Dec 14, 2016 | Backlog 95, IRT Powerhouse, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission, McKim Mead and White, Wish List
Well, Virginia… It’s still a tough world out there. After 37 years on the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s designation calendar, we hoped we’d be saying “Auld Lang Syne to landmarks limbo” for the former IRT...
Mar 3, 2016 | 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...
Feb 24, 2016 | Backlog 95, Individual Landmark, IRT Powerhouse, Landmarks, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC, McKim Mead and White, Robert W. Gibson, Save the Powerhouse, St. Michael's Episcopal Church
Toto, I don’t think we’re DE-CALENDARED anymore… The best news first… After an unprecedented day-long series of votes, during which the public could only sit in silent witness, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission announced that 30...
Feb 17, 2016 | 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 in the...
Feb 8, 2016 | 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 just...
Jul 27, 2015 | IRT Powerhouse, McKim Mead and White
Left, McKim Mead and White’s 1910 Power House for Penn Station,Right, McKim Mead and White’s 1904 Power House for the IRT SubwayWith the IRT Powerhouse still waiting for its landmark status since first being heard by the Landmarks Preservation Commission...
