From the NYT Empire Zone Blog May 22, 2007Brooklyn’s Sweetest Landmark?By Sewell Chan The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted today to schedule a hearing on whether to designate the former Domino sugar processing plant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as a landmark. The decision today, which was made in a unanimous vote, is the first of three […]
Every time you think that it’s getting easier to save buildings in Staten Island, you get hit with a roll call like this. Lighthouse Hill home landmarked1856 Italianate villa on Meisner Avenue receives designation from city Wednesday, May 16, 2007By KAREN O’SHEAADVANCE STAFF WRITERSTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Lighthouse Hill house that was home to […]
Historic South Village in limboBy Justin Rocket Silverman, amNewYork Staff [email protected] May 21, 2007From 1820s Federal style homes, to the early 20th century site of one the city’s first lesbian bars, to the Beat poet cafes of the 1950s, the southern end of Greenwich Village is easily among the most unique slices of urban history […]
From the Villager Back to the future of L.E.S.; District plan revivesBy Alyssa Giachino Neighborhood preservationists are revving their engines again on the Lower East Side, this time with a broader coalition of support, reviving a proposal to designate a historic district that ran into determined opposition last year. A new group calling itself the […]
From the LPC, http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/press/05_15_07-3.pdf The Landmarks Preservation Commission today unanimously designated 63 Nassau Street as a New York City landmark, citing the building’s rare façade attributed to James Bogardus, a 19th centuryAmerican inventor and former watchmaker who pioneered the use of cast iron to imitate masonry and historic buildings. Eminent historic preservationist, author and former […]
From Diane Jackier [email protected],Director of External Affairs, Landmarks Preservation Commission The Landmarks Preservation Commission is holding a public hearing on the proposed designation of the Jamaica Savings Bank, located at 161-02 Jamaica Avenue in Queens, on Tuesday, May 15, 2007. The hearing will take place at the Commission’s offices located at 1 Centre Street, 9th […]
The LPC designated Crown Heights North (phase 1) as Brooklyn’s newest historic district this morning! Here’s an article from the New York Times April 24, 2007Crown Heights JournalSeeking Landmark Status, and Hoping to Lose a Label of UnrestBy MICHAEL WILSON The bass player’s widow looked down Dean Street and remembered her neighbors by the work […]
Coming to the LPC Tomorrow!! Item No. 1Borough of BrooklynLP-2204Time: 9:30 – 9:45 ITEM PROPOSED FOR DESIGNATIONPROPOSED CROWN HEIGHTS NORTH HISTORIC DISTRICTBoundary Description (or you could just look at the map http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/maps/ProposedCrown_Heights.pdf ) The proposed Crown Heights North Historic District consists of the properties bounded by a line beginning at the southeast corner of Bedford […]
From the Queens Chronicle (a truthful albeit a little too fairhanded take on Tuesday’s hearing) Landmarking Opinions From Both Sunny Sidesby Jennifer Manley, Assistant Editor In three-minute increments, Sunnyside Gardens residents bent the ears of the city’s Landmarks Preservation commissioners for nearly five hours on Tuesday. “We are here today not to talk, but to […]
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 […]
