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04/30/2012 - 11:35 |
Posted In: Upper West Side
On Wednesday, May 9, LANDMARK WEST! welcomes Farrow & Ball to their new Upper West Side location with an informational open ho...
Read More: color, design, Farrow & Ball, History, Interior Design, Interiors, Landmarks, NYC, Preservation
04/13/2012 - 14:46 |
Posted In: Farmington Valley
A national historical landmark in Hartford Connecticut, The Mark Twain House & Museum was home to America’s greatest author, S...
02/14/2012 - 18:01 |
Posted In: Upper West Side
Cupid, you have competition this Valentine's Day!
Don your angel wings. Ready your quiver and bow. Grab your cam...
Read More: historic district, Landmarks, Love Your Landmarks, LYL, NYC, Photography, Preservation, Upper West Side, UWS
12/21/2011 - 15:16 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
Since its conception in 2008, FABnyc’s ArtUp program has facilitated the extension of public art to underutilized city spaces, cra...
Read More: Abe Lincoln Jr., Art, Community, Culture, East 4th Street, Ellis Gallgher, john burgerman, Landmarks, les, Oaxaca Taqueria, Public Art, Visual Art
11/30/2011 - 11:15 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
New York City is viewed as a massive melting pot of different cultures and religions. One aspect that is sometimes forgotten about...
Read More: Landmarks, New York Talks and Walks, Tourist Attractions, tours, Walking Tours
10/14/2011 - 14:12 |
Posted In: Chelsea
Have a part of New York you've always wanted to explore?
Open House New York provides New Yorkers with a chance to experience dist...
10/13/2011 - 15:06 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
By Kevin Korber of Village Confidential
Local preservationists are now turning their attention to a portion of South Greenwich Vil...
Read More: Historic Districts, Landmarks, South Village Historic District
10/07/2011 - 12:55 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
Last year CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper, bought an aging firehouse built in 1906 for $4.3 million. Despite some heat from locals and...
Read More: Anderson Cooper, celebrity real estate, Firehouse, Landmarks
10/06/2011 - 11:02 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
Last week we took a look at some of the many Village locations used on the television series Friends. Not content to stop there, h...
Read More: film locations, Landmarks, Puck Building, Will & Grace
10/04/2011 - 09:00 |
Posted In: Park Slope & Prospect Heights
A vintage mansion that overlooks Prospect Park has been sold after being vacant for thirty years, Brownstoner repor...
09/22/2011 - 10:45 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
This is the year for tourists and locals to embrace the landmarks of Lower Manhattan, especially with the recently opened 9/11 Mem...
09/15/2011 - 16:51 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
Though nineteenth and early twentieth century townhouses and tenements seem to dominate the East and West Villages, the neighborho...
Read More: Butterfield House, Landmarks, Townhouses
09/12/2011 - 10:31 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
By: Andito
Last week we tantalized you with an incredible photograph of 3rd Avenue between 10th and 11th Streets taken by Berenice...
09/06/2011 - 13:28 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
By Kevin Korber of Village Confidential
The East Village townhouse at 331 E. 6th St. was one of the oldest structures in the...
Read More: 331 East 6th Street, Demolition, Historic Districts, Landmarks, Townhouses
09/01/2011 - 14:39 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
It was big news last year that Anderson Cooper purchased the historic firehouse at 84 W. 3rd St. in the South Village with intenti...
Read More: Anderson Cooper, celebrity real estate, Firehouse, Landmarks
08/26/2011 - 13:59 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
When the origins of the New York City Landmarks Law can be found with the click of a button sitting at home on your computer, it i...
08/22/2011 - 11:05 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
Last year, CNN news anchor, Anderson Cooper, bought a century old firehouse on West 3rd Street that had some local residents...
Read More: Anderson Cooper, Firehouse, Landmarks
08/21/2011 - 15:47 |
Posted In: Chelsea
By Kevin Korber of Village Confidential
The Art Deco warehouse at 437 W. 13th St. was purchased two years ago, with plans to...
