HDC is pleased to share the summary report from our 2026 annual conference, Making It In New York: The Preservation of Manufacturing. The conference featured three panel discussions examining the history, current state, and future of urban industry in New York City. Programming also included walking tours exploring the city’s industrial heritage and active manufacturing […]
Unlocking Historic Tax Credits to Preserve New York City’s Existing Affordable Housing. Preservation Is Part of the Housing Solution. Affordable housing is one of the most significant issues impacting New York City today. However, the focus has mostly been on the development of new housing and less on the issues plaguing the preservation of existing, […]
HDC is pleased to share a summary report from our 2025 Preservation Conference, “Challenges And Opportunities For Historic Affordable Housing”. The Conference’s three panels featured housing experts, architects, preservationists, and community advocates addressing the promise and obstacles of converting existing historic properties into affordable housing, the current state of rent stabilized buildings; the maintenance, restoration […]
In 2020 the Historic Districts Council was successful in creating a thematic State and National Register Historic District for all the Carnegie Libraries in New York City. This is important not only because of the historical research but because it provides a variety of incentives for the libraries: they ware now eligible for special funding […]
Report Assesses Value of Landmark Preservation 50 Years After Passage of New York City Landmarks Law Rebuts Claims From Real Estate Board of New York as Self-Serving A Proven Success – CECPP Report Opening Letter from HDC President Leo Blackman A new report shows how landmark designation by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission positively […]
BEYOND BRICKS AND MORTAR Rethinking Sites of Cultural History Report of a Symposium held at Riverside Church in New York City on October 1, 2018 First Edition, 2020 Section 1: INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL LANDMARKS Traditionally, preservation has focused mainly on architectural merit, but recently attention has been drawn to sites of cultural importance, which are […]
REPORT PREPARED FOR HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL SEPTEMBER 2014 PREPARED BY: JACQUELINE PEU-DUVALLON PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR PROJECT DESCRIPTION At the request of the Historic Districts Council, and with funding from the Preservation League of New York State, Jacqueline Peu-Duvallon Historic Preservation Consulting, LLC, completed a reconnaissance survey of historic resources in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The survey […]
Setting the agenda for a new Landmarks Chair As regular readers are aware, Mayor de Blasio is currently on the hunt for a new Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. There is much discussion about the qualities a Landmarks Chair should posses: demonstrable commitment to historic buildings, good understanding of city government, respect for the […]
Affordable housing dominates New York City’s public policy discourse. And for years, it’s been used as a tool to attack historic preservation efforts. Until now. The Historic Districts Council engaged an independent housing and planning consultant to analyze the data and get the facts. Funded by the New York Community Trust, the result is the […]
HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL June 2014 Volume 11, Number 5 —————————————————————————————————— The Historic Districts Council Analysis of The Real Estates Board of New York’s ‘Housing Production on NYC Landmark Properties’ Study The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) is at it again! To welcome new LPC Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan on her first day, the trade association and […]
