The Historic Districts Council, together with a coalition of over 30 preservation groups (see below), is seeking a $1 million increase to the LPC’s FY 2008 budget. This would allow the LPC to restore staffing to its 1991 level and to effectively protect New York’s valuable historic buildings and neighborhoods. The LPC protects our city’s […]
WHEN: Saturday, April 21st, 3pmWHERE: 69-57 185 Street, Fresh MeadowsWHO: NYC Councilman Tony Avella, the Fresh Meadows Homeowners Civic Association, Inc., and residents of 185th Street For details and photos, see http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2007/04/rally-in-fresh-meadows-this-saturday.html
From the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, www.gvshp.org NYU MEGA-DORM AIR RIGHTS HEARING TUESDAY, APRIL 17 at 11 am: Reminder: the hearing before the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) challenging the air rights “transfer” from the Post Office to the East 12th Street NYU Mega-Dorm will be this coming Tuesday, April 17, at […]
From the East Village Community Coalitionhttp://evccnyc.org Monday 6:30pm April 16 at University Settlement, 184 Eldridge Street (between Rivington & Delancey).The 197 Zoning Task Force of Community Board 3 will meet Monday. Please attend and encourage the the task force to continue working with Department of City Planning in protecting our neighborhood. Ask them to endorse […]
HDC exhorts everyone who cares about landmarking to attend the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s public designation hearing of Sunnyside Gardens this Tuesday, April 17th at 2:00pm in the Municipal Building, at Centre and Chambers Streets, 9th Floor North. As you have no doubt heard, the road just to get to this hearing has not been an […]
Tonight, Friday Ch. 4 News – CNBC’s Vivian Lee will cover the symbolic brickwork at 211 Pearl Street. The segment, which is scheduled to follow the show “Medium”, will cover the removal work, speculative ideas about the mysterious symbols origins and meaning, and interviews with preservationists and scholars in the U.S. and Europe. Mortar Tests […]
Campaign To Save NYC’s Oldest Diner (Moondance):In Urgent Need of Vacant Lot For TransportMy name is Michael Perlman, and I am a preservationist who is launching an effort with the American Diner Museum, to spare NYC’s oldest extant diner, the Moondance Diner (ca. 1933 or earlier) from the wrecking ball. The diner is located in […]
From Develop Don’t Destroy BrooklynCome to a Rally Against Ratner’s “Atlantic Yards” Project—————————————-On Sunday, April 15, several neighborhood and civic groups will stage a “Rally Against Demolitions for Parking.” The rally will begin at 2 p.m., and will take place on Pacific Street, between Carlton and Vanderbilt Avenues, in Prospect Heights — within the footprint […]
From Eric McClure, Campaign Coordinator, Park Slope [email protected] Community Board 6 to Consider DOT One-Way Proposal, Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.This Wednesday evening, at 6:30 p.m., the full membership of Brooklyn Community Board 6 will hold their monthly General Meeting, during which they will vote on the proposal presented last month by the Department of Transportation to […]
Dear Friend of the Seaport, As you know, the design for Peck Slip is undergoing a revision in response to the call of the Community Board for more “greenery” within the historic site. The landscape firm of Quennell Rothschild and the New York City Department of Parks will unveil their new plan at three key […]
