HDC is co-sponsoring two lighthouse boat tours with our Six to Celebrate partner, the National Lighthouse Museum. The East River and Long Island Sound on July 13, 2025, and Sandy Hook & Twin Lights on August 3, 2025.
This walking tour, from 100th to 106th Streets, will highlight a variety of architectural styles from Renaissance Revival and Queen Anne rowhouses to New Law tenements, and discuss the legacy of Robert Moses’ Urban Renewal with such sites as Park West Village and Frederick Douglass Houses.
Join HDC and FRIENDS of the Upper East Side for a walking tour focused on Yorkville’s history as an affordable and progressive housing laboratory.
Yorkville’s immigrant history made the neighborhood a laboratory for “Model Tenements,” “French Flats,” and “Light Court Tenements.” These experimental structures helped create standards that proliferated throughout the city.
Thursday, June 12, 2025 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. 1 LU AIA Credit Please join HDC for a tour of the “T Building,” an award-winning adaptive reuse that transformed the former Triboro Hospital For Tuberculosis at 82-41 Parsons Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens, into a residential building that holds 200 units of affordable and supportive housing […]
Saturday, May 31, 2025 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Rain or shine Join HDC and Urban Archive for this scavenger hunt in the Six to Celebrate neighborhood of Downtown Brooklyn. During the hunt, learn about the history of this storied area, from the Revolutionary War to Walt Whitman to Grand Theft Auto. Each team of […]
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 6:00 pm Via Zoom The Midtown South Mixed Use Plan (MSMX) has the potential to bring thousands of units of new housing to the neighborhood. But how will it impact the existing historic fabric of the area including the Garment Center National Register Historic District and the locally designed districts of […]
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery Since 2000, the Historic Districts Council has honored more than 150 individuals, community groups, coalitions, elected officials, and press outlets for their achievements. This year, HDC celebrates 25 years of continuing the tradition to recognize, honor, and encourage public participation in the preservation process.
Saturday, May 3, 2025 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. If you walk through Washington Street in Manhattan’s Financial District today, you would never know that once upon a time, the area was home to the first Arabic-speaking community in the United States. In the late 19th century, it was known as the “Syrian Quarter,” which […]
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 6:00 – 8:00 pm The Stonewall Inn 53 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014 Join HDC as we officially welcome the 2024 Six to Celebrate groups! Enjoy beer, wine, and light snacks while mingling with preservationists from across the city. Come hear more about the campaigns HDC will be undertaking in […]
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Via Zoom 1 AIA LU Credit The historic lighthouse on the northern tip of Roosevelt Island was designed by James Renwick, Jr. and built in 1872. Over the years the lighthouse was significantly modified and was then decommissioned in 1940. Join architect Tom Fenniman, AIA, as […]
