Broadway, Daytonian in Manhattan, Landmarks at Risk
By Tom Miller, aka the Daytonian in Manhattan Reproduced with permission. Original Entry from September 15, 2015 HERE. On September 1, 1883 The Real Estate Record and Builders’ Guide reported on two planned four story rowhouses at Nos. 26 and 28...
#votersagainstsupertalls, ABC Watch, CENTRAL dARK, Landmarks at Risk, Watch List
Charles Bagli of The New York Times cited the postcard at left (dreamed up during a summer visit to the other Grand Canyon in Arizona) in his article The Empire State Building May Soon Have Another Rival… which went live on Friday evening. The journalist...
American Museum of Natural History, Gilder Center, Landmarks at Risk, Watch List
A legal action spearheaded by neighborhood group Community United to Protect Theodore Roosevelt Park has been rejected by the New York Supreme Court. GOTHAMIST notes that there is still potential for an appeal. New York Supreme Court Justice Lynn...
#votersagainstsupertalls, Landmarks at Risk
Gary Stern takes a look at the (sometimes) foreign, but always MEGA money in play buying up New York Real Estate. In conversation with LW! executive director Sean Khorsandi, and our colleagues at the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation, he asks...
Advocacy, Landmarks, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Law, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Preservation Under Fire, When the Process Works
Taking Exception to the Rules Public Impact on the Proposed LPC Rules Changes The Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing room was busy, hot, and brightly sunlit yesterday afternoon. One rumbling A/C unit tried,...
#votersagainstsupertalls, Landmarks at Risk, Preservation Under Fire, State of New York
It’s YOUR call… Although removed from New York State budget negotiations, the provision to eliminate the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) cap was reconstituted into Senate Bill 6760. This bill passed...
