Archives for: June 8th, 2011
Jackson Heights Historic Weekend
Jackson Heights Historic Weekend
Jackson Heights Historic Weekend
Jackson Heights Historic Weekend
40th Birthday Campaign: $40,000 for 40 Years
Help make #HDC’s 40th Birthday a happy one!! Click here to make a special #40th birthday donation! #http://www.hdc.org/40thcampaign.htm All donors to the Campaign will be listed on the HDC website and in a special Campaign publication. All donations to the HDC Birthday Campaign are fully tax deductible.
40th Birthday Campaign: $40,000 for 40 Years
Help make #HDC’s 40th Birthday a happy one!! Click here to make a special #40th birthday donation! #http://www.hdc.org/40thcampaign.htm All donors to the Campaign will be listed on the HDC website and in a special Campaign publication. All donations to the HDC Birthday Campaign are fully tax deductible.
Atlantic Yards Film to Debut in Manhattan
Battle for Brooklyn “The movie…has heart, soul and chutzpah…Feisty but fairly reported…The time line that drives ‘Battle for Brooklyn’ makes it as urgent as any Hollywood thriller.” — Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News The eight-year-in-the-making film Battle for Brooklyn is an intimate and behind the scenes look at the seven year struggle over the Atlantic Yards project. […]
Atlantic Yards Film to Debut in Manhattan
Battle for Brooklyn “The movie…has heart, soul and chutzpah…Feisty but fairly reported…The time line that drives ‘Battle for Brooklyn’ makes it as urgent as any Hollywood thriller.” — Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News The eight-year-in-the-making film Battle for Brooklyn is an intimate and behind the scenes look at the seven year struggle over the Atlantic Yards project. […]
Institute For Urban Design Launches Open Call Design Competition To Address The Public Space Issues At The Top Of New Yorkers’ Lists
New York, NY – Over the past month and a half, the Institute for Urban Design (IfUD) collected more than 500 ideas from New Yorkers about how to improve their city’s public realm through the crowdsourcing project By the City / For the City. Now, the IfUD is launching the second phase of the project, […]
Preservationists Respond to Koolhaas/Ouroussoff
Reading Nicolai Ouroussoff ‘s recent review of Rem Koolhaas’s exhibit in The New York Times (“ An Architect’s Fear That Preservation Distorts”, NYT, 5/23/11), this preservation architect is struck by the ability of one well-meaning but clueless critic to so totally distort the reality of preservation activity in New York City. Ouroussoff implies that the […]
In the Beginning: The Creation of the Historic Districts Council
In the Beginning: The Creation of the Historic Districts Council Celebrate Our 40th Birthday with a fireside chat with some of our founders. The Historic Districts Council was formed in 1971 as a committee at the Municipal Art Society, consisting of representatives from New York City’s designated and proposed historic districts. Join us for cocktails and […]