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Ten Blocks Makes a Difference, and so does Debby Hirshman

By LANDMARK WEST! Debby Hirshman enters the diner from behind me, and arrives smiling—both of us simultaneously looking forward and back. As we lock eyes in one of the mirrored portions of the otherwise carpeted walls of Café 82 and sit in a hunter-green...

The Endurance of West Park Presbyterian

Advocacy, Individual Landmark, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission

PEW! That was one long hearing! Following an updated presentation by the Presbytery and their team of Consultants, which responded to prior commissioner inquiries, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) shelved much of their scheduled agenda and even...

LPC’s Business Express: THIS THURSDAY

Landmarks Preservation Commission

In order to better serve NYC’s recovery, the LPC launched a new initiative this summer called “Business Express”. Occurring the THIRD THURSDAY of every month, business owners can now set up consultations with LPC staff for added guidance...

Judge Not?

Advocacy, West-Park

Image via New York Times Community Board 7 to vote on West-Park Presbyterian’s hardship application. TUESDAY, JUNE 7th beginning at 6:30 It is NO SECRET that the congregation of West Park Presbyterian has applied to the New York City Landmarks Preservation...

Vail’s View of the UWS Valley

West 72nd Street

By Claudie Benjamin Architect Thomas Vail grew up on a dairy farm in Westchester, NY, where his family had lived for eight generations. Now largely partitioned, it is now known as Vail’s Grove on Peach Lake. In high school, while working in a local engineer’s...

Ten Blocks Makes a Difference, and so does Debby Hirshman

The Endurance of West Park Presbyterian

LPC’s Business Express: THIS THURSDAY

Judge Not?

Vail’s View of the UWS Valley

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