Domino: Old and New – a talk by the Skyscraper Museum

Domino: Old and New A program on reinventing Williamsburg’s historic industrial waterfront At the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, Battery Park City Monday, June 20 from 6-7:30PM In the ongoing reinvention of Williamsburg’s richly historic industrial waterfront into a burgeoning residential neighborhood, the massive Domino Sugar complex remains the greatest challenge and opportunity. […]

Domino: Old and New – a talk by the Skyscraper Museum

Domino: Old and New A program on reinventing Williamsburg’s historic industrial waterfront At the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, Battery Park City Monday, June 20 from 6-7:30PM In the ongoing reinvention of Williamsburg’s richly historic industrial waterfront into a burgeoning residential neighborhood, the massive Domino Sugar complex remains the greatest challenge and opportunity. […]

Chinatown Second-Graders Push for Local Landmarking

CHINATOWN — Call them pint-sized preservationists. Chinatown students are petitioning the city to landmark historic neighborhood sites like Confucius Plaza Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20110614/lower-east-side-east-village/chinatown-secondgraders-push-for-local-landmarking#ixzz1PM7l4RP5 A group of second-graders is pressing the city to landmark a Chinatown housing complex after learning about the area’s historic significance during the school year. The students, from PS 42 at 71 […]

Chinatown Second-Graders Push for Local Landmarking

CHINATOWN — Call them pint-sized preservationists. Chinatown students are petitioning the city to landmark historic neighborhood sites like Confucius Plaza Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20110614/lower-east-side-east-village/chinatown-secondgraders-push-for-local-landmarking#ixzz1PM7l4RP5 A group of second-graders is pressing the city to landmark a Chinatown housing complex after learning about the area’s historic significance during the school year. The students, from PS 42 at 71 […]

Working on Landmark Buildings:An Informational Seminar

Working on Landmark Buildings: Renovation, Restoration and Reuse of Landmarked Buildings in New YorkAn Informational Seminar Join the Historic Districts Council for a program discussing performing restoration, renovation and adaptive reuse work on designated landmark buildings in New York City. There are over 25,000 buildings in New York City which are overseen and regulated by […]

Working on Landmark Buildings:An Informational Seminar

Working on Landmark Buildings: Renovation, Restoration and Reuse of Landmarked Buildings in New YorkAn Informational Seminar Join the Historic Districts Council for a program discussing performing restoration, renovation and adaptive reuse work on designated landmark buildings in New York City. There are over 25,000 buildings in New York City which are overseen and regulated by […]

Tell The New York Times What You Think About Preservation

Preservation is under fire….from The New York Times! In two recent NYT articles, NYT architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff and New Republic architecture critic Sarah Williams Goldhagen separately accuse the preservation community of working hand in hand with governments and developers to gentrify, emasculate, sanitize and pretty much ruin the world for everyone else. HDC believes […]

Tell The New York Times What You Think About Preservation

Preservation is under fire….from The New York Times! In two recent NYT articles, NYT architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff and New Republic architecture critic Sarah Williams Goldhagen separately accuse the preservation community of working hand in hand with governments and developers to gentrify, emasculate, sanitize and pretty much ruin the world for everyone else. HDC believes […]

Working on Landmark Buildings: An Informational Seminar

HDC’s New Continuing Education Seminar:   Working on Landmark Buildings: Renovation, Restoration and Reuse of Landmarked Buildings in New York; An Informational Seminar Thursday, June 16, 2011; 8:30am-1:00pm Credit: 4 Continuing Education Hours, 4 HSW Credit Hours Location: Institute for Classical American Architecture20 West 44th Street, 3rd FloorNew York, NY 10036Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues Presenters:Bill […]

Working on Landmark Buildings: An Informational Seminar

HDC’s New Continuing Education Seminar:   Working on Landmark Buildings: Renovation, Restoration and Reuse of Landmarked Buildings in New York; An Informational Seminar Thursday, June 16, 2011; 8:30am-1:00pm Credit: 4 Continuing Education Hours, 4 HSW Credit Hours Location: Institute for Classical American Architecture20 West 44th Street, 3rd FloorNew York, NY 10036Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues Presenters:Bill […]