The featured sites offer a glimpse into this community’s rich history, inviting you to explore further and support efforts to protect, preserve, and celebrate its unique legacy. This event will feature a live performance of Garifuna music, a short history of the Garifuna Diaspora, stories from Garifuna business owners featured in the brochure, plus more.
Join HDC, Christopher Street Tours, and the West Village BID on this immersive tour of Six to Celebrate neighborhood, the West Village. Winding through the off-the-grid streets, we’ll explore the area’s evolution from an 18th-century rural settlement to a bohemian enclave and, ultimately, one of the city’s most architecturally and culturally significant districts.
MAKING IT IN NEW YORK! The Preservation of Manufacturing Manufacturing has long been an integral part of New York City’s success, with businesses, makers, suppliers, and many others creating a rich network that provides for the city and world. HDC’s 2026 Conference will examine this complex topic with discussions among legacy businesses, new makers and artisans, economic development officials, historians, architects, developers, and many other stakeholders.
Join HDC and Matthew Jenkins, AIA, for an in-depth presentation on Parapet Observation Reports, the annual inspections mandated by New York City to ensure the safety and structural integrity of building parapets.
We invite current students, recent graduates, and early career preservationists to meet new colleagues and friends, reconnect with existing ones, and network with leaders in the preservation field.
Join us for this wide-ranging conversation with journalists who cover preservation, planning, and other urban themes in New York City.
Join us for a virtual walking tour of Fort Washington, which will explore how Holocaust refugees who fled 1930s Nazi Germany and other immigrants adapted to and shaped the architecture of the neighborhood.
West Park Presbyterian Church wants to demolish its lovely Romanesque Revival building, an individual landmark, so it can be replaced by another market-rate residential tower. The Landmarks Preservation Commission could decide the landmark’s fate next month.
Saturday, November 8, 2025 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. The walking tour of the Central Harlem–West 130th–132nd Streets Historic District, led by architectural historian John Reddick and Save Harlem Now’s Executive Director Claudette Brady, offers a cohesive architectural journey through the late 19th-century speculative building boom that defined Central Harlem. The district is notable for […]
Saturday, October 25, 2025 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. In celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the New York City Landmarks Law, Save Harlem Now! and Historic Districts Council invite you to “Take the A Train”. Two walking tours will explore the unique architectural and cultural history of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Originally built in the […]
