architecture, Gene A. Norman, Historic District, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Landmarks Law, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC, NYC, preservation, Upper West Side, UWS
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Gene A. Norman testifying in 1984 to protect the NYC Landmarks Law. Credit: Albany Press, 1984. In 1988, Gene presided over a 16-hour marathon public hearing at the Fourth Universalist Society, which led to the 1990 designation...
Advocacy, Historic District, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Landmarks, LPC, New York City, Riverside Drive, Upper West Side, West End Avenue
If Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis could do it, so can you. Please SIGN LW’s PETITION to the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) Chair Tierney and ask for the designation of the extensions to Manhattan’s West End Historic Districts (HDs). Here’s...
architecture, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Landmarks, Landmarks Law, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Manhattan, New York, New York City, Riverside Drive, Upper West Side, WEA, West End Avenue
In 1985, when LANDMARK WEST! was founded to advocate for more widespread protection of our neighborhood’s architectural heritage, the Upper West Side only had 337 designated landmarks.With the recent Riverside-West End HD Extension I designation, approximately...