Read More: 437 West 13th Street, Demolition, Landmarks, Meatpacking District
08/18/2011 - 10:17 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
The science department get ready to get jealous. Morris Adjmi Architects with their knack for mixing modern with old style has jus...
Read More: Landmarks, LEED certification, Morris Adjmi Architects, NYU, NYU Law, Washington Square Park
08/11/2011 - 15:56 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
The sight of striking Verizon workers near GVSHP’s offices (as well as all over New York) reminds us of the long and storied histo...
Read More: Labor Disputes, Landmarks, unions, Webster Hall
08/11/2011 - 10:39 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
Marking the 100th anniversary of his birth, today Tablet printed a thoughtful piece on pioneering preservation architect Giorgio...
Read More: Giorgio Cavaglieri, Jefferson Market Library, Landmarks
08/10/2011 - 11:10 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
As previously reported by NearSay, the old Citizens Savings Bank at 54-58 Bowery, located near the Manhattan Bridge, was being con...
08/05/2011 - 17:58 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
This weekend, thousands of twins from across North America will descend upon Twinsburg, Ohio for the annual Twins Festival.
Not to...
Read More: Cafe Reggio, Historic Districts, historical buildings, Landmarks, Peanut Butter & Co
08/04/2011 - 10:14 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
With all the brash new starchitect-designed buildings that have sprouted up in NoHo and the East Village over the past decade–40 B...
Read More: Bayard-Condict Building, Landmarks, noho
08/03/2011 - 10:00 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
Included within the boundaries of the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District...
07/29/2011 - 17:11 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
By Andito – July 29, 2011
Its irrepressible mid-century modern façade of opaque black glass is punctuated by cheery yellow balcone...
Read More: Alphabet City, Burger-Klein Building, Landmarks, Patterson Silk Building
07/26/2011 - 17:31 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
By Elizabeth – July 26, 2011
We’ve long been curious about the history of the All Saints Ukrainian Church, which we pass by ever...
Read More: All Saints Ukrainian Church, churches, Landmarks
07/26/2011 - 10:56 |
Posted In: Chelsea
After being purchased by developing group, Jamestown Properties, plans to add two new towers to the Chelsea Market have caused a s...
07/22/2011 - 12:52 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
By Sheryl – July 21, 2011
As recent news about the painting over of the sign for the Fat Black Pussy Cat on Minetta Street can at...
Read More: Block Drug, C.O. Bigelow, Ear Inn, Fedora's, Landmarks, Neon Signs, Project Neon, Village Gate, White Horse Tavern
07/21/2011 - 17:13 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
Our efforts to help preserve the history and character of the East Village will reach a critical point this coming Tuesday, July 2...
07/19/2011 - 14:18 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
By Elizabeth – July 19, 2011
We were intrigued to discover late last week that 264 E. 7th St., one of our favorite houses in the E...
Read More: Alphabet City, Community Board 3, Landmarks
07/19/2011 - 10:18 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
By Drew – July 18, 2011
Just last week the famed Copacabana nightclub reopened yet again. At its newest incarnation at Times Squa...
Read More: Landmark Preservation Commission, Landmarks, Webster Hall
07/15/2011 - 11:02 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
By Elizabeth July 14, 2011
Readers who have been involved in our efforts to support the City’s two proposed East...
Read More: East Village Historic Districts, Fourth Arts Block, Landmarks
07/14/2011 - 14:33 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
In an age of innovation and progress, the renovation of the "model of modernism" on Fifth Avenue has been halted.
The building at...
07/14/2011 - 13:11 |
Posted In: Upper East Side
Landmark alert! Once a home away from home for girls working in the Big Apple, the Barbizon Hotel is in the running to be named th...
07/12/2011 - 10:31 |
Posted In: Chelsea
We speak often of historic districts, individual landmarks and national and state register sites but, what do those terms really...
06/30/2011 - 17:21 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
On Tuesday the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated 154 West 14th Street, at the southeast corner of Seventh Avenue, an of...
06/30/2011 - 10:20 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
Yesterday was an exciting day at the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). In addition to calendaring the two proposed historic...
