The B & B Carousell: Restoring a Piece of Coney Island’s Past
This past weekend, two of Coney Island’s historic and iconic rides, the Cyclone and the Wonder Wheel, opened for the 2009 season. The B & B Carousell, Coney Island’s third operating historic ride,...
View ArticleTwo Carnegie Libraries in the Bronx Designated
The Landmarks Preservation Commission today designated two new landmarks in the Bronx and added two other items to the “calendar” – which is the first step in the designation process. The city’s newest...
View ArticleLandmarks Hearing for IRT Powerhouse Planned for Bastille Day
Preservation advocates received good news last week regarding the future of the Con Ed Powerhouse, located in the northern reaches of Hell’s Kitchen, on the block bounded by 11th Avenue and 59th...
View ArticlePreservation Lobby Day Crowd Urges the City to Support the LPC
Last Wednesday’s Preservation Lobby Day, which took place on the steps of City Hall, drew the largest crowd in the annual event’s three year history. Over a hundred people from all five boroughs...
View ArticleToday at the LPC: St. Vincent’s, Fillmore Place & More
The LPC’s agenda today is full of projects MAS has been following. This morning, the agency addressed the St. Vincent’s hospital and new residential development projects, and this afternoon the...
View ArticleIt’s Raining Landmarks at the LPC
The Landmarks Preservation Commission agenda is packed today with numerous worthy designation items. Check out our slideshow below of the items being calendared, heard, and designated today. MAS is...
View ArticleProspect Heights: The Making of a Historic District
Last week, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the 850-building Prospect Heights Historic District, the largest district designated in two decades. MAS made a video about the process of...
View ArticleLPC Approves St. Vincent’s Residential Redevelopment
The Landmarks Preservation Commission today voted to approve the plans proposed by the Rudin Management Company to redevelop the current site of St. Vincent’s hospital into a residential complex. The...
View ArticleThe Vander Ende-Onderdonk House, A Place That Matters
The Vander Ende-Onderdonk House, located in the Ridgewood section of Queens near the Brooklyn border, is the oldest Dutch Colonial stone house in New York City. It was nominated to the Census of Places...
View ArticleLPC Sets Sight on Expanding Historic Districts
Today is another large Designation Day at the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The focus of today’s hearing is expanding some of the city’s existing historic districts to include worthy buildings...
View ArticleLandmarks-to-Be by the Sea
Even though it’s not yet summer, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has Coney Island on its mind. On Tuesday, March 23, the LPC will hold a public hearing on two important historic buildings...
View ArticlePreservation Community Celebrates 45th Anniversary of Landmarks Law
Photo: Prospect Park boathouse, Brooklyn. Just one of the many historic buildings protected under the New York landmarks law. Photo: Al Rabowitz Last week, MAS President Vin Cipolla joined a host of...
View ArticleMAS Praises Court Decision on First Avenue Estate Buildings
MAS applauds last week’s decision of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, which upheld the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s re-designation of two buildings on the Upper East Side. The...
View ArticleMAS Supports the Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District
Lower Manhattan did not have a monopoly on skyscraper construction in New York City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Across the East River in Brooklyn, another downtown rivaled its...
View ArticleMAS Submits 17 Buildings to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for Evaluation
The New York City Department of City Planning’s proposed East Midtown re-zoning has the potential to dramatically change the area and threaten the mix of old and new buildings that define the...
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