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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 88 East 10th Street
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 55 Fifth Avenue
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: The Hammacher Schlemmer & Co. Building
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: the Joseph J. Little Building on 28 East 14th Street
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 814 Broadway
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 112 Fourth Avenue
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked? 64-66 5th Avenue
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 72 Fifth Avenue, Appleton & Co. Headquarters
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked: 4 & 6 East 12th Street
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked? Devonshire House, 28 East 10th Street
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: the French Flats at 206-208 East 9th Street
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 80 Fifth Avenue
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: New York Woman Suffrage League Headquarters at 10 East 14th Street
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked: 49 East 10th, Home of Jackson Pollock
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: San Isidoro y San Leandro Western Orthodox Catholic Church of the Hispanic Mozarabic Rite
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: The Erskine Press Building, 17 East 13th Street
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked: 95 East 10th Street/48 Third Avenue
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 808 Broadway, “The Renwick’
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Why Isn’t this Landmarked?: 86 University Place, “Mittelstaedt House”
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: The Hebrew Technical Institute, 9th and Stuyvesant Streets
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked: Former McCreery’s Dry Goods Store, 801 Broadway/67 East 11th Street
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 30 East 14th Street Artists’ Loft
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked? 53 East 10th Street, Home of Apostolic Studios
Part of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation but somehow aren’t. 53 East…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 32 East 10th Street, Home of artist Franz Kline
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Why Isn’t It Landmarked?: 204 East 13th Street, Home To Jazz Great and Film History
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: The Hotel Albert on University Place
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 815 Broadway
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 114-118 East 13th Street, the American Felt Company Headquarters
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Why Isn’t It Landmarked?: 813 Broadway
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 60 Fifth Avenue
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked? 70 Fifth Avenue
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Why Aren’t These Landmarked? Black History Month Edition
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South Village Landmarked Today!
…(the first phase of which was landmarked in June of 2010). GVSHP first proposed landmark designation of the South Village ten years ago, and submitted a formal landmarking proposal with…
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One-third of South Village still not landmarked
One-third of South Village still not landmarked Op-Ed BY ANDREW BERMAN, Executive Director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation October 16, 2014 Word that an eight-story building is planned…
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Landmarked Lampposts
We often hear of historic districts, individual landmarked buildings and State and National Register sites. But did you know that there are sixty-two lampposts and four wall bracket lamps that…
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This Day in Preservation History: Home of Alexander Hamilton (Jr.) is Landmarked
…2002 (nine were individually landmarked and one was included in a historic district). Hamilton-Holley House in the 1930’s. Image via NYC Department of Taxes GVSHP has succeeded in helping to…
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Victory! 70 Fifth Avenue Landmarked; Continue the Fight for South of Union Square
…Village Preservation proposed and campaigned to have landmarked in the area south of Union Square. The building served as headquarters of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization,…
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Officials Stonewall on Information Regarding Condition of Nine Landmarked Meatpacking District Houses, OK Demolition
The nine landmarked 1840s houses as they appeared before work began (top), and as they were projected to look with approved work and new construction (below). City agencies have continued…
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Rally To Save Nine Landmarked Houses in the Meatpacking District
…the city-approved near-complete demolition of nine landmarked 1840s houses at 44-54 Ninth Avenue/351 West 14th Street in the Gansevoort Market Historic District, and to demand these houses be saved. ALL…
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Neighbors, Elected Officials, and Preservationists Protest Demolition of Nine Landmarked Meatpacking District Houses
…Third Council District Democratic Nominee Erik Bottcher for a demonstration and press conference condemning the city and a developer tearing down most of nine city, state, and federal landmarked 1840s…
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Further Proof That Landmarking Does Not Hurt Affordability, and Unfettered Development Doesn’t Help
…5.8% of its lot area landmarked, but this comes with a very important asterisk. By far the majority of that landmarked area consists of the East Village/Lower East Side Historic…
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The Landmarked New School Auditorium — Home of Village Preservation’s 2019 Annual Meeting and Village Awards
…Read additional history and see more picture of the space here, and click here toRSVP to attend the awards ceremony which will take place in the New School’s landmarked auditorium….
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Go inside 7 landmarked houses in Greenwich Village this weekend
…anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District, all the homes and the reception site are landmarked structures located within the district. The tour is the main annual…
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On This Day in 1966: 376 Lafayette Street is Landmarked
It was on May 17th, 1966, that the Schermerhorn Building at 376-380 Lafayette was designated a New York City landmark. The grand Romanesque Revival edifice was actually the third on Lafayette Street to be…
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Celebrate the beauty of Grace Church! Landmarked March 15, 1966
Grace Church 1905 Today we celebrate the glorious structure on the corner of Broadway and East 10th Street: Grace Church in New York. On this day in 1966, Grace Church…
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It’s What’s on the Inside: the Merchant’s House’s Landmarked Interior
Front entrance of the Merchant’s House Museum. Photo courtesy of static.panoramio.com. 2016 marked the 80th year in the Merchant’s House Museum’s history. While the museum is also a NYC landmark,…
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Remembering When: Skidmore House Landmarked
[photo by Stephen Senigo 1979 (LPC)]On August 18, 1970, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated landmark status to the grand Greek Revival house at 37 East 4th Street. The house was…
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Westbeth Landmarked!
