The Historic Districts Council, the citywide advocate for New York’s historic neighborhoods, seeks a full-time Preservation Assistant. Duties will include providing administrative and office support for small non-profit organization serving New York City communities, supporting membership, development efforts & special events, maintaining ongoing educational and outreach programs and helping to initiate and plan new programs, […]
Big thanks to Norman Oder for his detailed account of last night’s meeting in Prospect Heights.Here’s the key bit –“LPC’s Betts explained that, thanks to new funding from the mayor and City Council, the commission has for the first time in 16 years begun to survey neighborhoods on its own, so it is well into […]
http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/09/overlooking_und.php Big thanks to the folks at Brownstoner for their coverage of HDC’s newest issue of District Lines and its cover story on the danger of excavations to historic buildings. For the full issue, see http://www.hdc.org/districtlines.htm
On Wednesday, September 19 at 7:00PM, please join the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council and invited guest speakers for a community forum on historic designation for Prospect Heights, to be held in the auditorium of P.S. 9, 80 Underhill Avenue at St. Marks Avenue. Prospect Heights has remained remarkably free from large-scale physical change, making […]
Seats are filling up fast! HDC’s “On the Town in New York: Historic Theaters and Bars of New York City” is just around the corner, so be sure to send in your reservations soon. This fascinating series of programs will investigate the history and preservation of some of New York City’s most notorious haunts. Tomorrow, […]
Here’s a look at what the LPC has been up to in July and August… July 10thPublic Hearing07-4488175 9th Avenue – Chelsea Historic DistrictAs you have probably heard, the General Theological Seminary applied to demolish an existing 1960 building and construct two new buildings on its campus. HDC approved of the demolition of the present […]
City now seeks ‘Railroad’ tiesBy Dana RubinsteinThe Brooklyn Paper Oh the irony: After spending more than two years preparing for the demolition of Duffield Street homes that many believe were stations on the Underground Railroad, the Bloomberg Administration now says it wants to “to commemorate abolitionist activity that occurred in Brooklyn in the 1800s.” Bloomberg […]
Lawrence St tower may top Williamsburgh BankBy Dana RubinsteinThe Brooklyn Paper The Williamsburgh Bank Building’s iconic clocktower would no longer be the borough’s tallest structure, if a big-time development company has its way. The Clarett Group, the firm behind the Forte condos in Fort Greene, submitted a proposal in June for a 51-story residential building […]
The ‘Burden’ of Making DUMBO a Historic DistrictBY ERIN DURKIN – Special to the SunJuly 26, 2007URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/59176 After a several uninterrupted years of stratospheric growth, the city could move toward restricting future development in the Brooklyn neighborhood of DUMBO. The Landmarks Preservation Commission this week voted 8-0 to formally consider creating a historic district […]
From the Daily News Coming to their census on rezoningBY DENISE ROMANO Tuesday, July 24th 2007, 4:00 AM Bath Beach residents are turning to a novel method to forestall a possible wave of new real estate development that could change the “country-in-the-city” feel of their neighborhood. They are taking an architectural census in response to […]
