NEW YORK ON THE BLOCK AS THE BUILDING BOOM FALTERS, IT’S TIME TO SAVE THE CITY’S IMPERILED LANDMARKS By JULIA VITULLO-MARTIN Last updated: 3:34 pm November 29, 2008 Posted: 2:01 pm November 29, 2008 10 Buildings Worth Saving The pause in New York City’s building boom may have one side benefit: It gives everyone a […]
Ciprianis Push for Rainbow Room Landmarking by Eliot Brown | 8:50 PM December 2, 2008 This article was published in the December 8, 2008, edition of The New York Observer. Getty Images Giuseppe Cipriani. Gradually, the letters have begun to accumulate in Robert Tierney’s Lower Manhattan office. They all implore the same thing: landmark status for […]
Preserving the City An Overtaxed Agency This is the first in a series of articles examining the workings of New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. An Opaque and Lengthy Road to Landmark Status By ROBIN POGREBIN Published: November 25, 2008 Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times THE LANDMARKS CHAIRMAN “We set priorities and we can’t […]
In case you didn’t already know, the only thing currently standing in the way of the city turning our beloved Pavilion into a swanky restaurant is a court decision made by Judge Jane Solomon in April 2008. This Monday, December 8th, she will hear the city argue for the dismissal of the case. We CANNOT […]
November 29, 2008 Preserving the City, from the New York Times Preservationists See Bulldozers Charging Through a Loophole By ROBIN POGREBIN Hours before the sun came up on a cool October morning in 2006, people living near the Dakota Stables on the Upper West Side were suddenly awakened by the sound of a jackhammer. Soon […]
December 2, 2008 Preserving the City, from the New York Times Preservation and Development, Engaged in a Delicate Dance By ROBIN POGREBIN The battle lines were familiar. Churning out petitions and clamoring at hearings, hundreds of city residents had mobilized to protest a plan by St. Vincent’s Hospital to replace nine buildings in the Greenwich […]
December 1, 2008 Preserving the City, from the New York Times Houses of Worship Choosing to Avoid Landmark Status By ROBIN POGREBIN For more than 100 years the Bay Ridge United Methodist Church, with its serpentine stone and clock tower, lent a bucolic yet dignified air to the corner of Fourth and Ovington Avenues in […]
December 1, 2008 Preserving the City, from the New York Times Houses of Worship Choosing to Avoid Landmark Status By ROBIN POGREBIN For more than 100 years the Bay Ridge United Methodist Church, with its serpentine stone and clock tower, lent a bucolic yet dignified air to the corner of Fourth and Ovington Avenues in […]
Developer puts Staten Island senior housing plan on hold by Staten Island Advance Tuesday December 02, 2008, 10:43 AM The developer who owns the Kreischer Mansion is holding off building senior housing on the site until the market stabilizes. The owner of the Kreischer Mansion has delayed plans to build an active-adult community on the […]
For all you researchers out there, there’s a new digitization project that’s just been launched that may prove helpful in your research efforts: The New York 3Rs Association has launched a new digital heritage web site, www.newyorkheritage.org. The site connects more than 160 digital collections from around the state, contributed by libraries, archives, museums and […]
