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It is true that this 45th anniversary blog has devoted significant space to New York City’s historic districts. With 102 historic districts and 16 extensions to historic districts, it is hard to let a month go by without recognizing the districts designated in that month over all these years. February is no exception. On February [...]  Last Thursday night at the Neighborhood Preservation Center, preservation educator, activist and author Eric Allison spoke on the newly released book he co-authored with Lauren Peters: Historic Preservation and the Livable City. Only into its early chapters, I can already say the book is a welcomed addition to the field and will be of interest [...] Guest Blog By Ben Baccash, Historic Preservation Researcher, Writer & Consultant Even at the age of forty-five, the New York City Landmarks Law is often said to be poorly understood by the public. Some hypothesize that this is because of the law‟s rather complicated application and cumbersome process. Others say it‟s the public‟s lack of [...] Guest blog by Ben Baccash, Historic Preservation Researcher, Writer & Consultant Metaphors of botox and facelifts abounded at the 2011 Fitch Forum, asking whether or not the New York City Landmarks Law needed to be updated or improved at the ripe age of 45. But as the day progressed, it became clearer that New York [...] The decade of the 1980s was a one of opportunity and threat for preservation in New York City. One of the most vexing issues of that period, and one that remains with us today, is the challenge of preserving our landmark houses of worship. Out of the landmark religious wars of that decade—the battle over [...] Preservationists everywhere should take some hope from recent developments in St. Petersburg, Russia. In true David Versus Goliath (Boris versus Goliath?) form, the protests of preservationists, architects, urbanists, and a host of others seem to have succeeded in leading to the relocation of the Okhta Tower, designed by RMJM London for Gazprom to outside of [...] Proposed Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District. From the Landmarks Preservation Commission. http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/ppt/borohallhearingPPT.pdf In December I dropped in on the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission’s pubic hearing on the proposed designation of the Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District in Brooklyn. It had been years since I had been at such a hearing and I [...] Preservationists are so busy we tend not to spend as much time as we should thinking about where we have been and where we are going. Take a Saturday off from your current struggles and join an assortment of preservationists from around the nation to reflect on the status of preservation law. Panelists include [...] Guest Blog by Ben Baccash The New York Times recently published an article entitled “5,000 Donors Help Louvre Buy a Painting”. In less than a month, thousands of people from different countries across the globe donated a total of $1.3 million via the internet to the Louvre for the purchase of “The Three Graces”, a [...] With the holiday season in full swing, attention is appropriately diverted away from subjects relating to the last 45 years of preservation history and their importance to us today, and focused on other matters at hand. In that spirit, this blog is taking time off and will reappear January 18 for the final quarter of [...] |
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