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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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Small Stores Thrive in Landmark Districts
…landmarked areas and non-landmarked areas . The survey found that the percentage of retail vacancies in landmarked areas of the neighborhood were less than half the rate in non-landmarked areas…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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PRESS RELEASE September 15, 2015 For Immediate Release
…Units in Landmarked Properties” today refuted the conclusions of REBNY’s study, and generated a more accurate analysis of the data which showed that landmarked areas actually often preserved their rent stabilized…
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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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AFTER NEARLY HALF-CENTURY WAIT, 200 YEAR OLD HOUSE AT 57 SULLIVAN STREET TO FINALLY RECEIVE LANDMARK DESIGNATION
…already been landmarked). In 2009 the Commission heard 57 Sullivan Street again, but did not vote. In 2013, VP successfully nominated 57 Sullivan Street for the State and National Registers…
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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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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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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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“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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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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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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406 Sixth Avenue
…as of September 27th 2011: The applicant presented the proposal to the Landmarks Preservation Commission at their public hearing on September 27th. The Commission thought that the lighting was too…
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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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Damaging Proposal for Alterations to and Excavations Under 131 and 131 1/2 Charles Street Rejected!
We are pleased to report that the revised proposal for inappropriate and potentially damaging alterations to, and excavation under, the landmarked 131 Charles Street (1834) and its 19th-century rear carriage…
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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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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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14-16 Fifth Avenue
14-16 Fifth Avenue Tell City Officials to Stop Destruction of Landmarked Buildings like 10 Fifth Avenue We’ve seen a disturbing and growing trend of damage to and destruction of landmarked…
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…Commissioner The City’s Plan to Save Landmarked Buildings from Destruction Needs Teeth and Specifics to Back It Up The city’s recently released plan to address the destruction of landmarked properties…
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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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Op-Ed: Small Businesses and Landmarking Can Help Each Other
…non-landmarked ones. The retail spaces in these landmarked areas also tend to be independently-owned small businesses, as opposed to the chain stores more commonly found in some other parts of…
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4 St. Mark’s Place
…to have a harmonious relationship with the landmarked building. She repeated that the regulation importantly allows the landmarked building to be maintained in perpetuity. She also said that there is…
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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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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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Village Preservation in the Press
…11 Preservationists won’t let Ben Shaoul take the sledge to his landmarked 1830s Greenwich Village house, AM New York, January 11 Judge orders developer to sell old P.S. 64 as…
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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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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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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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55 Gansevoort Street
…meeting on September 14th, 2010. Status as of July 27th, 2010: The applicant presented the proposal to the Landmarks Preservation Commission at a public hearing on July 27th, 2010. Upon…
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685 Washington Street
…construct a seven-story building with a two-story penthouse. This application is closed. Application approved July 27th, 2010. Status as of July 27th, 2010: LATEST NEWS At the July 27th, 2010…
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440 West 14th Street
…S. Maher. Application is to alter ground floor openings and install new infill. This application is closed. Application approved July 27th, 2010. Status as of July 27th, 2010: LATEST NEWS…
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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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City Retreats on Plan to Cut Public Out of the Process, Rolls Back Landmarks Rules Change Plan
…of their proposed changes to the rules governing the landmarks public review and approval process. Specifically, the LPC removed proposed provisions which would have taken significant proposed changes to landmarked…
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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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Plan for Oversized Addition to 827-831 Broadway Returns to Landmarks Preservation Commission 12/8
47 East 12th Street (l.) and 827-831 Broadway. A plan for an oversized addition to the landmarked buildings at 827-831 Broadway (12th/13th Streets) and the adjacent non-landmarked building at 47…
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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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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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What’s At Stake With 14-16 Fifth Avenue — What Does Preservation Mean?
