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expanding historic district boundaries
In 2003, HDC has reviewed all the existing
NYC historic districts to determine if the streets immediately surrounding
the designated district retained the same integrity of historic
architecture. The resulting survey, published here, reveals often
they do: Designated historic districts are almost invariably smaller
than their historic neighborhoods, sometimes so much so that several
blocks of intact historic buildings are left in jeopardy.
HDC's Boundaries project consists of two sections:
The following examples represent
some of the most vivid cases of the “under-designation”
dilemma. Their boundaries were too narrowly and arbitrarily drawn
to provide full protection for the traditional neighborhoods:
One example illustrates how the Landmarks Preservation Commission
successfully expanded an under-designated historic district
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Hamilton Heights/
Sugar Hill
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