E-BULLETIN OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL
November 2014, Volume 11, Number 3
In This Issue:
- Taming Manhattan: An Illustrated Book Talk- Nov. 25
- Six to Celebrate 2015 Applications- Dec.1
- Campaign to Preserve the Carnegie Libraries
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Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
An Illustrated Book Talk
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Updated Time! 6:30 PM
Updated Location!
Silver Center at New York University
100 Washington Square East, Room 300
(Entrance on Waverly Place)
Join former HDC staffer and Portland State University Professor Catherine McNeur as she discusses her recently published book Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City.
Taming Manhattan details the environmental history of the city in the years before and during the Civil War, when pigs roamed the streets and cows foraged in the Battery. As city blocks encroached on farmland and undeveloped space to accommodate an exploding population, prosperous New Yorkers and their poorer neighbors developed very different ideas about what the city environment should contain. This presentation will focus on nineteenth-century New York City’s long forgotten shantytowns, the people living in the communities, and how outsiders viewed the architecture and communities developing on the metropolitan periphery.
This program is free, but reservations are required as space is limited.
To RSVP please contact Brigid Harmon at [email protected] or 212-614-9107
http://hdc.org/featured/taming-manhattan-illustrated-book-talk
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Six to Celebrate 2015 Applications
Deadline for the application is December 1, 2014, and the Six to Celebrate will be announced in early 2015.
The purpose of this program is to provide strategic resources to neighborhood groups at a critical moment so that they can reach their preservation goals. The program will help community activists learn to use tools such as documentation, research, zoning, landmarking, publicity, and public outreach to advance local preservation campaigns. The selected groups will receive HDC’s hands-on help strategizing and implementing all aspects of their efforts over the course of the 2014 calendar year, as well as our continued support in the years to come.
Since beginning this program in 2011, HDC has been able to help Six to Celebrate groups create two new National Register districts (the Bowery and Far Rockaway Bungalows) and two New York City historic districts (Bedford Stuyvesant and the East Village) with many others still in the works in all five boroughs (Bedford, Gowanus, Harrison Street, Port Morris, and Van Cortland Village). We have also assisted in leveraging more than $40,000 in private and public grants for these community-driven projects. Neighborhoods selected also get professionally-designed websites and illustrated walking tour brochures.
Click here to download the application
Please mail the application along with all requested supplemental materials.
SEND TO:
Six to Celebrate
Historic Districts Council
232 East 11th Street
New York, New York 10003
If you have any questions call 212-614-9107 or e-mail Barbara Zay
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Campaign to Preserve the Carnegie Libraries
Starting in 2009, HDC initiated a survey to document the existing Carnegie Libraries throughout New York City. We visited each branch, taking new detailed exterior and interior photographs, documenting existing and historic conditions and researching the rich history of each location. We are currently looking for a Preservation Consultant to complete the task of surveying and completing a nomination form to the National Register of Historic Places. If you are interested click here.