The Coalition to Preserve Community (CPC) will hold a rally and press conference on the steps of City Hall at 1:00PM today, Wednesday, Dec. 19, to protest the vote in favor of the Columbia expansion plan in West Harlem. Speaker Quinn and Mayor Bloomberg have been pushing this plan hard behind the scenes with committee […]
Mark your calendars and make sure to bring a snack, there will be a joint meeting of the Zoning & Franchises and the Planning, Dispositions & Concessions Committees on the Manhattanville re-zoning on December 12 at 10:00 a.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall. Zoning & Franchises will be voting on Columbia’s 197-c plan […]
From the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, www.gvshp.org Want to help save your neighborhood? Come to the SOUTH VILLAGE TOWN HALL MEETING Find out what’s going on with the effort to secure landmark status for the South Village, and how you can help. Join us in fighting to stop the growing number of demolitions […]
Blatantly and completely mirrored from Curbed, because sometimes you can’t improve on brillance:Thursday, December 6, 2007, by Robert[Photo via Brit in Brooklyn] There’s a meeting coming up next week in Brooklyn about the “proposed disposal” of the buildings on the Brooklyn Navy Yard property alternately called Admiral’s Row or Officer’s Row. We know this because […]
From the Neighborhood Preservation Center, [email protected] n We hope you can join us Thursday, December 6th for a lecture about the landmarked First Houses presented by real esate attorney Warren Shaw. This event is co-sponsored with The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. First Houses – A Monument of the Past – A Model for […]
Community Panel Presentation-Spanish Camp: Place MattersNovember 29, 20077pm at Spiro Hall, Wagner College A panel discussion about preservation and the meaning of “cultural worth” using Spanish Camp as a model. Moderated by Mark Elliott, Ph.D, award winning Author and Professor of History.Featuring Steve Zeitlin, Ph.d folklorist, commentator NPR, and Director of CityloreJim O’Grady, curator, writer/Center […]
You are cordially invited to the Preservation League of Staten Island’s 30th Anniversary CelebrationHonoring our founding members and past presidents: Barnett Shepard, founding presidentEloise BeilDianna GabayDonna HarrisKathy Kinneythe late Walter KlineRaymond PaviaMitchell GrublerLinda JonesChan Graham Friday, December 7, 20077:30 pm – 10:30 pmThe Staten Island Museum75 Stuyvesant PlaceStaten Island, New York$30 PLSI members$40 non-members Please […]
Readings from The Graving Dock by Gabriel Cohen A Multimedia Book Event A Book Launch Where Ships Launch Location: GMD Shipyard, Tailshaft and Valve Shop (a heated, hangar-sized shed), in The Brooklyn Navy Yard Sponsored by New York Magazine. PortSide NewYork was recently in the news for staging a Puccini opera aboard our tanker in […]
If you haven’t seen these yet – try to catch Barry & David’s informative and entertaining walks that are being broadcast on Thanksgiving. Thirteen only shows them during fundraising drives, so this is a rare opportunity to see them all. Thirteen “Walk Around…” seriesDebut: A Walk Around Staten Island with David Hartman & Historian Barry […]
from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservationhttp://www.gvshp.org/ Gansevoort Market Update: GVSHP continues the fight against the proliferation of illegal billboards in the Meatpacking District, and throughout our neighborhoods (see www.gvshp.org/GansvBlbd.htm ). We have some good news to report on that front – two illegal billboards we targeted have recently been removed. The first covered […]
