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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 88 East 10th Street
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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?: 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?: 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
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. 10 East…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 808 Broadway, “The Renwick’
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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: 49 East 10th, Home of Jackson Pollock
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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?: 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 It Landmarked?: 204 East 13th Street, Home To Jazz Great and Film History
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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 This Landmarked? 70 Fifth Avenue
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: The Hotel Albert on University Place
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Why Isn’t It Landmarked?: 813 Broadway
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 815 Broadway
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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 This Landmarked? 53 East 10th Street, Home of Apostolic Studios
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 30 East 14th Street Artists’ Loft
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 60 Fifth Avenue
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Study Finds Landmarked Sites Have Lower Retail Vacancy Rate
This week Village Preservation released the results of a survey (pictured above and linked here) conducted over several months looking at retail vacancy rates in landmarked areas and non-landmarked areas of…
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Study Finds Landmarked Sites Have Lower Retail Vacancy Rate
This week Village Preservation released the results of a survey (pictured above and linked here) conducted over several months looking at retail vacancy rates in landmarked areas and non-landmarked areas…
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Join Us for Press Conference December 15 at 2 PM on the Steps of City Hall To Protest the Growing Rash of Demolitions of Landmarked Buildings Across NYC
…and community leaders from across New York City, to call attention to recent demolitions of landmarked and soon-to-be-landmarked buildings from Greenwich Village to Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant to the Upper East Side,…
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Landmarks Preservation Commission Proposes Rules for Outdoor Dining Structures in Landmarked Areas
…dining on sidewalks and in roadbeds in historic districts and adjacent to landmarked buildings. Last year, the City approved permanent rules for expanded outdoor dining in New York City, but…
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Accomplishments
…a study showing lower retail vacancy rates in landmarked areas as compared to non-landmarked ones; and secured community board approval for a proposed special district limiting the proliferation of chain stores in…
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Why Aren’t These Landmarked? Black History Month Edition
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827-831 Broadway, Threatened 1866 Lofts Once Home to de Kooning, Landmarked! Year and a Half Campaign Saves Historic Structures from Wrecking Ball and Planned Replacement with 300 ft. Tall Tower Owner Opposed Designation, Threatened Lawsuit
…the buildings were landmarked, claiming that designation would constitute a “hardship” for them given the amount they paid for the buildings. But the owners previously publicly stated that the buildings were…
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Another Landmarked Building in Greenwich Village Endangered Due to City-Approved Work at 10 Fifth Avenue
…question are located within the Greenwich Village Historic District, and therefore landmarked and supposed to be protected from demolition. However, in 2021 over our vociferous protests, the Landmarks Preservation Commission…
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Troubling Plan for Iconic Landmarked 1834 House at 131 Charles Street Comes Before Landmarks Tuesday — Join Us to Oppose!
Next Tuesday, the NYC Landmarks Preservation will hold a public hearing on an application to alter the iconic, individually landmarked 1834 house and rear house at 131 and 131½ Charles…
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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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Now Even More Ways to Track and Respond to Proposed Changes to Local Landmarked Properties
More than 10 years ago, Village Preservation became the very first place in New York City where you could see applications for changes to landmarked properties that require public review…
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Nine Landmarked 1840s Houses at 44-54 Ninth Avenue/351-55 West 14th Street in Meatpacking District Face Demolition
…City decided that the nine landmarked buildings were in dangerous, unsafe condition, and needed to be dismantled — a stunning loss of landmarked, historic properties. Village Preservation has challenged this…
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Troubling Plan to Alter and Excavate Under Iconic 1834 Landmarked House at 131 Charles Street Returns Tuesday!
…Residence of Diane Arbus: TELL THE CITY NO TODAY! A new plan to significantly alter and dig below the iconic landmarked house (1834) and backhouse at 131 and 131½ Charles…
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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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Documents Reveal Expert Opinion That Saving Landmarked Houses’ Facades Was Possible, But Was Suppressed
…at Save Chelsea has revealed that vital information about the state of nine landmarked 1840s houses at 44-54 Ninth Avenue and 351-55 West 14th Street in the Meatpacking District was…
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Support Grows for Saving Threatened 170-Year-Old Houses at 14-16 Fifth Avenue – Write City Officials Today To Preserve These Landmarked Buildings!
