Queens
E-BULLETIN- Save New York’s Public Libraries, Save New York’s Public Parkland, Save New York!
E-BULLETIN OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL May 2013, Volume 10, Number 2 Help Save the New York Public Library from Itself Rally & Leafleting on Wednesday, May 8, 3:30pm – 5:30pm RAIN or SHINE The late Ada Louise Huxtable called it “a plan devised out of a profound ignorance of or willful [...]
What's in the new E-bulletin? A Lion, a designation & some scrabble!
Oct 25, 2011 Bulletin v4
The Bungalows of Rockaway to Air on Channel 21
Dear friends, The Bungalows of Rockaway will screen, uninterrupted, on WLIW/21, Long Island public television: Thur. Aug 4, 7 pm Sat. Aug 6th, 3 pm If you’ve not seen it yet, I hope you can catch it! all best, Jennifer Callahan Director www.thebungalowsofrockaway.com
Forgotten New York Tours Maspeth!
On Sunday, July 31st, NHS Vice President Kevin Walsh will lead a walking tour of Maspeth. Tour is starting early to beat the heat! Meet Kevin at LIRR concourse at Woodside Station at 10:30am OR at Hamilton Place and Jay Avenue at 11am if you live in the area. Tour route is here. Cost is $20 [...]
Missing Historic District Street Sign to Return to Jackson Heights
New York City’s historic districts are a heterogeneous bunch – ranging from the modest carriage houses of Shingle homes of Ditmas Park to the Beaux-Arts buildings of the Upper East Side, but most of them have at least one thing in common; terra-cotta street signs. These warm-brown signs, designed by Massimo Vignelli, are the first [...]
On Landmarking the Elridge House in Richmond Hill
Statement of the Historic Districts Council Landmakrs Preservation Commission Designation Hearing, June 28, 2011 Item 13: LP – 2473 BOROUGH OF QUEENS DANIEL ELDRIDGE HOUSE, 87-61 111TH Street The Historic Districts Council is the advocate for New York City’s designated historic districts and neighborhoods meriting preservation. Even in a neighborhood as architecturally rich as Richmond Hill, [...]
The Bungalows of Rockaway will air on Channel 13 on June 4th & 5th
The Bungalows of Rockaway will screen: Thur. May 26th, 6:30 pm, free! Tenement Museum, 103 Orchard St and on public television THIRTEEN/WNET Sat June 4 noon Sun June 5th 2:30 pm If you’ve not seen it, check out the trailer & read new comments/oral histories: http://thebungalowsofrockaway.com/index.php?/project/images–trailer/ http://thebungalowsofrockaway.com/index.php?/project/memories/
Comrie holding up designation of Jamaica Savings Bank for owner approval
From the Times Ledger 01/17/2008City in talks with owner to landmark Jamaica bankBy Ivan Pereira The City Council and the Landmarks Preservation Commission are waiting to see whether a landlord will allow his historical building in downtown Jamaica to become a city landmark.For more than 30 years, the city has been trying to make the [...]
A historic district for Ridgewood?
From the Queens Times Newsweekly (is it possible for a Queens newspaper to have an article on preservation & not talk about the Sunnyside Gardens opponents?) NEW PUSH TO PRESERVECity May Consider Landmark District In Ridgewood by Robert PozaryckiAfter a year in which homes in Sunnyside Gardens were given landmark status, civic activists in Ridgewood [...]
Jamaica Savings Bank Still Not Landmarked; Comrie Still On The Fence
Mr. Comrie knows full well that a building’s condition is not a predicating factor for landmark designation. He is underlining the politics of the situation (by implying that unless he is satisfied with LPC’s answers – he will overturn the designation) and by doing so, undercuts the landmarks process. From the Queens Chronicle Historic Jamaica [...]
