E-BULLETIN-Come Get A Taste of New Amsterdam Market At This Years Grassroots Awards!!
E-BULLETIN OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL
May 2013, Volume 10, Number 7
Historic Districts Council 2013 Grassroots Preservation Awards and Annual Preservation Party
Date: Thursday May 23, 2013
Location: Village Community School, 272 W 10th St New York, NY 10014
Time: 6:30 pm
Click here to read more or purchase tickets!!
Highlighted 2013 Grassroots Awards Recipient: Robert LaValva – New Amsterdam Market
and Vendors!
Robert LaValva created the New Amsterdam Market, an organization with a mission to incubate a new and growing economic sector—small businesses such as butchers, grocers, mongers and other vendors who source, produce, distribute and sell foods made with regional ingredients as well as carefully selected imports and to do so where the city’s market history began, at the foot of the Fulton Street on the East River. Join the Grassroots Preservation Awards this Thursday for a culinary experience as vendors from the New Amsterdam Market serve their delicious treats. Joining us from the New Amsterdam Market will be:
This year’s Grassroots Awards recipients are:
• The Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project
• New Amsterdam Market’s Robert LaValva
• NYC Parks advocate Geoffrey Croft
• NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan
• The Aquinas Honor Society of the Immaculate Conception School
• Friend in High Places: Council Member Stephen Levin of Brooklyn’s 33rd District
• Friend from the Media Award: The Tribeca Trib.
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Knowledge of the Future: The Changing Face of New York City’s Public Library Systems
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
6pm
Steelcase, 4 Columbus Circle #2, Manhattan
Free. To rsvp, contact hdc@hdc.org. Space is limited.
Despite recent record increases in library attendance usage citywide, the three New York City library systems have been systematically starved for financial resources and forced to make hard choices in their plans for the future. From the proposed sales of the Pacific Branch Library and Cadman Plaza Library in Brooklyn, to the radical intervention proposed for the 42nd Street Research Library and the recently revealed plans for a smaller library to replace the demolished Donnell Library in Midtown Manhattan, the library system has been radically transforming the use and form of its public property.
Join our panel of experts as they discuss a number of plans currently in the works for New York City libraries, and what it might bode for the future of America’s largest public system. Invited speakers include: Dr. Jeffrey Kroessler, Librarian and Urban Historian, John Jay College, Scott Sherman, contributing writer and editor, The Nation, and David Giles, Research Director at the Center for an Urban Future.
Special thanks to Steelcase for hosting this event.
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WORLD FAIR – A documentary and discussion with the filmmaker and a special guest historian
Wednesday – June 12th at the Neighborhood Preservation Center 232 East 11th Street
6-7:30pm
Cost: $5 – Space is limited and you must rsvp for the event
VIEW a trailer of the film on their website HERE!
WORLD FAIR is a new documentary film that celebrates personal memory, innovative architecture, and amateur cinematography through a singular, spectacular event: the 1939 New York World’s Fair. On the heels of the Great Depression and with war mounting overseas, millions of people traveled to a former ash dump in Queens, New York, to catch a fleeting glimpse of a better future. WORLD FAIR weaves together the impressionistic memories of former fairgoers—now in their eighties and nineties—with vibrant archival footage, transporting viewers to the futuristic and hopeful realm of the 1939 New York World’s Fair. As a meditation on the ways we remember and preserve the past, WORLD FAIR explores the stories contained in photographs and home movies, in illustrations, and in the objects we collect and save. WORLD FAIR premiered in April at the 2013 Independent Film Festival Boston, where it won the Audience Award for Best Short Film.
Filmmaker Bio:
Amanda Murray (director/producer, WORLD FAIR) is a filmmaker with the independent documentary production company Wicked Delicate Films in Brooklyn, NY. Trained in public history and humanities, she was a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, and has worked with the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, National Building Museum, and National Trust for Historic Preservation. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from the College of William and Mary, and an M.A. in Public Humanities from Brown University. WORLD FAIR is her first film and premiered at the 2013 Independent Film Festival Boston, where it won the Audience Award for Best Short Film. Amanda is a producer of the forthcoming documentary films THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO, MISSING MODERNIST, and THE GREENING OF QATAR.
RSVP TO ashedd@hdc.org
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June 3
8:30 – 10:00 AM
The Department of City Planning’s mission is to promote strategic growth, transit-oriented development and sustainable communities, in part by initiating comprehensive, consensus-based planning and zoning changes for individual neighborhoods and business districts, as well as establishing policies and zoning regulations applicable citywide. It supports the City Planning Commission and each year reviews more than 500 land use applications for actions such as zoning changes and disposition of City property.
