From Landmark West! NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY UPDATE: Landmarks Preservation Commission Public Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, April 17 (time tba). This could be The Vote – remember, the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s decision in these matters is final. Please mark your calendars and make every effort to attend this important public meeting following up on the March […]
From the Queens Chronicle Landmarks Commission Appoints Queens Womanby Jennifer Manley, Assistant Editor Diana Chapin, a 38-year resident of Jackson Heights and executive director of the Queens Library Foundation, is the newest member of the City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The 65-year-old Michigan native has lived in the historic district of Jackson Heights since 1969, long […]
From the New York Observer: http://therealestate.observer.com/2007/03/council-oks-five-landmarks-commissioners.html The City Council on Wednesday unanimously reappointed four commissioners–and appointed one–to the 11-member Landmarks Preservation Commission. Four of the five, including new commissioner Diana Chapin, hail from the outer-boroughs. (Ms. Chapin is the executive director of the Queens Library Foundation.)
From the Western Queens Gazette – it seems that if you want something positive about preservation to be printed in certain papers, you have to write it yourself. Landmarking Process To The Editor: For too long, the four so-called outer boroughs have been assigned a back seat by the city in terms of getting landmark […]
Attached please find the agenda for the April 10, 2007 Research Public Hearing at the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Any information you can provide about each building’s significance and condition is relevant to our consideration. Diane Jackier, Director of External AffairsLandmarks Preservation CommissionPhone: (212) 669-7923Fax: (212) [email protected] PUBLIC DESIGNATION HEARINGRESEARCH DEPARTMENTTUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2007AGENDA9:30 — 9:40Public […]
From the Villager Preservationists hail a landmark meeting by BeepBy Albert Amateau Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer last week brought together preservation advocates and leaders of the borough’s 12 community boards to talk about ways to enhance Manhattan’s architectural and cultural heritage. The March 14 meeting was seen as the beginning of a continuing effort […]
From Landmark West! It was a standing-room-only crowd at yesterday’s public hearing at the Landmarks Preservation Commission on the New-York Historical Society’s plan to drastically alter their “Triple Landmark” on Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets. Thanks to the more than 60 people who testified, and the many more who looked on (despite […]
The Price of Progress? March 19, 2007 Gotham Gazette’s Reading NYC Book Club discussed historic preservation and urban development at its meeting on February 28, 2007. Two guest authors joined the meeting: Kevin Walsh, whose book Forgotten New York (based on his Web site by the same name) is a tribute to the city’s historic […]
From the Brooklyn Rail – a very neat article about both this interesting building and how it (and by extrapolation other buildings) got designated.Birth of the Concrete Jungleby Laura K. Raskin To love New York City is to fall for concrete and steel. Maybe it’s the iconic Brooklyn Bridge that raises the hair on your […]
From the Queens Ledger Dateline : Thursday, March 15, 2007If We Had a Million Dollars…By Nik Kovac The very same week that the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) created some neighborhood-based controversy by calendaring Sunnyside Gardens on Tuesday, they also stood before the City Council on Friday, hoping to get more funding in order to create […]
