November 2014, Volume 11, Number 1
In This Issue:
- Six to Celebrate-Atlantic Avenue Tour- November 8
- The Dilemmas of Historic Districts and Urban Design in An Era of Skyscrapers- November 15
- Six to Celebrate 2015 Applications- December 1
- Mott Haven-Port Morris Waterfront Plan- December 17
History of Atlantic Avenue Tour
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2014
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Meet at the corner of Atlantic and 4th Avenues
Join the Atlantic Avenue BID for a tour of Atlantic Avenue, one of Brooklyn’s most dynamic commercial thoroughfares for over one hundred years. This diverse retail and dining destination connects the historic neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill. Tour guide and Brooklyn native Joe Svehlak will guide us from 4th Avenue to the waterfront, discussing Atlantic Avenue’s architecture, social and commercial history, as well as areas that have been more recently redeveloped.
You may also bring cash the day of the tour
Additional Tour Dates:
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Saturday, April 11, 2015
(please register through the above link)
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The Dilemmas of Historic Districts and Urban Design in
An Era of Skyscrapers
An Evening with Authors and Architects Steven Semes and John Massengale
November 15, 2014
4:00 PM
111 Franklin Street (between West Broadway and Church)
The Historic Districts Council and Tribeca Trust will host a controversial conversation about the issues facing historic districts today. The Trust invites guests to hear from two experts on historic districts and urban design. They will unpack arguments that are at the cutting edge of architecture and urban design, all crucial for Tribeca and historic districts citywide.
The presentations will be followed by a cocktail reception, during which speakers Steven Semes, author of The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism and Historic Preservation, and John Massengale, co-author of Street Design: The Secret of Great Cities and Towns, will sign their new books.
The event is open to the architecture and design community, educational institutions and the general public.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door, subject to availability as seating capacity is limited. Advance tickets are available here at Eventbrite.
For more information contact: Lynn Ellsworth
212-732-1025, [email protected]
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HDC invites community preservation groups to apply for the 2015 Six to Celebrate program.
Deadline for the application is December 1, 2014.
The purpose of this program is to provide strategic resources to neighborhood groups at a critical moment so that they can reach their preservation goals. The program will help community activists learn to use tools such as documentation, research, zoning, landmarking, publicity, and public outreach to advance local preservation campaigns. The selected groups will receive HDC’s hands-on help strategizing and implementing all aspects of their efforts over the course of the 2015 calendar year, as well as our continued support in the years to come.
Since beginning this program in 2011, HDC has been able to help Six to Celebrate groups create two new National Register districts (the Bowery and Far Rockaway Bungalows) and three New York City historic districts (Bedford Stuyvesant, East Village/ Lower East Side and Park Avenue) with many others still in the works in all five boroughs (Bedford, Gowanus, Harrison Street, Port Morris, and Van Cortland Village). We have also assisted in leveraging more than $40,000 in private and public grants for these community-driven projects. Neighborhoods selected also get professionally-designed websites and illustrated walking tour brochures.
Click here to download the application
Please mail the application along with all requested supplemental materials.
SEND TO:
Six to Celebrate
Historic Districts Council
232 East 11th Street
New York, New York 10003
If you have any questions call 212-614-9107 or e-mail Barbara Zay
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MOTT HAVEN-PORT MORRIS WATERFRONT PLAN
COUNCIL SPEAKER MELISSA MARK-VIVERITO URGES NYS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION TO FUND THE MOTT HAVEN-PORT MORRIS WATERFRONT PLAN
The Port Morris Gantries site, one of HDC’s 2012 Six to Celebrate, is being considered as part of a plan for a waterfront park in the south Bronx! The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Region 2, which covers the 5 boroughs of New York City, held a public hearing on October 22, 2014 to discuss several projects which the agency has determined to be priorities – the Mott Haven-Port Morris Waterfront Plan being one of several in The Bronx.
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, whose district covers the Mott Haven-Port Morris Waterfront Plan, issued a statement at the hearing: “I wholeheartedly support the recommendations submitted to you by the Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) for dedication of funds from the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) within my district…MIT planners and architects worked with the community to come up with a series of recommendations for the Lincoln Avenue site to turn what is now an underutilized industrial area into a place that brings the waterfront to the community in a meaningful way, while also highlighting the growing artist community and historic waterfront buildings.”
You can submit your testimony supporting the funding of the
Mott Haven-Port Morris Waterfront Plan
until December 17th, 2014 at 4:45PM –
Click here to submit your testimony!
For more information go to the Welcome2TheBronx website
Read the Daily News Article:
“Community plan to unlock south Bronx waterfront recognized by state”