From the Downtown Brooklyn Star:http://www.brooklyndowntownstar.com/StoryDisplay.asp?PID=4&NewsStoryID=4502 Dateline : Thursday, September 14, 2006By Nik Kovac“They called me crazy when I took the job,” smiled Patricia Lancaster in a passing moment of joviality during two-plus hours of tense testimony. The Department of Buildings (DOB) commissioner was responding to some grudging praise from the state legislators who were grilling […]
AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND NATIONAL MONUMENT –PARTICIPATE IN ONE OF OUR PUBLIC MEETINGS- Friday, September 22, 2006 Day Location: U.S. Custom House, 1 Bowling Green, AuditoriumTime: 2-4 p.m. Evening Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X BoulevardTime: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday, September 23, 2006 Location: Ted Weiss Federal Building, 290 Broadway, 30th FloorTime: […]
From Crain’s:http://newyorkbusiness.com/news.cms?newsId=14732 Governors Island proposals to be trashedby Anne MichaudSeptember 13, 2006Insiders say that the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corp. plans to throw out all the master-plan redevelopment bids it received. Insiders say that the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corp. plans to throw out all the master-plan bids it received to redevelop the […]
The Landmarks Preservation Commission is holding a public hearing on the proposed designation of the Crown Heights North Historic District next Tuesday, September 19, 2006, beginning at 9:30 a.m. The hearing will take place at the Commission’s offices at 1 Centre Street, 9th Floor North in Manhattan. Any information you can provide about the district’s […]
Rare 17th Century Dutch Paintings, Furniture, and Household Objects The Exhibit Opens on Sunday, September 17, 1 – 4 PMALL WELCOME When we cast our eyes upon Alice Austen’s magnificent gingerbread home, we seldom realize that this Victorian Gothic gem, in fact, traces its roots to a 1690s one-room farmhouse built during the time the […]
http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/451814p-380255c.html Hot off the web and news stands…Mic spoke to Melissa Grace at the NYDN after returning home from the BSA yesterday. Great piece, covering one of the tenets CCGH supported from Day 1: preserving the view from Battle Hill. A close second after the #1 need for the rezoning. This final BSA appeal and […]
This morning, Tuesday Sept. 12, in its last decision stemming from the South Park Slope/Greenwood Heights 2005 rezoning, New York’s Board of Standards and Appeals unanimously voted to NOT GRANT the BZY vesting application of the developer of 614 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, aka “The Minerva Building.” After two re-openings of this case and four hearings […]
UPDATE: Last Thursday’s meeting of the Landmark Committee of City Council was successful. The Committee voted unanimously to designate old PS 64, former Charas, as a City Landmark. Thank you for taking time to attend the hearing !! Your presence and support was crucial – as you could sense in the Committee room. Gregg Singer, […]
AMSTERDAM HOUSES AND THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC HOUSING ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORKA Lecture by Francis MorronePresented in collaboration with the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street YTuesday, September 26, 2006, at 6:30 p.m. Built in 1947 and designed by Grosvenor Atterbury, Arthur C. Holden and Harvey Wiley Corbett, the Amsterdam Houses on Amsterdam Avenue between […]
From Aaron Brashear–Concerned Citizens of Greenwood [email protected] Just got back from today’s BSA’s executive session. I was there to hear the final review for tomorrow’s decision on 614 7th Ave’s vesting application. There were few words said, but they pertained to the applicant’s attorneys’ submission of the supposedly revised “mystery 09.01.05 plans.” The DOB has […]
