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A particularly hot summer even makes thoughts of February in New York City seem welcomed! So imagine a blast of cool air accompanying this save James Marston Fitch, 1946. Photo courtesy of Martika Fitch Sawin. the date notice. Saturday February 5, 2011 promises to be an interesting day for those interested in [...]  On July 14, 1966, under the headline, “A Vision of Rome Dies: Shorn of Its Penn Station during demolition. Photo by Peter Moore © Est. of Peter Moore/VAGA, NYC from The Destruction of Penn Station (D.A.P., 2000.) Proud Eagles, Last Facade of Penn Station Yielding to Modernity,” Ada Louise Huxtable wrote the following “obituary” [...] 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Urban Center and also the year of its closing. Launched in 1980 by the Municipal Art Society, “Many of the big debates over urban design and planning in New York were talked about and advanced” at the Urban Center, noted Vin Cipolla, current president of [...] July 8, 1980 was a day of celebration in the Bronx—it was the day that the Longwood Historic District was designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The importance of Longwood was noted in 1989 by Roberta Brandes Gratz in her book The Living City: How America’s Cities Are Being Revitalized by Thinking Small in a [...] To help take your mind off the soaring mercury, think ahead to the cool of December and mark December 1st on your calendar for a landmark preservation event. Which one, you wonder? A few hints: it has become a cherished preservation tradition. It is the day all preservationists wake up early to honor the memory [...] Antonin Dvorak Statue by sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, Stuyvesant Park, New York City. Photo courtesy Traian Stanescu via the Dvorak American Heritage Association. “Lessons from a Painful Loss,” the June 20 entry in this blog noting the anniversary of the June 20, 1991 vote by the New York City Council to reverse the landmark [...]
June 29, 1988 picketing of Penn Station to protest Mayor Koch's proposed changes to the Landmarks Law. Kurt Vonnegut reading the Tom Wolfe passage on Penn Station. Note James Marston Fitch left of the "Protect our Past" placard and Ray Rubinow at lower left. Photo credit Steven Tucker. Over the [...] June 26, 1978 is indeed a landmark date in the history of preservation. On this day the United States Supreme Court upheld New York City’s landmarks law in the case of Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City. The long held fear that New York City’s Landmarks Law would face a legal challenge that [...] Earlier this blog focused attention on Marjorie Pearson’s new monograph covering the history of the Landmarks Preservation Commission through the vantage point of her years in its Research Department. Now there is a companion piece looking at the Commission’s history through the perspective of its enforcement role. This new contribution comes in the form of [...] It was on June 20, 1991 that the New York City Council, newly anointed with the power (previously held by the Board of Estimate) to overturn landmark designations , exercised its new authority to reverse the landmark designation of 327 East 17th Street, the house where the great composer Antonin Dvorak lived from 1892-95. The [...] |
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