Read More: Federal Style Homes, Hudson Square, Landmarks
06/30/2011 - 10:18 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, centered around Lower Second Avenue south of St. Mark's Place, and the 26-building...
06/29/2011 - 12:28 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
The grand midcentury interior of the Manufaturers Hanover Trust Company building on Fifth Avenue has been demolished despite...
06/29/2011 - 09:12 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
From colonial times to now, Tribeca has flipped its residences from farms to houses, to townhouses, to stores, to warehouses, to l...
Read More: History, Landmarks, Penthouses
06/28/2011 - 13:20 |
Posted In: Upper West Side
Destruction of a few Upper West Side buildings has some residents very upset, claiming the neighborhood’s historic charm is disapp...
06/27/2011 - 18:12 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
By Kevin Korber of Village Confidential
On the corner of MacDougal Street and King Street is an abandoned building, a triplex that...
Read More: 43 MacDougal Street, Abandoned Buildings, Landmarks
06/24/2011 - 15:46 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
This is post number five in a series devoted to our ongoing research of 143-145 Ave. D, documenting all of the detours and discove...
06/24/2011 - 11:04 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
The former AIG headquarters on 70 Pine St. named a city landmark this week has been sold for $205 million, according to Crain’s.
R...
Read More: 70 Pine Street, AIG, Landmarks, Nathan Berman, Ronald Bruckner
06/23/2011 - 12:40 |
Posted In: Upper West Side
The congregation of the Upper West Side's newest Individual Landmark – the West-Park Presbyterian Church on Amsterdam Avenue at We...
Read More: churches, Landmarks, Octavio Brunetti, West-Park Presbyterian Church
06/21/2011 - 12:15 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
70 Pine St. will receive a crowning achievement on Tuesday as it becomes a city landmark, reports the New York Post. The building...
06/17/2011 - 10:11 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
One of the world’s most recognized buildings is stepping into the 21st century with its final stages of renovations. According to...
Read More: Empire State Building, Landmarks, Otis Elevator Company, Renovations
06/14/2011 - 13:50 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
They are the next generation of New York City conservationists, and the wee ones are only in the second grade. A group of sec...
06/09/2011 - 17:56 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
LACKING LANDMARK PROTECTIONS, LAST LINK TO HISTORIC 60's MUSIC VENUE PAINTED OVER IN THE SOUTH VILLAGE
Last week, anothe...
06/02/2011 - 12:55 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
Call it whatever you’d like: antique, vintage, or historic. If one thing is for certain, the Village is really, really old. Old by...
05/31/2011 - 15:28 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
Good news — the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has agreed to expand the boundaries of their proposed East Village/Low...
05/20/2011 - 17:18 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
South Village Landmarking Urgently Needed
The board of the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) was scheduled to vote last night on severa...
05/19/2011 - 11:03 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
The architecture of New York, as it is anywhere else in the world, serves as a testament to the history of the location, and, in t...
Read More: Automobile Row, Landmarks, Landmarks Preservation Commission
05/18/2011 - 07:30 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
The Plaza’s Edwardian Room, designed by Wm. Baumgarten & Co., had its heyday during its restaurant years, but it now...
Read More: Edwardian Room, Hotel Restaurants, Landmarks, The Plaza
05/11/2011 - 14:28 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
The East 54th Street Bath and Gymnasium, a former bathhouse in midtown Manhattan has been deemed a historic landmark by the New Yo...
Read More: bathhouses, Landmarks, Landmarks and Preservation Commission
05/10/2011 - 15:45 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
As we have recently reported, the City's Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is considering proposing two historic districts i...
Read More: Historic Districts, Landmarks, Landmarks Preservation Commission
05/10/2011 - 12:43 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
Did you know that the iconic department store Macy’s actually started out right here in the Village on the southeast corner of Six...
Read More: Ladies Mile, Landmarks, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Macy's
05/05/2011 - 16:49 |
Posted In: Upper West Side
In 1980, with the founding of the Central Park Conservancy, our City's first Scenic Landmark, Central Park – designated in 1974 –...
