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The voices of caution suggest that preservationists may have designated too much. “Hasn’t all the really good stuff already been protected?” After all, we don’t want to turn our city into a “Colonial Williamsburg on the Hudson.” A recent studio project at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation examined a distinctive part [...]  Salvaged from the wrecker’s ball only to be lost to the public realm a second time? Say it ain’t so. This month’s issue of The Atlantic raises the alarm that many of the decorative architectural elements saved over the years from demolished New York City buildings and given to the sculpture garden at the Brooklyn [...] On May 28, 1985 the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a Certificate of Appropriateness for a tower on the Rizzoli and Coty buildings on Fifth Avenue thus bringing to a close one of the most hotly contested preservation dramas of that decade. With development pressure threatening to destroy the distinctive character of Fifth Avenue, [...] Historic view of Seguine Mansion via Historic House Trust. On this day in 1967 the Seguine Mansion, built in 1837, was designated as an individual landmark of the City of New York. Most visitors to this landmark would remember it as a monumental, white clapboard, two-and-one-half story, eighteen-room mansion seemingly more appropriate to [...] Is it only in New York that restaurants and restaurateurs get obituaries? When Gino A. Circiello, died in December of 2001, his obituary in the New York Times (18-column inches not including the two-column wide photograph) included a quote from a 1974 review of his restaurant by John Canaday. After advancing the theory that in [...] Designated on May 19, 1981, the Upper East Side Historic District is one of the greatest legacies of Kent Barwick’s tenure as Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Even before the passage of the landmarks law there was interest in protecting this important slice of the big Apple. In 1966 public hearings were held on [...] Arguably the best-documented New York City preservation effort is the story of the preservation of Brooklyn Heights. In large part this is due to the efforts of Otis Pratt Pearsall, a legendary preservationist and a born archivist. Not only do we have several rich oral histories with Otis, a major player in that story, as [...] Those interested in the history of preservation in New York City since the passage of the Landmarks Law will welcome the appearance of Marjorie Pearson’s new monograph, “New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (1962-1999): Paradigm for Changing Attitudes Towards Historic Preservation.” For those who might be confused by these dates, prior to the April 1965 [...] Demolition is a New York tradition that continues to thrive despite our Landmarks Law. Here Margot Gayle has captured the demolition of a building on Madison Ave & E 26th Street on February 2, 1968. The two buildings recently lost on Henry Street remind us the work of preservation is far from over. [...] It was 40 years ago on May 10, 1970, that Westbeth, a complex of industrial buildings in Greenwich Village whose pioneering adaptive reuse for artistic and residential purposes helped inspire similar experiments across the country, officially opened. Westbeth’s rich history, including its role as “the first and to this day, largest publicly and privately financed [...] |
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