LPC Designates 4 houses and 3 pools

The Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously approved landmark status for two Federal style buildings at 486 and 488 Greenwich Street in Greenwich Village, as part of the Commission’s ongoing efforts to preserve examples of the City’s development following the Revolutionary War.Read more. Also, two Turn-of-the 20th Century French Renaissance Revival Mansions in Midtown Manhattan Earn Landmark […]

City Landmarks 3 Far West Village Buildings

from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, http://www.gvshp.org/ CITY VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO LANDMARK THREE MORE SITES IN THE FAR WEST VILLAGE THREE MORE FAR WEST VILLAGE LANDMARK DESIGNATIONS: Yesterday the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to designate three more sites as landmarks in the Far West Village — the Keller Hotel […]

More about Sunnyside Landmarking

From Metro New York A landmark or what?by amy zimmer / metro new york MAR 7, 2007 CENTRE STREET. Social critic Lewis Mumford described his Queens neighborhood of Sunnyside Gardens as “an exceptional community laid out by people who were deeply human and who gave the place a permanent expression of that humanness.” This planned […]

Items to be considered by LPC on March 6th

ITEM PROPOSED FOR DESIGNATION354 WEST 11TH STREET HOUSE, 354 West 11th Street, Manhattan.Landmark Site: Borough of Manhattan Tax Map Block 637, Lot 63.LP-2211 ITEM PROPOSED FOR DESIGNATION159 CHARLES STREET HOUSE, 159 Charles Street, ManhattanLandmark Site: Borough of Manhattan Tax Map Block 637, Lot 40 in partLP-2212 ITEM PROPOSED FOR DESIGNATIONKELLER HOTEL, 150 Barrow Street aka […]