05/01/2011 - 17:24 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
By Kevin Korber of Village Confidential
After months of surveying and examining the neighborhood, the city’s Landmark Preservation...
04/28/2011 - 10:09 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
Almost 80 years ago, President Herbert Hoover officially opened the Empire State Building all the way from Washington D.C. Su...
Read More: Empire State Building, Landmarks, LEED, Skyscrapers
04/27/2011 - 14:04 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
At a meeting for affected property owners last night, the Landmarks Preservation Commission unveiled two small study areas for pot...
04/22/2011 - 14:44 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
This week marks the 180th anniversary of the incorporation of New York University, which was chartered in April 1831 as the City U...
04/21/2011 - 16:51 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
Next week the Landmarks Preservation Commission will be holding a property owner’s meeting to discuss two potential historic distr...
04/20/2011 - 16:28 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
A few days ago, the venerable Mars bar on the corner of Second Avenue and East 1st Street painted “Thanks for the memories, miss y...
Read More: Greenwich Village Society, Landmarks, Mars Bar, Zoning Laws
04/20/2011 - 11:42 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
Much fuss has been made of the news that the adjacent “sister” houses at 18 and 20 Jones Street are both currently on the market....
Read More: Greenwich Village Society, Historic Districts, Landmarks
04/19/2011 - 17:48 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
By Kevin Korber of Village Confidential
Monument Lane, a new restaurant on Greenwich Avenue in the building that formerly housed t...
04/18/2011 - 10:51 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
The Empire State Building is already a legend in New York's old-school architecture, but its latest investment is setting the exam...
Read More: Anthony Malkin, Empire State Building, Landmarks, LEED, Malkin Holdings, Skyscrapers
04/15/2011 - 10:29 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
GVSHP has been working with the Historic Districts Council, the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez, and...
04/15/2011 - 10:28 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
Scores of neighbors, parents, and preservationists joined the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and Councilwoman...
04/14/2011 - 13:54 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
After a rally and candlelight vigil hoping to save 35 Cooper Square, developer Arun Bhatia concluded to organize a meeting where h...
Read More: 35 Cooper Square, Arun Bhatia, Cooper Square, Landmarks
04/11/2011 - 11:53 |
Posted In: West Village & Greenwich Village
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation rallied over the weekend to recognize a Greenwich Village neighborhood bec...
04/01/2011 - 07:05 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
One of the most iconic buildings of New York's skyline is headed for landmark status with a hearing set for May 10th, but what the...
Read More: 70 Pine Street, Financial District, Kumho Investment Bank, Landmarks, Young Woo
03/23/2011 - 19:01 |
Posted In: Upper West Side
The hearing room was filled to capacity (and beyond!) on Tuesday as the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) held the first of,...
03/23/2011 - 07:46 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
At a public hearing at City Hall on Monday, the NYC Landmarks Commission (LPC) named the Japan Society building, at 333 E. 47th St...
03/16/2011 - 13:19 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
NearSay previously reported on the struggling fight to preserve 35 Cooper Square. Now, the fight to save the old Citizens Savings...
03/09/2011 - 18:55 |
Posted In: East Village & LES
In chipping away at the gargantuan task of researching the history of all the buildings in the East Village, it’s always nice when...
Read More: Greenwich Village Society, historical buildings, Landmarks
02/16/2011 - 14:39 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
Due to the combined efforts of the Landmarks Preservation Commission and landlord, Vornado Realty Trust, the historical gem at 510...
02/02/2011 - 12:42 |
Posted In: Midtown & Hells Kitchen
The landmark building at 510 Fifth Avenue has had its outside preserved due to its historical context, unfortunately that does not...
Read More: Fifth Avenue, landmark status, Landmarks, Vornado Realty Trust
01/21/2011 - 14:08 |
Posted In: SoHo TriBeCa & FiDi
Historic, gorgeous, and available for anyone to make their home, 75 Murray Street is one of the few cast-iron buildings still arou...
12/06/2010 - 13:04 |
Posted In: Upper West Side
The Landmarks Preservation Commission is considering a proposal that would protect 790 buildings between 70th Street and 106th Str...
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