E-BULLETIN OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL
May 2013, Volume 10, Number 8
Bialystoker has been Designated!!!
Thanks to the hard work of the Friends of the Lower East Side, on Tuesday May 21, 2013 the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to designate The Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged as an individual landmark. The Art Deco-style building, unusual for the Lower East Side, was designed by the architect Harry Hurwit and opened in 1931. Besides serving as a nursing home, the building was the headquarters to the city’s longest-running landsmanshaft, immigrant hometown association. The Center closed its doors in 2011, and the building was put up for sale. Now, thanks to its Landmark status, the Bialystoker Center will remain in its current state of beauty, instead of meeting the wrecking ball.
View the LPC Press Release http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/13-03_%20Bialystoker_Landmarked.pdf
Bialystoker Entryway
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Proposed South Village Historic District Phase II Calendared!!
On Tuesday May 21, 2013 the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to calendar the proposed South Village Historic District. HDC has LONG been an advocate for this historic neighborhood and our friends at the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation have been working tirelessly to insure all the historic architecture of the Village is preserved. LPC not only calendared the proposed map, but thanks to all our efforts, they expanded it including a row of ten 1840s houses at 130-148 Houston Street, NYU’s Vanderbilt Hall and Kevorkian Center at 40 and 50 Washington Square South. This is a huge success and HDC fully supports it! The public hearing is scheduled for June 25, 2013.
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