Carolyn Grossman, Director of Governmental Affairs, will speak about the many facets of the Department’s work, including a discussion of what zoning is, how the process works, and how the Department uses it to achieve changes in the city’s built character. This discussion will include a variety of case studies involving zoning and other initiatives in recent years. Ms. Grossman will address attendees’ questions on a range of topics, so come prepared to engage in a discussion centered on your inquiries and concerns.
These events are FREE, but reservations are required. For more information on this series or to RSVP, please contact Barbara Zay at bzay@hdc.org or 212-614-9107.
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Have you been wondering how you’re going to explore and discover this great city over the summer? Well here’s your answer!
Join HDC on our fantastic walking/ bike tours of the Six To Celebrate neighborhoods. The tours will run from May through October.
BIKE TOUR (north Bronx loop) les by Richard Gans, Bronx bike advocate
Saturday, June 15, 9:30AM
Bronx Parks System, The Bronx ; Rocking Stone, Bronx Park, about 1895
photo credit : JFGryphon, Flickr
In 1888, more than four thousand acres was designated as parkland in The Bronx in anticipation of New York City’s northern growth. This enormous public investment guided the development and planning of the borough to become a livable place for people of modest means. Please join us for two bike tours of the magnificent parks that have shaped The Bronx since their conception 125 years ago. The first will explore the parks of the northern Bronx, beginning with a visit to the Van Cortlandt Mansion at Van Cortlandt Park and meandering eastward to Pelham Bay Park with stops at the Valentine-Varian House, the Bronx River Forest and the Bartow Pell Mansion. The second will explore the parks in the south, including Bronx Park, Crotona Park and St. Mary’s Park. Bikes will not be provided.
For more information about the tours click here
For information about the 2013 STC click here
For information about the STC program click here
Don’t forget we have the 2012Walking Tour Brochures are now available for sale on our website!!!!
Only $10 for all six brochures (shipping included).
To purchase the brochures click here.
Six to Celebrate is generously supported by The New York Community Trust. Support for the Six to Celebrate Tours and walking tour brochures is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional support is provided by Councilmembers Margaret Chin, Inez Dickens, Vincent Gentile, Daniel Garodnick, Stephen Levin and Rosie Mendez.
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If you’re receiving this, then you know that HDC is working hard throughout the city to protect and preserve the neighborhoods which make New York great. Please consider contributing and becoming part of the movement to preserve our city’s irreplaceable architecture and history. There are a lot of buildings to cover, and we can only do it with a lot of people.
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E-BULLETIN- MidCentury architecture panel & Rally to Save Mary Help of Christians Church!!
E-BULLETIN OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL
May 2013, Volume 10, Number 6
Date: Tuesday, May 21
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: 641 Avenue of the Americas, 8th Floor
To RSVP for the event please contact: abobman@cookfox.com by 5/17
*note: if you are unable to make it by 5pm you can arrive at 5:30 for the second half of the presentation without disrupting the event.
Please join us at the offices of COOKFOX and Terrapin Bright Green for a presentation of “MidCentury (un)Modern”, a provocative analysis of the 1958-73 office building. Bill Browning and Bob Fox, two of Terrapin’s co-founders, will discuss Terrapin’s in-depth investigation into the first generation Manhattan glass curtain wall and the report’s conclusions. The presentation will be followed with a discussion moderated by Simeon Bankoff, HDC Executive Directo, Peg Breen, President, New York Landmarks Conservancy and Nina Rappaport, Vice-President Docomomo NY/Tri-state.
Motivated by PlaNYC 2030 and the understanding that there needs to be a focus on deep retrofits of existing buildings Terrapin undertook a study into retrofitting a specific class of midcentury single glazed hi-rise buildings. We encourage you to read the full report HERE!
Terrapin is a consulting and strategic planning group helping clients think differently about environmental strategy, policy, and related opportunities. Bill Browning is one of the green building and real estate industry’s foremost thinkers and strategists, and an advocate for sustainable design solutions at all levels of business, government, and civil society. Bob Fox is also a founding partner of renowned sustainable architecture firm COOKFOX Architects and a highly respected leader in the green building movement.
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If you’re receiving this, then you know that HDC is working hard throughout the city to protect and preserve the neighborhoods which make New York great. Please consider contributing and becoming part of the movement to preserve our city’s irreplaceable architecture and history. There are a lot of buildings to cover, and we can only do it with a lot of people.