…first announced by a developer to seek permission to demolish the landmarked 170-year-old houses at 14-16 Fifth Avenue in the Greenwich Village Historic District and replace them with a huge tower, Village…
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Storefronts in Landmarked Buildings
Storefronts in Landmarked Buildings Lecture at Washington Square Institute Stores and commercial spaces provide important services, products, jobs, and character to our neighborhoods and communities. Small businesses in landmarked buildings…
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Application for Changes to Double-Landmarked Iconic 131 and 131½ Charles Street Returns for Fourth Time on Tuesday
A new application to significantly alter and dig below the iconic landmarked house (1834) and backhouse at 131 and 131½ Charles Street will come before the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)…
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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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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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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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Elected Officials, Preservationists, Tenant Advocates Condemn Plan by Madison Realty Capital to Demolish Landmarked 1848 Greenwich Village Building for 244 ft. Tall Pied-a-Terre Tower for Super-Rich
…just 18 units of super-luxury housing. Those assembled condemned the proposed demolition of a historic building in a landmarked district, the inappropriate size and scale of the proposed replacement tower,…
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Updates on Safety and Stability at Landmarked Sites: 10-14 Fifth Avenue and 50-52 Second Avenue/40-42 East 3rd Street
…City agencies on their flawed oversight of landmarked properties to help ensure their safety and integrity are maintained. At 14 Fifth Avenue, City-approved work (opposed by Village Preservation) in February…
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Fighting to Preserve the Unique Historic Qualities of a Landmarked West Village House
65 Horatio Street existing (left) and proposed. Monitoring, notifying the public about, and responding to applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhood is one of our most important…
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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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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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Rally To Save Nine Landmarked Houses in the Meatpacking District this Thursday, Oct. 28, at 1 pm — JOIN US!
…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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Plan To Alter and Potentially Undermine Landmarked 1834 House and Carriage House Returns Tuesday
…from 1959 to 1968, at the height of her too-short career. In 2006, Village Preservation got the house and backhouse doubly landmarked, along with several dozen surrounding buildings, as part…
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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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City Council Candidate Forum Videos; Primary June 27th, Early Voting June 17-25th
…impactful. You can also find out more information about all candidates, City Council races, and changed district boundary lines here. The primary is Tuesday, June 27th, with early voting from…
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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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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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After 10-Year Campaign, Julius’ Bar Is Landmarked! Fight for More Needed Landmark Designations
…landmarked in 2015, becoming the city’s first designated LGBTQ+ landmark, and the LGBT Center and GAA Firehouse were designated in 2019. As part of our ongoing campaign to get the…
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Stonewall Landmarked! Continue the Fight for LGBT History
…has landmarked based solely upon LGBT history. VP first proposed the Stonewall for landmark designation in early 2014, and spearheaded the campaign to get the City to take this action. This is an…
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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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Foreclosure Ordered for East Village’s Former P.S. 64/CHARAS-El Bohio Community Center as Neighborhood Demands Landmarked Building’s Return
…a little early this year for those involved in the nearly quarter-century fight to see the East Village’s landmarked former P.S. 64/CHARAS-El Bohio Community Center at 605 East 9th Street…
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Seizing the Opportunity to Return the Landmarked Former CHARAS/Old P.S. 64 to the Community
The landmarked former CHARAS Community Center/old P.S. 64 at 605 East 9th Street will soon, finally, be wrested from the hands of owner Gregg Singer. Singer purchased it through a…
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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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Middle Collegiate Hearing for Application to Demolish Fire-Damaged Landmarked Facade Next Tuesday
Next Tuesday, November 22, the Landmarks Preservation Commission is scheduled to hear an application by Middle Collegiate Church to demolish the remaining fire-damaged facade of their landmarked 1894 church (rescheduled…
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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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Help Save An Iconic Landmarked West Village House
…so. Changes to landmarked buildings like this can be and are approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission if the city agency deems them “appropriate” to the historic character of the building and…
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Application to Demolish Fire-Damaged Facade of Landmarked Middle Collegiate Church, 112 Second Avenue, To Be Heard Next Tuesday
Next Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission will hear an application by Middle Collegiate Church to demolish the remaining fire-damaged facade of their landmarked 1894 church. The church suffered a devastating…
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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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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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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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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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