Stoop, Synagogue, Soapbox Thursday, August 20 at 7 PM Are you ready to rumble? During this neighborhood walking tour, enter the ring of early 20th-century Lower East Side politics when this densely populated area fostered an array of competing ideologies. Visit the spaces where pious Jews, secular firebrands, capitalist businessmen and impoverished peddlers faced […]
Stoop, Synagogue, Soapbox Thursday, August 20 at 7 PM Are you ready to rumble? During this neighborhood walking tour, enter the ring of early 20th-century Lower East Side politics when this densely populated area fostered an array of competing ideologies. Visit the spaces where pious Jews, secular firebrands, capitalist businessmen and impoverished peddlers faced […]
From Ed Jaworski, Exec. VP, Madison-Marine-Homecrest Civic Association: Several members of the board of the MMHCA met with Councilmember Lew Fidler last week to discuss neighborhood issues. Among the items was a bill soon to come before the City Council’s Committee on Housing and Building: Intro 1015-2009 (Safety and security of construction sites at which […]
From Ed Jaworski, Exec. VP, Madison-Marine-Homecrest Civic Association: Several members of the board of the MMHCA met with Councilmember Lew Fidler last week to discuss neighborhood issues. Among the items was a bill soon to come before the City Council’s Committee on Housing and Building: Intro 1015-2009 (Safety and security of construction sites at which […]
Please find attached initial brochures on the newly-expanded NYS Rehabilitation Tax Credit programs provided by the NYS Historic Preservation Office. These brochures provide the basic program information on the expanded NYS Historic Homeownership Tax Credit and the NYS Commercial (income-producing property) Tax Credit. SHPO will be producing regulations that will guide administration of the Rehabilitation […]
Please find attached initial brochures on the newly-expanded NYS Rehabilitation Tax Credit programs provided by the NYS Historic Preservation Office. These brochures provide the basic program information on the expanded NYS Historic Homeownership Tax Credit and the NYS Commercial (income-producing property) Tax Credit. SHPO will be producing regulations that will guide administration of the Rehabilitation […]
Presentation by the Department of Transportation West Side Transportation Study Findings Traffic on the West Side (W. 55th – W. 86th Streets) Central Park West to Hudson River on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at John Jay College, Gerald W. Lynch Theater 899 Tenth Avenue (between West 58th and West 59th Street) 6:00 PM to 8:00 […]
WPP Settles Lawsuit on Open Space; Community Receives a Benefit; Further Park West Village Development Plans Revealed Westsiders for Participation, Inc., has agreed to an out-of court settlement of the community lawsuit that sought to establish the legally required amount of open space in the west block of Park West Village. Counsel for the defendant, […]
Looks like a local NYC preservation campaign has spread overseas! The campaign to save the Marx Brothers’ childhood home on 93rd Street on the Upper East Side is getting some international attention! Clearly, the 93rd Street Beautification Association is on to something. So if you haven’t yet, join their efforts now by signing their petitions!
Hearing Date: 8/11/2009 LPC Docket Number: 098532 Brooklyn, Block: 301, Lot: 44 155 Warren Street – Cobble Hill Historic District A Greek Revival style rowhouse built in 1838. Application is to construct dormers at the roof. HDC Testimony While the commission has approved dormers on the front facades of similar buildings, HDC finds these proposed […]
