Preservationists fight for historic P.S. 186 from the Columbia Spectator By Kim Kirschenbaum Published Friday 22 January 2010. Walter South is trying to save a historic building, but a complex bureaucracy is stopping him at every turn. South, chair of Community Board 9’s Landmarks & Preservation Committee, mobilized local residents this month to call for […]
Preservationists fight for historic P.S. 186 from the Columbia Spectator By Kim Kirschenbaum Published Friday 22 January 2010. Walter South is trying to save a historic building, but a complex bureaucracy is stopping him at every turn. South, chair of Community Board 9’s Landmarks & Preservation Committee, mobilized local residents this month to call for […]
From David Freeland: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 6:30 PM “The Vanishing City: Losing the Fun,” Dixon Place Theater lounge, 161A Chrystie St. This is going to be a panel discussion related to issues of preservation and the city’s disappearing entertainment architecture, featuring myself (David Freeland) and three others: Andrew Dolkart of Columbia University (many of […]
From David Freeland: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 6:30 PM “The Vanishing City: Losing the Fun,” Dixon Place Theater lounge, 161A Chrystie St. This is going to be a panel discussion related to issues of preservation and the city’s disappearing entertainment architecture, featuring myself (David Freeland) and three others: Andrew Dolkart of Columbia University (many of […]
International Conference on Urbanism and Public Space Brought together Stakeholders and Officials from Hong Kong, Shanghai, and New York HONG KONG, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — A major conference entitled “Vertical Density, the Public Dimension: A Dialogue between Hong Kong – Shanghai – New York” was successfully held last Thursday and Friday in Hong Kong. City […]
International Conference on Urbanism and Public Space Brought together Stakeholders and Officials from Hong Kong, Shanghai, and New York HONG KONG, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — A major conference entitled “Vertical Density, the Public Dimension: A Dialogue between Hong Kong – Shanghai – New York” was successfully held last Thursday and Friday in Hong Kong. City […]
The Clyde Fitch Report has launched The Preservation Diaries, a new online column about historic preservation issues, written by author, and co-chair of the preservation campaign to protect historic Marx Brothers Place in Carnegie Hill, Susan Kathryn Hefti. The column, published twice a month, will cover a wide range of preservation issues. Mercifully, a July 2009 […]
From the West End Preservation Society: Some good news and an exhortation to keep making noise. THE NEWS: Late Thursday afternoon, Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal called WEPS to tell us about a conversation she had had with LPC earlier that day. The conversation went as follows: LPC said that the Side Street Survey is complete. An […]
This afternoon, HDC went to the Brooklyn Supreme Court to hear what’s going on with the damaged buildings in Stuyvesant Heights. At 5am on Wednesday morning, the cellar party wall connecting 329 and 331 MacDonough Street in the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District partially collapsed due to construction activity in the cellar of 329. Once the […]
This afternoon, HDC went to the Brooklyn Supreme Court to hear what’s going on with the damaged buildings in Stuyvesant Heights. At 5am on Wednesday morning, the cellar party wall connecting 329 and 331 MacDonough Street in the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District partially collapsed due to construction activity in the cellar of 329. Once the […]
