Carriage Horses, Intro 573-a, Landmarks at Risk
UPDATE! The TIMES is reporting that the hearing is off. Mayor de Blasio’s rushed, behind-the-scenes Horse Carriage deal heads to a vote at City Council this Friday, February 5th, at 12 noon Also on the agenda? Increasing City...
Advocacy, Carriage Horses, Landmarks at Risk
Despite all of the press on the proposed Carriage Horse “compromise”, few in the media have delved into the concerns of those affected by the proposal who are neither in the Horse Carriage nor Pedicab industries. DNAinfo has published an...
Advocacy, Carriage Horses, Landmarks at Risk
Late Sunday night, news broke that Mayor de Blasio had hammered out an agreement with the Horse Carriage operators that would keep many of them in NYC. As the details have begun to unfold, so has the outrage. Under the proposal, the number of horses will reduce...
Advocacy, Board of Standards and Appeals, Carrere and Hastings, First Church of Christ Scientist, Individual Landmark, Landmark West, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Watch List
Dear Neighbor: With so many critical, big-picture policy issues facing our neighborhood and city (eroding zoning protections, weakening the landmarks law, the list goes on), it’s all too easy to lose sight of the trees for the forest. A specific example of a...
American Museum of Natural History, architecture, Landmarks at Risk, NYC, open space, preservation, Theodore Roosevelt Park, Watch List
READ LW’s letter to the Museum outlining our preliminary questions and concerns. To learn more, please visit saveteddyrooseveltpark.org.
American Museum of Natural History, Gilder Center, Landmarks at Risk, Teddy Roosevelt Park, Theodore Roosevelt Park, Watch List
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedienceTheodore Roosevelt from “Latitude and Longitude among Reformers” (1900) Kate Wood addressed a letter to American Museum of Natural History President Ellen Futter outlining some of the...
