E-BULLETIN OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL City Council Deliberates on East Village Historic District Tuesday, January 29, 11 am The East Village/Lower East Side Historic District will be heard before City Council Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Siting and Maritime Uses this Tuesday, January 29th at 11:00 am. Come out to the Council Committee Room on […]
E-BULLETIN OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL August 2012, Volume 9, Number 3 ——————————————————————————————————- BRINCKERHOFF LANDMARKED! HDC is happy to report that the Brinckerhoff Cemetery in Fresh Meadows, Queens was landmarked on Tuesday! The cemetery, which dates back to at least 1730 and is the resting place of some of the area’s earliest settlers, joins […]
Voices from the Neighborhood West End Interviewed September 21, 2010, by Susan S. Hopper, HDC board member ——————————————————————————————————— How did you get started with preservation? We were trying to get a couple of buildings landmarked and realized the mission was larger than that, so we […]
Voices from the Neighborhood BROOKLYN Claudette Brady: Bedford Stuyvesant; Bedford Corners Historic District (proposed) Interviewed October 20, 2010 by Susan Hopper, HDC board member. ——————————————————————————————————— How did you get started with preservation? I live on Hancock Street near Girls High School and Boys High School, both landmarked. I understand the landmarking […]
E-BULLETIN OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL April 2012, Volume 9, Number 1 Announcing the First of HDC’s 2012 Neighborhood Walking and Bicycle Tours Sunday, May 6, 2pm Van Cortlandt Village, Bronx WALKING TOUR led by Anthony W. Robins, architectural historian Once the site of Revolutionary War-era Fort Independence, Van Cortlandt Village developed into […]
E-BULLETIN OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL March 2012, Volume 9, Number 4 S.O.S. – SAVE OUR SHIPS! New York City’s historic structures are not just on land. Historic ships, like the Lilac and the Mary A. Whalen, call the city home, adding history and life to our waterways. Many provide educational, recreational and cultural […]
Linda Mariano is the voice of preservation in her neighborhood of Gowanus. Linda is the co-founder of a local non-profit which centers on community preservation and has been successful in receiving two grants in the past year, one from the National Trust and the other from the Preservation Fund for New York City that will […]
From The New York Times December 7, 2008 Living In | St. Albans, Queens Bluesy Home Market With a Jazzy Past By JOSEPH PLAMBECK IT used to be easy for residents to rest on St. Albans’s laurels. For several decades, starting in the 1940s, this serene neighborhood in southeastern Queens was a bastion for some […]