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) just voted unanimously to landmark Westbeth, following through on a promise made seven years ago to the Greenwich Village Society for Historic…
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Small Stores Thrive in Landmark Districts
…retail vacancy rates in the East Village, covering both landmarked areas and non-landmarked areas . The survey found that the percentage of retail vacancies in landmarked areas of the neighborhood…
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Continuing the Work of Jane Jacobs
…that in the intervening years, we have been able to get nine of the ten buildings Jane called out landmarked or included in historic districts. You can read a partial…
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17 LGBT landmarks of Greenwich Village
…during the “Gay 90s.” They are among the oldest known places of assemblage of LGBT people in New York City. Both buildings were landmarked in 2013 as part of the…
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The Eclectic Streetscapes #SouthOfUnionSquare
…buildings in the neighborhood unprotected. While some have cited the neighborhood’s heterogeneity as a reason why it shouldn’t be landmarked, it is clear that the architectural variety and vibrancy in…
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South Village Landmark Proposal — What’s Out?
…be sold off. Judson Memorial Church and Hall (l.), landmarked in 1966; MacDougal Sullivan Gardens (r.), landmarked in 1967. Judson Memorial Church and Hall, one of the South Village’s great…
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Facts and Data Continue To Contradict Upzoning Argument
…are just as high in the landmarked areas such as Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope as they are in the adjacent non-landmarked ones like Gowanus and Downtown Brooklyn. The borough’s…
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Expanding Preservation Under Beverly Moss Spatt, Part II
…From 1974-1978 over 800 sites in New York City were landmarked by the LPC, but 203 Prince Street in the South Village is one of the very few sites landmarked…
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Op-Ed: Preservation Can Help Affordability
…example, REBNY claims that landmarking makes New York unaffordable, and pushes the working and middle class out of our neighborhoods. In the unlandmarked sections of the Village, working factories and…
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Celebrating 51 Years of Landmarking
…know what and where every one of those landmarked properties are? Check out the new interactive LPC map which provides information on and links for every landmark designation in New…
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Landmarking 101: Common Misconceptions
…misconceptions about landmarking and historic preservation. Myth #1: Landmarked buildings become frozen in time and cannot be altered Not true, landmarked buildings can be changed. New…
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Storefronts in Historic Districts — What You Need to Know
…over several months looking at retail vacancy rates in the East Village, covering both landmarked areas and non-landmarked areas. The survey found that the percentage of retail vacancies in landmarked…
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“Landmarks Wouldn’t Allow That, Would They?”
…over changes to properties in their area. A common misconception is that landmarked buildings, whether individually landmarked or within a historic district, may not be altered. This is not the…
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Things We’re Grateful For: Federal Houses
…200-202 Bleecker Street (Sixth Avenue/MacDougal Street); these 1826 houses are supposed to be landmarked in December as part of phase II of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District. They are…
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Thank You To Our Members — Making 40 Years of Village Preservation Possible
…in 2016, both of which we proposed for designation and fought to get landmarked. In 2011, Westbeth was landmarked, capping a seven-year advocacy campaign by Village Preservation. Westbeth We also…
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Landmarks Preservation Commission Celebrates Gay Pride, Doesn’t Designate Gay Landmarks
…much different standard was applied to the landmarked Louis Armstrong House in Queens, which was much more highly altered. The landmarked Louis Armstrong House, Queens. Highly altered from its original…
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Five More Reasons to Support Historic Preservation
…latest green technologies, while also utilizing durable materials that last longer and therefore minimize their carbon footprint. Affordability Westbeth: landmarked affordable housing complex. Photo by Barry Munger. Historic preservation can…
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Lucky Seventh Anniversary for Some Lucky Federal Houses
Seven years ago today, on July 24th, 2007, two very lucky federal rowhouse survivors on Greenwich Street were landmarked, thus insuring their nearly 200 year run of good luck would…
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Fingers Crossed for Another: Individual Landmark Designations We’ve Won
…2016, the LPC finally landmarked it. Click HERE for the designation report. Silver Towers/505 LaGuardia Place: On November 18, 2008, the City voted to designate the I.M. Pei-designed Silver…
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Expanding Preservation Under Beverly Moss Spatt
…from 1974-1978, the first woman to hold that position. Today we look at some of the important sites throughout the city and our neighborhoods that were landmarked during her tenure…
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Ten Years of Progress on Landmark and Zoning Protections — And the Road Ahead
…at: the ten historic districts and district extensions GVSHP helped get landmarked over the last ten years, Page 24 – Colorful “Old Law” tenements at 229-235 Sullivan Street (1886) in…
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The Former Gay Activists Alliance Headquarters at 99 Wooster Street Has At Last Become a Landmark
…GAA Firehouse is one of ten buildings in our neighborhood Village Preservation fought to have landmarked which were landmarked in June of this year, all of which, like the firehouse, have LPC…
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A Decade of Preserving Historic Houses of Worship
…of worship GVSHP has been able to help get landmarked over the last ten years. Tifereth Israel Syngogue The buildings range from grand to modest, are located everywhere from the…
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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center — Finally a Landmark
