The Governor and Senate and Assembly have separately proposed two NYS tax credit deferral programs, impacting 30 state tax credits, ranging from the rehabilitation (preservation) tax credit programs to the low income housing tax credit, green building tax credit, and brownfields programs, among others. The most recent proposal from the NYS Assembly and Senate […]
Preservation Vs. Progress In Fight Over Harlem School P.S. 186 hasn’t operated for decades, but opponents of a redevelopment plan say the structure’s historic façade is worth saving. http://www.citylimits.org/news/articles/4083/preservation-vs-progress-in-fight-over-harlem-school
From the Committee to Preserve the Morningside Brownstones Contact: Harry Schwartz, 212-666-2248, [email protected] Nancy Nereo, 917-952-6064, [email protected] COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEMOLISHES HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN THE FACE OF UNITED OPPOSITION June 25, 2010. Impervious to the repeated requests of elected officials, community organizations and preservation groups, Columbia University is presently demolishing three important historic brownstones—numbers 408, 410 […]
From the Committee to Preserve the Morningside Brownstones Contact: Harry Schwartz, 212-666-2248, [email protected] Nancy Nereo, 917-952-6064, [email protected] COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEMOLISHES HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN THE FACE OF UNITED OPPOSITION June 25, 2010. Impervious to the repeated requests of elected officials, community organizations and preservation groups, Columbia University is presently demolishing three important historic brownstones—numbers 408, 410 […]
LPC Docket Number: 108711 Manhattan, Block: 1385, Lot: 1 1 East 70th Street, Frick House – Individual Landmark, Upper East Side Historic District A French Louis XVI style mansion designed by Carrere & Hastings, built in 1913-14 and altered by John Russell Pope in 1931-35. Application is to enclose a loggia. HDC Testimony HDC congratulates […]
LPC Docket Number: 108711 Manhattan, Block: 1385, Lot: 1 1 East 70th Street, Frick House – Individual Landmark, Upper East Side Historic District A French Louis XVI style mansion designed by Carrere & Hastings, built in 1913-14 and altered by John Russell Pope in 1931-35. Application is to enclose a loggia. HDC Testimony HDC congratulates […]
No, I am NOT the Borough Historian. By Jeffrey A. Kroessler I applied to be the borough historian of Queens because I thought, oddly enough, that the post should be held by an urban historian. After all, I earned a Ph.D. in urban history, and my dissertation was a history of Queens. I authored the […]
JUNE 22 | 6:30 PM|DAVID FREELAND Automats, Taxi Dances and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattans Lost Places of Leisure In Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure (2009), author David Freeland excavates the city’s cultural history and uncovers skeletons of New York’s lost monuments to its nightlife. With a keen eye for architectural detail, […]
Thursday • July 29 • 6:30 PM The Bungalows of Rockaway: Film Screening at the Museum of the City of New York The New York City premiere of “The Bungalows of Rockaway,” a documentary that takes a modest subject — the small, affordable bungalows that once covered the Rockaway peninsula — and reveals larger themes of this singular story: working class leisure, public […]
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2010 from 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm: FUNDRAISER FOR THE RENOVATION OF WEST PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Desserts provided. Location: The Community Room of the Belnord, enter at 225 West 86 Street, Manhattan, and you will be directed across the courtyard past the fountain to the entrance on Hall 5 where the Community […]