Sign up to receive our emails.
E-BULLETIN: A Plethora of Preservation Programs!!
E-BULLETIN OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL
May 2013, Volume 10, Number 5
Tomorrow:
Exclusive tour of
Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street Brooklyn, NY 11232
Twilight Tour and Catacomb Visit
Thursday, May 16th 5:30 to 8pm
Admission: $50/$75
Two is better than one on this exclusive joint tour with members of the Historic Districts Council and the Green-Wood Historic Fund. Among Green-Wood’s stunning spring landscape, mix and mingle with fellow members and some Green-Wood and HDC staff at an intimate outdoor reception.
After a drink and a snack, embark on a twilight tour with Green-Wood Historian Jeff Richman. You’ll enjoy the many fascinating sites and stories of Green-Wood’s 478 acres, including the stunning sculpture of New York mayor (among other vocations) DeWitt Clinton, the recently rediscovered Zouave Boy inside the Anderson Mausoleum, and gorgeous bronzes by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in collaboration with Stanford White. You’ll take in Green-Wood’s rolling hills and spring blooms at dusk, and even get a chance to enter the catacombs, an area closed to the public.
Please call 212.614.9107 or click here to RSVP for this special event.
Sponsored in part by and all images © of:
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Historic Districts Council 2013 Grassroots Preservation Awards and Annual Preservation Party
Date: Thursday May 23, 2013
Location: Village Community School, 272 W 10th St New York, NY 10014
Time: 6:30 pm
Click hereto read more or purchase tickets!!
This year’s Grassroots Awards recipients are:
• The Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project
• New Amsterdam Market’s Robert LaValva
• NYC Parks advocate Geoffrey Croft
• NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan
• The Aquinas Honor Society of the Immaculate Conception School
• Friend in High Places: Council Member Stephen Levin of Brooklyn’s 33rd District
• Friend from the Media Award: The Tribeca Trib.
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Week of May 13 – Highlighted 2013 Grassroots Awards Recipient:
Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project (MARP)
Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project (MARP) was established in 1999 to reinvigorate the Myrtle Avenue business corridor within the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Fort Greene, Wallabout and Clinton Hill. Working with residents, business owners and city officials, MARP has successfully brought new life and energy to this once-neglected commercial avenue. As part of their holistic mission of preservation and community development, MARP also works with the residential and formerly industrial neighborhoods bordering the Brooklyn Navy Yard to preserve and enhance their historic character while encouraging better services and resources for their residents. Their efforts have resulted in a successful campaign to designate the Wallabout National Register District as well as a smaller local city-designated historic district, in partnership with the Historic Wallabout Association. Successes also include MARP’s façade and storefront design grant program for commercial properties, as well as, most recently, producing the Wallabout Homeowner’s Preservation Manual to help residents better care for their historic properties.
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Date: Tuesday, May 21
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: 641 Avenue of the Americas, 8th Floor
To RSVP for the event please contact: abobman@cookfox.com by 5/17
*note: if you are unable to make it by 5pm you can arrive at 5:30 for the second half of the presentation without disrupting the event.
Please join us at the offices of COOKFOX and Terrapin Bright Green for a presentation of “MidCentury (un)Modern”, a provocative analysis of the 1958-73 office building. Bill Browning and Bob Fox, two of Terrapin’s co-founders, will discuss Terrapin’s in-depth investigation into the first generation Manhattan glass curtain wall and the report’s conclusions. The presentation will be followed with a discussion moderated by Simeon Bankoff, HDC Executive Directo, Peg Breen, President, New York Landmarks Conservancy and Nina Rappaport, Vice-President Docomomo NY/Tri-state.
Motivated by PlaNYC 2030 and the understanding that there needs to be a focus on deep retrofits of existing buildings Terrapin undertook a study into retrofitting a specific class of midcentury single glazed hi-rise buildings. We encourage you to read the full report HERE!
Terrapin is a consulting and strategic planning group helping clients think differently about environmental strategy, policy, and related opportunities. Bill Browning is one of the green building and real estate industry’s foremost thinkers and strategists, and an advocate for sustainable design solutions at all levels of business, government, and civil society. Bob Fox is also a founding partner of renowned sustainable architecture firm COOKFOX Architects and a highly respected leader in the green building movement.
