While the Landmarks Preservation Commission is usually the great bane of architects and developers, it seems the commissioners have at least one soft spot in their preservationist hearts for, of all things, math. Read More
Downtown Brooklyn developers and cooperators, with a hefty helping hand from the real estate lobby, threw everything they could at the Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District, a new landmarking effort aimed at saving the area's historic highrises. In the end, the preservationists won out, as a City Council subcommittee voted unanimously yesterday to approve the historic district, all but ensuring its passage by the full council on February 1. Read More
Sometimes landmark battles have happy endings. Read More
Last week, Mayor Bloomberg and Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstal made a bet on yesterday's AFC Championship game, as politicians are wont to do. Part of the deal was the all-too-expected community service project in the opposing city, part of the deal was a little more interesting, if cheesy. It was agreed that a team Read More
Steven Spinola, the all-powerful head of the Real Estate Board of New York, seems to think so.
He told the Post that "landmarking the entire city does not leave opportunity to grow," and he has a point that there won't be much of the Upper West Side left that is not protected by Read More
The media crowd outnumbered the Landmarks Preservation Commission 10 to one at the Tuesday morning vote for 45-47 Park Place.
The five-story building—a prominent example of the store and loft structures that dominated the drygoods warehouse districts of Lower Manhattan—is just not worthy of landmark status, the commissioners agreed. And it’s not the Commission’s job to Read More
The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission has made a quick turnaround on the controversial site for a potential ground zero mosque, and will hold a vote on it this coming Tuesday, Aug. 3—during what will likely be a very calm public meeting.
The Commission held a hearing two weeks ago to discuss the potential landmark status Read More
The Landmarks Preservation Commission today unanimously added the 21-story “Look Building” to its list of midtown landmarks. The white-brick, multi-tiered office tower, located at 488 Madison Avenue, between 51st and 52nd streets, was under consideration by the commission after its staff completed a survey of around 500 midtown buildings.
Designed by architecture firm Emery Read More
Rick Lazio made a rare appearance at the Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing Tuesday afternoon to speak in favor of a 5-story Italian Renaissance-style building in lower Manhattan.
“I urge the commission to grant landmark status to 45 Park Place,” the gubernatorial candidate began in his public testimony at Hunter College.
But Read More
A City Council vote is slated for Wednesday on the hard-fought fate of historic designation for the red-brick West Park Presbyterian church on 86th Street and Amsterdam, and the last-minute requests for support and opposition have come in.
Curbed has a letter sent out by the church's pastor, Rev. Robert Brashear, who asks Council members to Read More
The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission voted on Tuesday to hold public hearings for six Manhattan sites, a step that typically results in designating the properties as landmarks.
The buildings include two Federal-style brick houses at 190 and 192 Grand Street in Little Italy, constructed in 1820. The pasta company Piemonte Ravioli occupies the ground floor at Read More
The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission is taking the first step toward creating a historic district on the Grand Concourse, a four-and-a-half mile thoroughfare in the Bronx.
The district would include 73 buildings, from 153rd to 167th streets, according to Elisabeth de Bourbon, spokeswoman for the LPC.
The step, known as calendaring, will be followed by public hearings.
The Read More
The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission is taking the first step toward creating a historic district on the Grand Concourse, a four-and-a-half mile thoroughfare in the Bronx.
The district would include 73 buildings, from 153rd to 167th streets, according to Elisabeth de Bourbon, spokeswoman for the LPC.
The step, known as calendaring, will be followed by Read More
The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday designated the Paramount Hotel, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and two Eighth Avenue townhouses as landmarks.
The Paramount Hotel, at 235-245 West 46th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, was built in 1927 and 1928, according to Community Board 5, which endorsed the landmarking in June. Theater architect Read More
