At last count, there are over 40 neighborhoods throughout the city that have requested landmarks designation and are waiting for a response from the Landmarks Commission. Unless the Commission gets the funding, the staff and the political independence it needs to do its job, how many of these historic neighborhoods will be left?

Landmarks In Waiting...Or On Death Row?
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Guests filling the former Hotel Des Artistes ballroom, donated for the party by LA PALESTRA, Center for Preventative Medicine

PS 87 Principal Jacqui Goetz with LW board president Arlene Simon and treasurer Jeanne Martowski

The delicious food donated by Rosa Mexicano

A sample of the evening's libations

LW boardmember Elizabeth Starkey with guests

PS 87 teachers

Kate Wood, Executive Director of LW!

Alexis Penzell, NYC Department of Education superintendent

Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the United States District Court (SDNY)

Whitney North Seymour, Jr., Preservation Citizen Awardee

Wint Aldrich, New York State Deputy Commissioner for Historic Preservation

Steve Cowie, Pomander Walk co-op board, and Daniel Allen, Cutsogeorge Tooman & Allen Architects

Michael Laub, G&L Realty and Fernando Ferrer, former Bronx Borough President and

Andrew S. Dolkart, the James Marston Fitch Associate Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University

Eric Reiff and Amy Newman, 610 West End Avenue co-op board

Susan Tunick, President of the Friends of Terra Cotta

Sanford Malter, Architecture Restoration Conservation, P.C.

Arlene Simon, President of LW!