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~Cultural Medallion Celebrates the Life of a Pioneer of Music~
Date: This Thursday, May 16, 2013
Time: 3:45pm
Location: 312 West 77th Street, between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive, Manhattan
On May 16 the Historic Landmarks Preservation Center will unveil a new cultural medallion to jazz legend Miles Davis. HDC is pleased to co-sponsor this event. The ceremony will take place at 312 West 77th Street, where Davis lived and recorded for 23 years. Renowned participants and performers at the program include Phil Schaap, Ron Carter, George Coleman, Jimmy Cobb, Gary Bartz, James Mtume, Al Foster, Wallace Roney, Jimmy Heath, and the Harlem School of the Arts Advanced Jazz Combo. Come join us for this free and fun event!
Image © http://www.htbackdrops.com
About the Cultural Medallion Program
The Cultural Medallions are a program of the Historic Landmarks Preservation Center. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Chair of the HLPC, created the Cultural Medallions program, and will lead the ceremonies. The HLPC has installed close to 100 medallions around the city to heighten public awareness of the cultural and social history of New York City.
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Join our colleague group, The New York Landmarks Conservancy for their annual Sacred Sites Open House Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, May 18th and 19th. Nearly 100 historic houses of worship are participating throughout New York State. To find an open house near you, download the participant list from the Conservancy’s website.
Visit many of these landmarked and significant religious spaces and learn more about how they contribute to the architectural, historic and cultural fabric of neighborhoods citywide!
For more information go to: http://www.nylandmarks.org/events/sacred_sites_open_house/sacred_sites_open_house2013/
Or click here to download the NYC-based sites that will be open.
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Have you been wondering how you’re going to explore and discover this great city over the summer? Well here’s your answer!
Join HDC on our fantastic walking/ bike tours of the Six To Celebrate neighborhoods. The tours will run from May through October.
BIKE TOUR (north Bronx loop) les by Richard Gans, Bronx bike advocate
Saturday, June 15, 9:30AM
Bronx Parks System, The Bronx ; Rocking Stone, Bronx Park, about 1895
photo credit : JFGryphon, Flickr
In 1888, more than four thousand acres was designated as parkland in The Bronx in anticipation of New York City’s northern growth. This enormous public investment guided the development and planning of the borough to become a livable place for people of modest means. Please join us for two bike tours of the magnificent parks that have shaped The Bronx since their conception 125 years ago. The first will explore the parks of the northern Bronx, beginning with a visit to the Van Cortlandt Mansion at Van Cortlandt Park and meandering eastward to Pelham Bay Park with stops at the Valentine-Varian House, the Bronx River Forest and the Bartow Pell Mansion. The second will explore the parks in the south, including Bronx Park, Crotona Park and St. Mary’s Park. Bikes will not be provided.
For more information about the tours click here
For information about the 2013 STC click here
For information about the STC program click here
Don’t forget we have the 2012Walking Tour Brochures are now available for sale on our website!!!!
Only $10 for all six brochures (shipping included).
To purchase the brochures click here.
Six to Celebrate is generously supported by The New York Community Trust. Support for the Six to Celebrate Tours and walking tour brochures is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional support is provided by Councilmembers Margaret Chin, Inez Dickens, Vincent Gentile, Daniel Garodnick, Stephen Levin and Rosie Mendez.
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If you’re receiving this, then you know that HDC is working hard throughout the city to protect and preserve the neighborhoods which make New York great. Please consider contributing and becoming part of the movement to preserve our city’s irreplaceable architecture and history. There are a lot of buildings to cover, and we can only do it with a lot of people.
Sign up to receive our emails.
tel: 212-614-9107 fax: 212-614-9127 email:hdc@hdc.org
The New York Landmarks Conservancy Sacred Sites Open House Weekend
Events Galore!
E-BULLETIN OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL
May 2013, Volume 10, Number 3
Please join the Historic Districts Council along with the Green-Wood Historic Fund for an exclusive event for the Friends of HDC
Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street Brooklyn, NY 11232
Twilight Tour and Catacomb Visit
Thursday, May 16th 5:30 to 8pm
Admission: $50/$75
Two is better than one on this exclusive joint tour with members of the Historic Districts Council and the Green-Wood Historic Fund. Among Green-Wood’s stunning spring landscape, mix and mingle with fellow members and some Green-Wood and HDC staff at an intimate outdoor reception.
After a drink and a snack, embark on a twilight tour with Green-Wood Historian Jeff Richman. You’ll enjoy the many fascinating sites and stories of Green-Wood’s 478 acres, including the stunning sculpture of New York mayor (among other vocations) DeWitt Clinton, the recently rediscovered Zouave Boy inside the Anderson Mausoleum, and gorgeous bronzes by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in collaboration with Stanford White. You’ll take in Green-Wood’s rolling hills and spring blooms at dusk, and even get a chance to enter the catacombs, an area closed to the public.
