Congregation Shearith Israel, Landmarks at Risk, Preservation Under Fire, Watch List
Thanks to everyone who packed the room at the July 20, 2016, Community Board 7 meeting! – Please click here to read LW’s full statement in opposition to Congregation Shearith Israel’s (CSI’s) application for special...
Andrew S. Dolkart, Tours and Events, Wish List
Summer Walking Tour with Professor Andrew S. Dolkart! ____________________________________________________________ Featuring the Upper West Side’s newest Landmark & uncharted landmark territory in the West 90’s ...
Andrew S. Dolkart, architect, architectural, architecture, brownstone, Lamb and Rich, Neo Renaissance, New York, New York City, Tours and Events, West End Avenue
On Tuesday, July 12, about 45 friends joined LANDMARK WEST! for a tour of 351 West End Avenue, a beautifully-preserved Lamb and Rich row house dating to the early 1890’s. Andrew Dolkart, professor of historic preservation at Columbia University, led an...
Congregation Shearith Israel, Landmarks at Risk, Preservation Under Fire, Watch List
Public Review of Significant Changes to West 70th Street Condo Project Wednesday, July 20, 7:00 pm Community Board 7, 250 West 87th Street (2nd Floor) – Sole agenda item: an application by Congregation Shearith Israel to the NYC Board of...
CENTRAL dARK, City Council, Intro. 775, preservation, Preservation Under Fire
Landmark Changes in the Dark — Daily News: Opinion, Voice of the People (June 13, 2016) Prof. Jeffrey Kroessler, John Jay College of Criminal Justice LANDMARK WEST! Board Member — On June 8, the City Council passed by a large majority Intro 775-A, a bill...
City Council, Intro. 775, Preservation Under Fire, Watch List
GOVERNMENT IN THE DARK! We can’t make this stuff up. – In a surprise move, City Council fast-tracked its vote on Intro. 775-A, the developer-driven bill to change the NYC Landmarks Law and make it harder than ever to protect the places that matter most to...
CENTRAL dARK, Preservation Under Fire
UPDATE! NYC FAR Legislation Is Off The Table (for now…stay tuned) Click here for a press release _fddf SOME MEMBERS OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE ARE WORKING TO PASS THE BIGGEST CHANGE TO ZONING IN 55 YEARS. A bill to amend the Multiple Dwelling Law by...
Advocacy, Board of Standards and Appeals, Carrere and Hastings, Congregation Shearith Israel, First Church of Christ Scientist, Individual Landmark, Media, When the Process Works
There has been a lot of coverage of last Thursday’s victory for New Yorkers at the Board of Standards and Appeals where the commissioners voted 3-1 to deny the requested variances. Today’s online edition, (and tomorrow’s print edition) pick up...
