Posted on Queens Crap (to which we’re incredbily thankful for their eagle eye and patience in monitoring the flood that is Thursday’s local media coverage) Landmarking: Pro & Con From Queens Courier:Many questions — no answers (about the Broadway-Flushing landmark bid) A response from Councilman Avella: Clarifying the Constitution Letter to the Times Ledger: Why […]
Campaign To Save NYC’s Oldest Diner (Moondance):In Urgent Need of Vacant Lot For TransportMy name is Michael Perlman, and I am a preservationist who is launching an effort with the American Diner Museum, to spare NYC’s oldest extant diner, the Moondance Diner (ca. 1933 or earlier) from the wrecking ball. The diner is located in […]
MEATPACKING DISTRICT APPROVED FOR LISTING ON STATE & NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Listing Offers Prestige, Grants and Tax Breaks for Preservation of Historic Buildings; Culminates 6-Year Campaign To Preserve Historic Neighborhood by Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Manhattan – New York State Parks Commissioner Carol Ash today approved the listing of the entire […]
From Landmark West! The New-York Historical Society Plays a Real-Estate Shell Game…and the Landmarks Preservation Commission Plays Along The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is determined to hear only testimony from the New-York Historical Society at its public meeting on Tuesday, April 17 (still no time announced), despite our requests to keep the process even-handed and […]
From the Times-Ledger 04/12/2007Landmark battle intensifiesBy Adam Pincus Days before a critical public hearing, both opponents and advocates of a proposal to landmark Sunnyside Gardens are optimistic about their chances of winning the fight over creating a historic district in the tree-shaded neighborhood, but at least one political figure appears to be squirming. Miriam Allen, […]
From the Queens Tribune After Major Renovations: Home Still Deemed Historic EnoughBy THERESA JUVA Mountains of dirt, stacks of lumber and piles of pipes surround the Mosley home on 240th Street in Douglaston Hill. The lawn is barren and marked by deep tire tracks; an invisible bird whistles nearby. The construction site is quiet. A […]
From Develop Don’t Destroy BrooklynCome to a Rally Against Ratner’s “Atlantic Yards” Project—————————————-On Sunday, April 15, several neighborhood and civic groups will stage a “Rally Against Demolitions for Parking.” The rally will begin at 2 p.m., and will take place on Pacific Street, between Carlton and Vanderbilt Avenues, in Prospect Heights — within the footprint […]
From the Staten Island AdvanceHomeowner complains of preservation pervertsHe tells hearing they have peered in his windows since city said it would landmark his Tottenville property Wednesday, April 11, 2007By KAREN O’SHEAADVANCE STAFF WRITER STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Move over, Peeping Toms. A Tottenville homeowner has identified a new scourge: Preservation perverts. Douglas Ford complained […]
Preservationists Take Aim in Court At Open Records LawBY MATTHEW CHAYES – Special to the SunApril 12, 2007URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/52328 Preservationists battling a 350-year-old Upper West Side synagogue’s expansion efforts added a new wrinkle to their fight yesterday, asking a state judge to overturn what they say is a citywide ban put into place after September […]
Thanks to Curbed, we were alerted to the following link to the 500+ page report on the Duffield Street Houses/UGRR Report. http://www.nycedc.com/Web/AboutUs/FinStatementsPubReports/FinancialStatementsAndPublicReports.htm#Downtown%20Brooklyn%20Underground%20Railroad%20Report More on this soon.
