Immigrant Success and Philanthropy Wednesday, April 22, 6:00 p.m. Please meet at the northwest corner of East 88th St. and Lexington Ave. FRIENDS invites you to celebrate Mayor Bloomberg’s Immigrant Heritage Week in Yorkville. Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Irish and Jewish Europeans all settled in Yorkville in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. […]
Immigrant Success and Philanthropy Wednesday, April 22, 6:00 p.m. Please meet at the northwest corner of East 88th St. and Lexington Ave. FRIENDS invites you to celebrate Mayor Bloomberg’s Immigrant Heritage Week in Yorkville. Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Irish and Jewish Europeans all settled in Yorkville in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. […]
HDC would like to take alert you to a preservation emergency in Brooklyn’s 40th Council District. Specifically, this issue relates to the proposed Ocean on the Park Historic District, which had a public hearing at the Landmarks Preservation Commission in March 2009. Support of this small district has been overwhelmingly supportive, and I want to […]
Paving Over History (View the 4 minute short film here) Historian David McCullough calls for a halt to construction plans near the Brooklyn Bridge, which he says would obscure the monument and damage a forgotten historical site nearby. Brooklyn, NY, April 10 2009 – The Brooklyn Bridge is in critical condition of losing its life […]
Hot on the heels of the WEPS team’s recent application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission comes this exciting lecture at the Met! ——————————– Christopher Gray, an architectural historian and writes the weekly “Streetscapes” column in The New York Times. New York’s West End Avenue was thought to be the poor relation of Riverside Drive—a leftover […]
Hot on the heels of the WEPS team’s recent application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission comes this exciting lecture at the Met! ——————————– Christopher Gray, an architectural historian and writes the weekly “Streetscapes” column in The New York Times. New York’s West End Avenue was thought to be the poor relation of Riverside Drive—a leftover […]
A Panel Discussion 536 LaGuardia Place Free for GVSHP & AIA Members; $20 all others Reservations required. RSVP to [email protected] or (212) 475-9585 ext. 35 Join moderator and Director of Research and Education at the World Monuments Fund Erica Avrami on this panel tackling the various conflicts and commonalities that exist between preserving buildings and […]
A Panel Discussion 536 LaGuardia Place Free for GVSHP & AIA Members; $20 all others Reservations required. RSVP to [email protected] or (212) 475-9585 ext. 35 Join moderator and Director of Research and Education at the World Monuments Fund Erica Avrami on this panel tackling the various conflicts and commonalities that exist between preserving buildings and […]
From The New York Times This Old Wasteful House by Richard Moe NEVER before has America had so many compelling reasons to preserve the homes in its older residential neighborhoods. We need to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. We want to create jobs, and revitalize the neighborhoods where millions of Americans live. All of […]
Rosie be a love – SAVE THE PAVILION! Wed, April 8, 2009 5:30-6:30 pm Union Sq. Park (North side) The injunction preventing construction on the Union Square Pavilion was lifted by Judge Deborah Solomon on March 31, 2009. Construction of Union Square Partnership’s tablecloth restaurant will now proceed as planned. This is very disappointing news […]