Please call 212.614.9107 or click here to RSVP for this special event.
Sponsored in part by and all images © of:
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Have you been wondering how you’re going to explore and discover this great city over the summer? Well here’s your answer!
Join HDC on our fantastic walking/ bike tours of the Six To Celebrate neighborhoods. The tours will run from May through October.
TOMORROW – SPACES STILL AVAILABLE!!
Harrison Street, Staten Island
BUS/WALKING TOUR led by Barnett Shepherd, architectural historian
Saturday, May 11, 10:30AM
The Mud Lane Society for the Renaissance of Stapleton, 53 Harrison Street
Visit Staten Island’s next historic district! Down the hill from the stately Stapleton Heights historic district, the “Stapleton Nook” is a charming enclave of eclectic 19th century houses, built largely for workers in Staten Island’s busy transit hubs, A rare example of historic rowhouse architecture on the Island, Harrison Street is currently under consideration by the Landmarks Commission as the borough’s fourth historic district.
The tour will visit both Stapleton historic districts and time permitting, the beautiful Alice Austen House Museum and Fort Wadsworth.
For more information about the tours click here
For information about the 2013 STC click here
For information about the STC program click here
Don’t forget we have the 2012Walking Tour Brochures are now available for sale on our website!!!!
Only $10 for all six brochures (shipping included).
To purchase the brochures click here.
Six to Celebrate is generously supported by The New York Community Trust. Support for the Six to Celebrate Tours and walking tour brochures is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional support is provided by Councilmembers Margaret Chin, Inez Dickens, Vincent Gentile, Daniel Garodnick, Stephen Levin and Rosie Mendez.
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Presentation on Greening NYC’s Historic Buildings: Green Rowhouse Manual
Please join us on Wednesday, May 15, at 9:00 AM, for our presentation and discussion of Greening NYC’s Historic Buildings: Green Rowhouse Manual, published by MAS, in partnership with the Landmarks Preservation Commission and researched and written by Terrapin Bright Green and COOKFOX Architects.
During this program, we will talk about the overarching reasons for creating the manual—the first of its kind in the city—as well as offer specific advice for owners interested in improving the energy efficiency of their rowhouses without compromising distinctive architectural features.
Speakers include: Amanda Lehman, LEED AP, Associate COOKFOX Architects
Michael Kreigh, RA, LEED AP, Certified Passive House Consultant
Renee Epps, Chief Officer for Facilities, Henry Street Settlement
Cory Herrala, Senior Technical Advisor, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
This event is presented by The Municipal Art Society of New York and co-sponsored by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, The New York Landmarks Conservancy, Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, and the Historic Districts Council.
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Historic Districts Council 2013 Grassroots Preservation Awards and Annual Preservation Party
Date: Thursday May 23, 2013
Location: Village Community School, 272 W 10th St New York, NY 10014
Time: 6:30 pm
This year’s Grassroots Awards recipients are:
• The Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project
• New Amsterdam Market’s Robert LaValva
• NYC Parks advocate Geoffrey Croft
• NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan
• The Aquinas Honor Society of the Immaculate Conception School
• Friend in High Places: Council Member Stephen Levin of Brooklyn’s 33rd District
• Friend from the Media Award: The Tribeca Trib.
Week of May 6th – Highlighted 2013 Grassroots Awards Recipients:
The NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan (NYUFASP)
NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan
NYUFASP: is a group of more than 400 New York University faculty members who are fighting the University’s proposed multi-billion-dollar expansion in Greenwich Village. Among other potentially destructive elements, the proposal includes demolishing the award-winning Sasaki Garden at Washington Square Village to build almost two million square feet of mixed-use space in this National Register-eligible mid-century apartment complex. The group believes the plan is financially and institutionally reckless and will only serve to further erode the physical character of Greenwich Village. In 2012 the City Council voted to approve the zoning changes necessary to enact the NYU plan, and in response NYUFASP put together a legal action challenging the decision, which is currently being deliberated in the courts.
Click hereto read more or purchase tickets!!
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If you’re receiving this, then you know that HDC is working hard throughout the city to protect and preserve the neighborhoods which make New York great. Please consider contributing and becoming part of the movement to preserve our city’s irreplaceable architecture and history. There are a lot of buildings to cover, and we can only do it with a lot of people.
Sign up to receive our emails.
tel: 212-614-9107 fax: 212-614-9127 email:hdc@hdc.org
