Backlog 95, Historic Districts Council, IRT Powerhouse, Landmark West, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC, McKim Mead and White, Watch List, Wish List
Neighborhood Paper CHELSEA NOW has a new article on the LPC Backlog and it quotes our partners at the Historic Districts Council and our very own President, Kate Wood. The bulk of the article addresses the potential for designating the IRT Powerhouse: Preservationists...
American Museum of Natural History, Gilder Center, Landmarks at Risk, Theodore Roosevelt Park, Watch List
Below is the letter sent from LANDMARK WEST! to the American Museum of Natural History regarding the latest stage of their expansion/renovation project. Please contact LANDMARK WEST! by emailing landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org with any questions. February 19, 2016...
Landmarks at Risk, Preservation Under Fire, Watch List
HAPPY YEAR OF THE MONKEY! We requested your captions and you delivered! See the top 10 11 finalists below and email us your favorite! (NOTE, author identities obscured for privacy) 1.) Why is the middle monkey the only one with a belly button? ...
Advocacy, Backlog 95, Beaux Arts, IRT Powerhouse, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC, McKim Mead and White, NY Times, Powerhouse, Robert W. Gibson, Save the Powerhouse, St. Michael's Episcopal Church
New York Times Architecture Critic Michael Kimmelman makes a timely case for NEXT TUESDAY’S BACKLOG HEARING at the LPC (1 Centre Street, 9th FL, N). In today’s column, linked HERE, Kimmelman notes the pressures which pushed the backlog into effect...
Carriage Horses, Intro 573-a, Landmarks, Landmarks at Risk
A former President of the United States of America once proclaimed ‘There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you...
Backlog 95, IRT Powerhouse, Landmarks, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission, McKim Mead and White, Robert W. Gibson, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Wish List
After years of being deferred, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has been in the process of reviewing 95 of its “Backlog” items that have languished on the LPC calendar for more than five years. Although they initially wanted to...
