From the Queens Chronicle: Leaders Testify To Designate Jamaica Bank A Landmarkby Theresa Juva, Assistant Editor05/24/2007 A handful of historians and Southeast Queens residents gathered at the Landmarks Preservation Commission offices in Lower Manhattan last week to urge the historic preservation of the former Jamaica Savings Bank.Leaders like Gloria Black, chairwoman of Community Board 12, […]
Elmhurst’s “Carnegie” Library (86-01 Broadway), which has celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2006, is now imminently endangered. This is one of the few potential landmarks left in Elmhurst with the rampant and tasteless development, and sites of nominal significance. A proposal is being considered that would replace this architectural, cultural, & historical gem in its […]
Celebrate Historic Jackson Heights Sponsored by the Jackson Heights Beautification Group Join the JHBG in celebrating Jackson Heights, the first planned garden and cooperative apartment community in America – and a City, State, and Federal Historic District Saturday, June 9th Rain date for Garden Tour: June 16th – all other events rain or shine Slide […]
Protesters’ arbor grudge; Homeowner ripped for destroying trees BY DONALD BERTRANDDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Wednesday, May 9th 2007, 4:00 AM A man’s home is his castle, and so, too, are his trees – even if his home is landmarked. About a dozen Flushing community leaders met in front of the city-landmarked Fitzgerald-Ginsberg Mansion last week […]
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 […]
From the Juniper Park Civic Association St. Saviour’s plans unveiled by Christina Wilkinson The St. Saviour’s Parsonage is an architectural gem all its own. The JPCA has unveiled an architectural rendering of what the St. Saviour’s Church and Parsonage will look like after both they and the historic grounds upon which they sit are saved […]
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 Queens Chronicle 04/19/2007Former Party Boss Vows To Purchase Landmark by Joseph Wendelken, Assistant Editor Although the landmarked Richmond Hill Republican Club building was auctioned last Friday, the former boss of Manhattan’s Republican organization has vowed to take advantage of an option that a Queens judge left open to him to annul the winning […]
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
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 […]
