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Date Published:: 2019-06-18
Description:: The Women's Liberation Center, a former firehouse at 243 West 20th Street in Chelsea, was the home of numerous lesbian and feminist organizations from 1972 to 1987.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: LGBTQ (Lesbian / Gay / Bisexual / Transgender / Queer or Questioning)
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2019-06-11
Description:: Designation report for the Roosevelt Building, 841 Broadway, a transitional Romanesque Revival/Renaissance Revival-style building built in 1893-94 and designed by Stephen Decatur Hatch. It is a significant example of the high-rise commercial development along Broadway in the late 19th century.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Manhattan, Architecture, and Buildings
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2019-06-18
Description:: Designation report for The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center which serves the LGBT community through political action, social, and health and wellness programs. It has been housed in the former school at 208 West 13th Street since 1984.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: LGBTQ (Lesbian / Gay / Bisexual / Transgender / Queer or Questioning)
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2021-02-02
Description:: A c. 1848-1851 brick row house significant for its association with Harriet and Thomas Truesdell who lived there from 1851 to 1863 and were active abolitionists in Brooklyn before the Civil War.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Brooklyn, Buildings, and Architecture
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2019-06-18
Description:: No. 31 Cornelia Street was the home of the Caffe Cino a coffee shop and experimental theater venue from 1958-1968. The Caffe Cino is significant as the birthplace of Off-Off Broadway and New York City's first gay theater.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: LGBTQ (Lesbian / Gay / Bisexual / Transgender / Queer or Questioning)
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2019-06-18
Description:: Designation report for the Sunset Park South Historic District which represents the largest collection of well-preserved row houses in the Sunset Park neighborhood that recall Sunset Park's originals and history as a middle-class community.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Architecture, Buildings, and Brooklyn
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2019-06-18
Description:: Designation report for the Sunset Park North Historic District which consists of well-preserved early 20th century row houses and flats, buildings that recall the neighborhood's transformation into a working- and middle-class community.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Architecture, Buildings, and Brooklyn
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2019-06-18
Description:: Designation Report for the Sunset Park 50th Street Historic District which consists of two cohesive rows of remarkably well-preserved brownstone houses between Fourth and Fifth Avenues that represent the turn-of-the-century development of Sunset Park
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Buildings
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2019-10-29
Description:: Somers Brothers Tinware Factory (later American Can Company) was once one of the largest decorated tinware manufacturing complexes in the United States, it remains one of Gowanus's most distinctive industrial buildings.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Architecture, Buildings, and Brooklyn
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2020-09-22
Description:: Designed in 1932 by Walter C. Martin, Superintendent of School Buildings for the New York City Board of Education, Public School 48 was the first school constructed using Martin’s “P” plan and is a fine example and early use of the Art Deco style applied to a community elementary school.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Buildings, Queens, and Architecture
Report Type:: Other

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