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Landmarks Preservation Commission, Victor's Cafe

We sounded the call; Bonny K. answered!Below, a neighbor’s letter to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, echoing our call for the LPC to deny the application by a new restaurateur to demolish an existing mural that speaks to our neighborhood’s layered...

A Letter to Landmarks: Preserve the mural at former Victor’s Cafe

Columbus Avenue, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Leslie Albrecht, Media, NY Times, Robert Tierney, Victor's Cafe

Your neighborhood needs you!As reported in our recent blog post, a new restaurant operator has applied to the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to demolish the sculpted mural at 240 Columbus Avenue (formerly home to Victor’s Cafe). This cultural artifact...

One Neighborhood; Many Histories: Protecting the layered history of 240 Columbus Avenue

C of A, Historic Districts Council, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Leslie Albrecht, Media, Victor's Cafe

240-242 Columbus Avenue, at the time of its inclusion in the designation of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District (1990), via the LW! Online Building Database.Where the tastes and culture of Cuba once reigned supreme, a French wine bar/bistro hopes...