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Deadline EXTENDED!
Write to City Planning by 5pm on Thursday, April 30 to oppose Mayor de Blasio's Proposed ReZoning plan Email: AHOUSING@planning.nyc.gov (please cc. landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org) Or send letters to: Robert Dobruskin Director, Environmental Assessment and Review...
Community Testimony on the Proposed Zoning for Quality and Affordability Text Amendment
Preservation Groups, Community Leaders and Elected Officials meet for aPress Conference in front of City Hall, March 25, 2015 (Photo: Sean Khorsandi)Beverly Moss SpattPh.D., Urban PlanningFormer Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (1974-1978)Former Member...
LANDMARK WEST’s Letter to the Department of City Planning on the Proposed Citywide Rezoning
Here is, in full, LANDMARK WEST's letter to Carl Weisbrod, Chair of the New York City Planning Commission, regarding the NYC Planning Proposal titled 'Zoning for Quality and Affordability' Dear Chair Weisbrod: LANDMARK WEST! is deeply concerned about the damaging...
PRESERVATION ALERT! Neighborhood Character is Under Threat!
PRESERVATION ALERT!NYC CITYWIDE REZONING PROPOSALWOULD WEAKEN HARD-WONCONTEXTUAL ZONING PROTECTIONS,RAISE HEIGHT LIMITSThirty years ago, in response to incongruous Tower-in-the-Park development promoted by New York's 1961 Zoning Resolution, Upper West Siders...
WRITE TO LPC! Tell them PRESERVE, DON’T DESTROY First Church!
Copy and paste the following text in an email and send it to LPC Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan at comments@lpc.nyc.gov, and please "cc" landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org March 6, 2015 Meenakshi Srinivasan, Chair New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission 1 Centre...
UPDATE: First Church of Christ, Scientist (361 CPW)
On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a Public Meeting on 361 Central Park West where architects presented their plans for multiple alterations to the exterior of this Individual Landmark, designed by Carrere & Hastings. Please...
Tom Wolfe’s 2005 Piece on 2 Columbus Circle
Check out Tom Wolfe's article in New York Magazine (July 4-11, 2005) about the battle for to save 2 Columbus Circle: Tom Wolfe quotes former landmarks commissioner Richard Olcott, who in an email to then LPC chair Bob Tierney, said: “The design community needs to...
The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same
From "Empress of West 67th Street," New York Magazine (November 5, 1984).From "West Side Warrior Hands Over Reins," Wall Street Journal (January 16, 2015).Simon's full valedictory speech before the Landmarks Preservation Commission, delivered December 9,...
Over 100 Buildings Heard, But Not Designated by LPC, Originally Scheduled to be De-Calendared on Tuesday, December 9, 2014. LPC has since withdrawn the de-calendaring proposal. New date to be determined.
All Five Boroughs Building Name, Address, Year Calendared by LPC Upper West Side, ManhattanIRT Powerhouse, 11th Ave at West 58th-59th Sts, 1979St. Michael's Episcopal Church Complex, 227 West 99th St, 1980ManhattanLoew's 175th...
NYS Senator Tony Avella Finds LPC’s Plan Outrageous! Read on!
New York State Senator Tony Avella writes to Mayor de Blasio and Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan of the Landmarks Preservation Commission "in regards to the LPC decision to remove a large number [96] of potential landmark locations from the calendar as of December 9th. I...
