Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission
In a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio, Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen, and Commissioner Corey Johnson, founder of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, David Mulkins enumerates the frustrations of his group in attempting to protect what he calls “New York City’s...
Landmarks Preservation Commission
Save Chelsea sounds off about the next LPC Chair. Read Laurence Frommer’s five pager on the issue HERE. A sampling of the content includes: “We feel that…working relationship with private developers and their consultants may explain how the...
landmark, memorial, monuments, Uncategorized
On April 27, 1897, the 75th Anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant’s birth, Grant’s Tomb was dedicated. The occasion was a full public holiday, Grant Day, and attracted a throng of spectators to rival Grant’s funeral twelve years earlier. The dedication...
Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC
There has been much speculation of who might take the place of Meenakshi Srinivasan who announced–somewhat suddenly–that June 1st would be her last day of public service. CRAINS featured an opinion piece by the president of the Real Estate Board of New...
education, Keeping the Past for the Future
Last Saturday, Landmark West embarked upon our first ever collaboration with the Children’s Museum of Manhattan in our own Upper West Side. Landmark West’s Education Director, Rudie Hurwitz, coordinated with Nellie A.V. Chaban, the Director of School...
Advocacy, Landmark West, Landmarks Law, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC, preservation
Put Your Preservation Hats Back On! Meenakshi Srinivasan, Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, announced today that she will step down in the face of significant opposition to proposed changes to the LPC Rules. Since her appointment by Mayor de Blasio four...
Advocacy, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Law, Landmarks Preservation Commission
LANDMARK WEST! along with the the Brooklyn Heights Association, The City Club of New York, Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, Historic Districts Council, The Municipal Art Society of New York, The...
