70-72 7th Avenue South – Greenwich Village Historic District A rowhouse, originally built in 1828 altered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Application is to construct a stoop, modify masonry openings and the areaway, and install railings and a skylight. […]

July 20, 2010

LPC Docket Number: 107888 Manhattan, Block: 587, Lot: 55 39 Barrow Street aka 70-72 7th Avenue South – Greenwich Village Historic District A rowhouse, originally built in 1828 altered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Application is to construct a stoop, modify masonry openings and the areaway, and install railings and a skylight. […]

Free Concert in Historic Bandshell, Tuesday July 20

105th Season of Naumburg Orchestral Concerts – 3rd Concert – Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 7:30 PM  Historic Naumburg Bandshell, Concert Ground, Central Park. WQXR’s Midge Woolsey shall guest announce the concert. Tuesday, 20 July, features Time for Three performing in the third Naumburg Orchestral Concert. Time for Three appears with Zachary De Pue & Nicolas […]

July 13, 2010

LPC Docket Number: 107784 Manhattan, Block: 822, Lot: 31 156 Fifth Avenue – Ladies’ Mile Historic District A neo-Romanesque style office building designed by Rowe and Baker and built in 1894-1895. Application is to install new storefront infill and create new masonry openings within the entrance portico. HDC Testimony The storefront proposed on the Fifth […]