The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday expanded the Greenwich Village historic district, adding 235 buildings and 11 blocks between West 4th and West Houston streets, bordered by Sixth and Seventh avenues.
This extension—on the heels of a 2006 addition of 45 buildings to the area initially landmarked in 1969—brings the historic district to a total 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 Penn Club is now a landmark.
On Tuesday, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the West 44th Street club, once the Yale Club, restricting changes to the building for generations to come. Built in 1901, it's been the Penn Club for two decades.
The LPC also added to its calendar, an early step Read More
The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission considered on Tuesday a proposal by Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School to construct a rear extension in the backyard of 20-30 West 94th Street, with preservationists and local residents criticizing the project.
The school was represented by Peter Samton, a partner at architecture firm Gruzen Samton, who presented slides depicting the Read More
Today, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission was expected to add the University of Pennsylvania’s club at 30 West 44th Street to the agency’s calendar, an act that starts the landmark process and typically results in designation.
The building, an Read More
Mayor Bloomberg apparently likes Modernist buildings.
The Modernist, multitiered 488 Madison Avenue, once the home of Look Magazine, is on the road toward landmark status as the Bloomberg-controlled Landmarks Preservation Commission is expected Tuesday to begin the designation process for the 1949 building. The move is the latest in a series of designations of Modernist Read More
The full list of approved landmarks, per a spokeswoman from the LPC:
The buildings, which create a new “Lamartine Place” historic district, run from 333 to 359 West 29th Read More
Ultimately, the decision rests entirely with the city’s Read More
The action comes in connection with NYU’s plans to expand its space in the city by 6 million square feet in the next Read More
The site, 19-25 West 20th Street, is in the Ladies' Mile Historic District, and any new construction would need consent of the commission. The Read More
Today the Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously agreed to put the New York Public Library’s biggest private donor in history, Steven Schwarzman, on a pedestal--or, more accurately, allow his name to be inscribed on the two most prominent stone pedestals flanking the main entrance on Fifth Avenue and three other B-list locations.
What, you were expecting some Read More