…cherished landmarked buildings. Another example of landmarked buildings stripped of ornament and conjoined in historic districts, at 111 East 10th Street: would approval of demolition of 14-16 Fifth Avenue mean…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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88 MacDougal Street
…applicant will be returning to the Landmarks Preservation Commission with the revised proposal on December 14th, 2010. Status as of July 27th, 2010: The applicant presented the proposal to the…
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Village Independent Democrats Collection: 1955-1969
…March 20th, 1961 Executive Committee meeting notes, opposing “urban renewal” in West Village, asking to appoint new citizens committee on housing philosophy for the city Page 24-25: March 27th, 1961…
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URGENT PRESERVATION ALERT: City Proposes to Cut Landmarks Public Review Process
Plan Would Move Huge Number of Applications Out of Public View, Make Decisions Behind Closed Doors Hearing March 27th The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has proposed a broad set of changes…
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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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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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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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Back from the Edge: the Preservation Success Story at 43 MacDougal Street
43 MacDougal Street, a landmarked 1846 Greek Revival townhouse, sat vacant for decades in the 1990s and 2000s, a thorn in the side of the neighborhood and Village Preservation. Years…
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Overflow Crowd Opposes City Plan to Cut Public Out of Landmarks Review Process; Comment Deadline Extended
…changes to landmarked properties out of the public review process, allowing the decisions to be made behind closed doors without public notification or input. The hearing lasted hours, and while…
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Hudson Square Rezoning and the South Village
…area we had called for being landmarked, with another significant chunk having already been landmarked in 2010. Unfortunately, the southern third of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District was not approved…
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REMINDER: Landmarks Hearing on Nine Partially Demolished 1840s Houses in Gansevoort Market TOMORROW — Write/Testify
…Preservation Commission (LPC) will hold a remote public hearing to consider a revised plan for the partial demolition and “restoration” of nine landmarked 1840s houses at 44-54 9th Avenue/351-355 West…
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A year ago today, the horrible Intro. 775 was heard, later passed
…part of our city. As we and others pointed out, many of our city’s most historic districts were not landmarked in the timeframe capriciously required by Intro. 775, including Mott…
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Thirteen Years Ago, An Idea: Landmark the South Village
…many of us, it is hard to believe that only six years ago, when the first section of this area became landmarked, wide swaths of the Village remained unprotected, including…
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Happy Holidays from Village Preservation — You Make Our Work Possible
…over 3,500 landmarked properties for applications for changes Help support hundreds of local small businesses and cultural and community institutions with our Village Awards, Business of the Month Programs, and…
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Landmarks Hardship Application for West Park Presbyterian Church Withdrawn
…landmarked West Park Presbyterian Church at 165 West 86th Street (Amsterdam Avenue) was withdrawn. Village Preservation had joined countless preservation, community, and civic organizations in questioning and opposing the application….
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Remembering Two Giants of Historic Preservation: Joan Kaplan Davidson and Beverly Moss Spatt
…Village Preservation’s successful efforts have the complex landmarked and listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places, establishment of our Westbeth oral history project, and our Westbeth Open…
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The Roosevelt Building — Where Great History and Architecture Intersect
…just a fraction of a fraction of the buildings we called for to be landmarked in connection with the City’s shady Tech Hub “deal”, and none are in danger of…
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Preservation Organizations from Across New York Demand the City Take Action to Prevent Demolitions of Historic Buildings
We’ve seen a disturbing, growing, and preventable rash of landmarked buildings being endangered or demolished on the city’s watch, with the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission and Department of Buildings failing…
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Beyond The Village and Back: Temple Emanu-El, Reform Movement Builder and Shaker
…which may surprise you. The Landmarked Romanesque Revival Temple Emanu-El Designed by Robert D. Kohn on the former site of the Mrs. William B. Astor House, this Romanesque Revival building…
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Really, Really, Ridiculously Awful (and probably illegal) Billboards
…the advertising agency promoting Zoolander 2 really has a flair for questionably legal billboards, as several people have brought the billboards on the landmarked Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company building on…
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836 Broadway, a Cast Iron Beauty, and Now A Landmark
…Broadway in 1912. NYPL Digital Collections 836 Broadway is one of ten buildings in our neighborhood Village Preservation fought to have landmarked which were landmarked in June of this year,…
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Draper’s Observatories: Moongazing Up and Down the Hudson
In the village of Hastings-on-Hudson, a short train ride away from Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal, lies a nationally landmarked building known as Observatory Cottage. The charming two-floor cottage was once…
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Gansevoort Market
…of this entire neighborhood, opposing several zoning variances and proposed new developments within the historic district which required landmarks approval. Demand the City Stop Demolitions of Landmarked Buildings Over the…
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Landmarks Preservation Commission to Hear Revised Plan for 44-54 9th Ave/351-55 W 14th St After City Allows Developer to Partially Demolish 1840s Houses — Demand Office Tower Approvals Be Rescinded, Real Restoration Take Place
Next Tuesday, February 8, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) will hold a public hearing on and consider a revised plan for the partial demolition and restoration of nine landmarked 1840s…
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Neighborhood History
…for landmark designation in 2014 and was finally landmarked in June, 2019. The LGBT Community Center has been a home and resource hub for the LGBT community in New York…
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Plans Filed for Demolition and Construction of 244 ft. tall Super Luxury Tower at 14-16 Fifth Avenue
…apartment tower in the landmarked Greenwich Village Historic District. The existing buildings contained 20 units of relatively affordable housing; the proposed new building would have just 18 super-luxury units. Because…
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