ALERT: Dumbo Neighborhood Association Mobilizes to Fight for Landmarking

DUMBO Neighborhood Group Takes on Power BiggiesCONCERTED MOVE TO GET LANDMARK PROTECTION“BEFORE DUMBO TURNS INTO EVERYWHERE ELSE” Faced with the continuing erosion of DUMBO’s “special character” resulting from “thoughtless demolition” and “out-of -scale construction,” neighborhood activists have launched a concerted push for landmark protection. The DUMBO Neighborhood Association (DNA) is this week organizing an advertising […]

Written by on Jan 25, 2007

ALERT: And now a word from the proponents of the N-YHS Tower….

Dear Friend, The New-York Historical Society needs your help. You may have read about our plans to update and expand the Historical Society’s Central Park West home. It is a huge undertaking that will require the help of all our supporters. But this isn’t about financial support. It’s about attending upcoming public meetings where you […]

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NEWS: Manhattan Valley has first public meeting to consider HD status

An Area of Manhattan Takes Step Toward HistoryBY GARY SHAPIRO – Staff Reporter of the SunJanuary 25, 2007URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/47372 An enclave of Rennaisance Revival and Queen Anne-style row houses along Manhattan Avenue between 104th and 106th streets in Manhattan may be designated a historic district. The area took its first steps toward designation last night […]

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NEWS: Yet Another Sunnyside Landmarking Meeting Held

From the Queens Gazette Second Sunnyside Gardens Landmarks Meeting Held BY THOMAS COGAN Community Board 2 Chairman Joseph Conley, who ran the meeting, said there might have to be still another meeting to accommodate those who couldn’t get in… The latest Sunnyside Gardens meeting, held in conjunction with one held in late November, convened last […]

Written by on Jan 24, 2007

NEWS: St. Ann's Sale was "a mistake"

Diocese won’t sell property BY LORE CROGHAN and LEO STANDORANew York Daily News – http://www.nydailynews.comDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Sunday, January 21st, 2007 The Archdiocese of New York insisted yesterday that none of the properties in four city parishes earmarked for closing is up for sale.But if the archdiocese were in a selling mood, experts said […]

Written by on Jan 23, 2007

NEWS: Another interview, this time with the new MTA chief

‘A new era at the MTA,’ part 2by patrick arden / metro new york JAN 23, 2007 Additional reporting by Michael P. Ventura In part two of Metro’s exclusive sit-down with Elliot “Lee” Sander, the Metropolitan Transportation?Authority’s new executive director focuses on the agency’s future, with plans for major projects such as the Second Avenue […]

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NEWS: Interview with Joe Sitt, principal of Thor Equities, developer of Coney Island & Red Hook & Albee Square & so on

From Courier-Life Exclusive with nabe’s biggest developerBy Stephen Witt01/18/2007 With much of the Coney Island amusement park area now in control of Joseph J. Sitt, the principal of Thor Equities, his company has become a major player in the redevelopment of the entire borough. Among the firm’s other holdings are the former Revere Sugar factory […]

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NEWS: Didn't we just do this on the Upper East Side?

Coming Soon: The New-York Historical Society Tower proposal….Episcopal Church Encounters Opposition to Apartment Plan in ChelseaBY GABRIELLE BIRKNER – Staff Reporter of the SunJanuary 23, 2007URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/47199 Neighbors are vowing to fight the construction of a 15-story apartment tower in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood on the campus of the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, […]

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ALERT: Landmarks Designation Hearing on January 30th

There’s a very interesting designation hearing scheduled for January 30 at the LPC which includes (among other things): 94-96 Greenwich Streets (one of our Unprotected and Under Consideration)Crotona Play Center (another one)and McCarren Pool which we have been trying to save since 1986!!!! It seems our list actually works. Note also that many of the […]

Written by on Jan 19, 2007

ALERT: South Village Landmarking Effort is On!

At the end of December, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation submitted an 80-page report to the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) proposing the designation of a South Village Historic District (see www.gvshp.org/southvillage.htm ). This 40-block area south of Washington Square Park was entirely left out of the Greenwich Village Historic District in 1969, […]

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