Demolition and preservation worked side by side at 211 Pearl Street in lower Manhattan On March 1st, as the buildings mysterious brickwork symbol was lifted in one piece.Mortar samples from the interior were taken for scientific analysis and may be a clue to its origins. Information and images at: http://www.historicpearlstreet.org/
It’s instructive to occasionally look beyond the 5 boroughs… From The New York Times Another Building by a Noted Modernist Comes Under Threat, This Time in BostonBy DAVID HAY BOSTON, March 1 — A plan to demolish a 1960 office tower by the influential architect Paul Rudolph threatens to pit a prominent developer backed by […]
From The New York Times Historical Society Loses Round in Fight to Renovate a Landmark By GLENN COLLINSIn a stormy two-hour meeting before 200 neighborhood residents last night, the New-York Historical Society was rebuffed by Community Board 7 in Manhattan, which resoundingly opposed the group’s proposal to renovate the exterior of its landmark building at […]
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 […]
from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, http://www.gvshp.org/ BIG CROWD RALLIES AGAINST TRUMP SOHO CONDO-HOTEL: Over 100 demonstrators,including Assemblymember Deborah Glick, City Council Zoning Subcommittee Chair Tony Avella, and representatives of City Councilmember Alan Gerson joined GVSHP, the SoHo Alliance, and more than a dozen community groups for a press conference this Sunday calling […]
March 5, 2007 Hon. George OnoratoNew York State Senate, 12th District28-11 Astoria BoulevardLong Island City, NY 11102VIA Fax: (718) 726-2036 Dear Senator Onorato, The Historic Districts Council was very dismayed to read your recent letter published in the Queens Gazette regarding the proposed designation of Sunnyside Gardens as New York City Historic District. In our […]
From Landmark West! Please do everything in your power to attend Community Board 7’s public meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, March 6, 2007, between 7:00 and 8:00 PM, at the American Bible Society (1865 Broadway at 61st Street). The full, 50-member Board will vote on the Parks & Preservation Committee’s February 8 almost unanimous resolution against the […]
A petition sent to HDC from Ron Shifffman of Pratt Institute Despite what you mat have read the fight to stop and revise Forest City Ratner’s proposals for the Vanderbilt Yards [aka Atlantic Yards] is far from over. A number of law suits have yet to be decided and the federal law suit will be […]
From the Queens Chronicle: “The crowd of Sunnyside Gardens residents who gathered this week to debate a landmark designation for their neighborhood was a bit more diverse than at past meetings on the subject — and a whole lot angrier. “ From the New York Sun: “A large group of residents in Sunnyside Gardens is […]
From some background, and another view on this, see : http://hdcvoice.blogspot.com/2007/01/d-day-report.html Douglaston Hill Resident Wants Home out of Historic DistrictBy John Tozzi03/01/2007 The city will re-evaluate whether a house belongs in the Douglaston Hill Historic District this month after the owner sued to have the home removed. But owner Kevin Mosley said his property is […]
