The Historic Districts Council (HDC) supports the goals of the Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act (S. 7791A and A. 8386A), which is why we have long supported many preservation-and-development strategies for religious properties, including the 74-711 zoning variance, which allows “a modification of use and bulk” on landmarked sites in exchange for a restoration and maintenance […]
The Historic Districts Council partnered with the Rose Hill/Kips Bay Coalition via our 2024 Six to Celebrate program. Together, HDC and the Coalition surveyed Manhattan’s Rose Hill and Kips Bay neighborhoods in order to identify significant, undesignated properties that we believe merit designation as Individual or Interior Landmarks. As a result of that survey work, […]
The Historic Districts Council stands firmly against erasure and revisionist history. In conjunction with our preservation colleagues in New York State, we condemn the National Park Service’s erasure of Trans and Queer history from the Stonewall National Monument, and from the broader history of the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights. Trans and Queer people exist in […]
The Historic Districts Council (HDC), New York’s citywide advocate for historic buildings and neighborhoods, is pleased to announce its Six to Celebrate, an annual listing of historic New York City neighborhoods that merit preservation attention. Six to Celebrate is New York’s only citywide list of preservation priorities. Fort Washington HDC will help the Fort Washington […]
On December 5th the City Council voted 31-20 to approve Mayor Adams’ “City of Yes” citywide rezoning plan Thanks to sustained advocacy from groups including HDC, the approved plan includes provisions for deeper affordability than were originally proposed. While we still have concerns about some of the ways that City of Yes will impact our […]
HDC is excited to launch NEED Landmarks: Neighborhoods Expecting Equitable Designation, a preservation affinity group for community organizations advocating for designations in neighborhoods underserved by landmark designation. Who is this group for?: Community groups advocating for designations in neighborhoods underserved by landmark designation may be interested in joining this group. In this context, “underserved” means […]
HDC, is pleased to announce its Six to Celebrate, an annual listing of historic New York City neighborhoods that merit preservation attention. Six to Celebrate is New York’s only citywide list of preservation priorities.
Letter to The New York Times Editor, January 2024 Binyamin Applebaum thinks New York would be a better city if we tore it down. In his Op-Ed “I Want a City Not a Museum,” (December 30th, 2023), Applebaum writes that he is sad to see buildings where his forebears lived in New York City still […]
HDC is both baffled and outraged by Vornado’s latest plan to erect four tennis courts and a 10-story billboard on the site of the former Hotel Pennsylvania, which was once a 2,200-room hotel that could have been converted into thousands of units of centrally located housing in one of the city’s most transit rich environments. […]
Link5G is a public-private partnership between the private carrier, CityBridge, and the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation. The stated goal is to “bring better cellular service, increased opportunities to connect to free Wi-Fi, and improved options for in-home broadband internet access.” The program has some similarities to the 4G wifi internet kiosks […]
