from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, www.gvshp.org Trump ‘Condo-Hotel’: Papers have been filed with the New York City Department of Buildings challenging the legality of the permits granted by the City for construction of the 45-story Trump ‘Condo-Hotel’ at Spring and Varick Streets. GVSHP is working closely with the SoHo Alliance and other […]
Do you love architecture, design, history and New York’s uniqueness?openhousenewyork (OHNY) Weekend celebrates New York City’s architecture and design through an annual program of public access to significant buildings and sites in all five boroughs. openhousenewyork’s mission: promotes a greater appreciation of New York City’s built-environment; a broadens public awareness by exposing a diverse audience […]
From the New York Times August 25, 2007Southeast Queens Is Split Over Makeover ProposalBy ELLEN BARRY When Gloria Black looks into Jamaica’s future, she sees a grand restoration: Department stores will move into spaces where discount jewelers sell removable gold teeth; vacant storefronts, their windows taped up with yellowing newspaper, will fill one by one. […]
From the Queens Tribune (would it kill them to get the facts straight?) First Facelift Approved For Sunnyside Gardens By MICHAEL CUSENZA After earning coveted landmark status in June, Sunnyside Gardens, one of only four Special Planned Community Preservation Districts in the City, is getting some work done. The City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously approved […]
From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle ‘Stop the Clock’ On Development, Say Carroll Gardens Residentsby Phoebe Neidl ([email protected]), published online 08-24-2007 Approximately 150 people gathered at a town hall meeting in Carroll Gardens last week to strategize on ways to shape the future of the neighborhood — a concern given some urgency by the 70-foot development […]
From the New York Times August 23, 2007Council Committee Backs Rezoning Plan to Turn Jamaica Into an ‘Airport Village’ By DIANE CARDWELL A plan to transform downtown Jamaica, Queens, into a vibrant “airport village” while preserving the quiet, low-scale character of neighboring side streets cleared an important City Council committee yesterday, all but ensuring final […]
Hot sheets yield to hot pricesBy Yvonne Jurisfor The Brooklyn Paper It was Park Slope’s bed and breakfast — minus the breakfast — and now it’s being turned into luxury condos. Workers have begun renovations to the Lincoln Plaza Hotel — a large, 120-year-old Victorian mansion on Lincoln Place that spent most of the 1980s […]
From Landmark West! Wednesday, August 15, 2007, came and went. The significance? That was the deadline imposed by the Board of Standards and Appeals in their June 15, 2007, letter to Congregation Shearith Israel (CSI). “The Board desires to process applications on a timely basis and requests that applicants notify the Board if they are […]
City now seeks ‘Railroad’ tiesBy Dana RubinsteinThe Brooklyn Paper Oh the irony: After spending more than two years preparing for the demolition of Duffield Street homes that many believe were stations on the Underground Railroad, the Bloomberg Administration now says it wants to “to commemorate abolitionist activity that occurred in Brooklyn in the 1800s.” Bloomberg […]
Has it really been two years since the 40th Anniversary of the Landmarks Law? It simultaneously feels like yesterday and twenty years ago. In any event, on the occassion of that anniversary, Gotham Gazette did an interesting series of articles on “Preservation and Progress” that really capture some of the issues of the day ~ […]