…waves — on June 11, seven buildings were landmarked on Broadway between 12th and 13th Streets, and on June 18th, three buildings in our neighborhood were landmarked for their significance…
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Archive Update: Photographing the Federal-era Houses of Lower Manhattan
…street houses, once so abundant in New York City.” In 2006 Village Preservation got the house doubly landmarked, along with dozens of surrounding buildings, as part of the Far West Village…
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(Even More) Artists, Theaters, and Advocates for Civil Rights and Social Justice in Our Neighborhoods
…company’s other founder in their current home at Gramercy Arts Theater on 138 East 27th Street. Photo courtesy of Repertorio Español. The Greenwich Mews Theater troupe had been operating out…
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The Village Presbyterian Church Helps Gives Birth to an Off-Broadway Spanish Revolution
…enough funds to occupy his own theater: the140-seat Gramercy Arts Theater at 138 East 27th Street. The current home of Repertorio Español on 138 East 27th Street. Although they would…
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June is Gay Pride Month
…been landmarked yet. Hold June 23rd on your calendar to attend and testify in support at the Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing on the proposal (time TBD, but it will be…
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Holiday Shopping in the Village
…services in landmarked surroundings. Those surroundings contribute to and inspire their distinctive shopping experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-7S16YftZo&list=PLOUarB7JkpZJ0Hl_Bdifi_vY5-7Af7pKd Multiple studies show that retail vacancy rates actually tend to be lower in landmarked or…
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A Five Year Milestone for Far West Village Landmarking
…new glassy condos. In 2004, GVSHP submitted a proposal to the LPC for a single Far West Village/Greenwich Village Waterfront Historic District which included all historic, non-landmarked buildings in the…
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Gordon Bunshaft: the Godfather of Corporate Modernism, in Greenwich Village
…New York City landmark in 1982, just as it hit the required 30 years of age to be considered for landmark designation — the youngest building to ever be landmarked…
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2020 Village Preservation Year in Review: Landmarks Applications
…continued to review and process permit applications for the landmarked properties in our neighborhoods. Interestingly, in the virtual environment that we have been operating in, there is in many ways…
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The Fight to Recognize LGBT Civil Rights History in Our Neighborhoods
…this matter? The LPC’s designation reports are the documents which guide the regulation of landmarked properties, and reflect the Commission’s official findings of significance for designated sites. Without recognition of…
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Recladding & Reevaluating
2 Fifth Avenue Like all other applications for work on landmarked properties in Greenwich Village, GVSHP has been keeping tabs on the progress of the recently-approved plans to re-clad the…
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More Historic Images Show Us What’s Changed and What’s Remained the Same
One of our most recently landmarked buildings, the Roosevelt Building at 841 Broadway, has an exciting application for alterations which includes the restoration of its piers at the storefront level….
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LPC Releases Permit Application Guide
Credit: Berenice Abbott, 1937. Source: Museum of the City of New York. Are you an owner of a landmarked building or someone that files applications through the Landmarks Preservation Commission?…
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Landmarking 101: What Can They Do Here?
Perhaps one of the most frequent questions we here at GVSHP get from the public regarding landmarked sites or sites within designated historic districts is “what can they do here?”…
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The First Landmarks Preservation Commission Hearing, and the First Designated Landmarks
…our neighborhood landmarked that day which became the very first landmarks in New York City were the Merchants House Museum, the Stuyvesant Fish House, and the remaining houses of Colonnade…
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New Historic Images- Astor Place, 10th Street, Village Community School, and more.
GVSHP just added 29 new historic images to our archive taken from current public applications to the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) for significant changes to landmarked buildings in our neighborhoods….
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840 Broadway: Renaissance Revival Landmark with Inspiration from the Acropolis
…840 Broadway is one of ten buildings in our neighborhood Village Preservation fought to have landmarked which were landmarked in June of this year, all of which, like 840 Broadway,…
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Beyond The Village and Back: Gould Library and Begrisch Hall, Bronx Community College
Gould Library Exterior. Landmarked 1966. Image via Preservation League of New York State In our new series Beyond the Village and Back, we’ll take a look at some great landmarks…
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126 Waverly Place, A Lesson in Preservation
…‘What do you build in a historic district?’ which has been posed in the Village since it was legally landmarked…” At both the CB2 Landmarks Committee meeting and the Full…
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The Real Obstacles to Affordable Housing Construction
…cross their minds: Landmarking. Landmarks like Westbeth are not the problem; in fact, Westbeth is a landmarked, preserved affordable housing development. That’s ironic, given that the Real Estate Board of…
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A Landmark From the Heyday of Yiddish Theater That Still Stands Today
…Yiddish Theater actually is an official New York City landmark, designated on February 9th, 1993, and therefore isn’t going anywhere. It is one of the few interior and exterior landmarks in the entire city. We gave the…
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Get Involved: Landmarks Review at Community Boards
…of public interest and therefore involvement in the process of the certificate of appropriateness permits for landmarked properties. To that end, we thought we would review the Community Board’s role…
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