The stunning reception room and banking hall for the Irving Trust and Bank Company, this unusual and elaborately tiled space, completed
in 1931, represents the work of two masters: architect Ralph Walker and muralist Hildreth Meière.
The Frederick Douglass Memorial Park is the only extant, non-sectarian cemetery in New York City that was founded by and for African Americans at a time when discrimination and segregation excluded them from other cemeteries.
Designed by McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin for the Brooklyn Edison Company and built between 1922-1926, this highly visible Renaissance Revival style building is a notable landmark in the civic and commercial center of Brooklyn.
A French Renaissance Revival style skyscraper designed by Warren & Wetmore in 1920-22. It was one of the first skyscrapers in this section of Fifth Avenue and one of the earliest buildings to conform to the groundbreaking 1916 Building Zone Resolution.
The Old Croton Aqueduct Walk is a linear park located on top of a historic water system constructed between 1837 and 1842 to provide water to the city. The walk has been a beloved open space for residents since the 19th century.
The New York Public Library, Tremont Branch, designed by the prominent architectural firm of Carrère and Hastings, opened in 1905 is an impressively intact Carnegie library that has been a significant part of the community since its construction.
935 St. Nicholas Avenue, an architecturally distinct early 20th-century Neo-Gothic Revival style apartment building in the Washington Heights neighborhood, was the well-established home to jazz trailblazers, Duke Ellington, and
Noble Sissle, each for over 20 years.
The Renaissance Revival-style Hotel Cecil was home to Minton’s Playhouse, the legendary nightclub where the pivotal style “bebop” emerged and flourished in the 1940s, redefining jazz and American music.
Designed by George Keister and developed by George M. Cohan, this Italian Renaissance Revival-style theater and commercial building featured Broadway acts in its early “Subway Circuit” years before hosting a succession of
clubs that were central to the Bronx’s innovative and influential Latin music
Designed by notable New York architects Herts & Tallant and built in 1908 prior to the adoption of the standardized Model Fire House Plan, the Engine Company 88/ Ladder Company 38 Firehouse is a rare example of the firm’s work in civic architecture and the only known example of Prairie School- in NY
This architecturally significant Italian Renaissance Revival-style building, designed by Frank J. Helmle in 1913, served as the Bronx Central Office of the FDNY’s Fire Alarm Telegraph Bureau beginning in 1923 and continues to play an active role in fire communication in the Bronx.
A three-story school building built 1849-50 by the Public-School Society of New York City and used by African American students and teachers from 1860 to 1894.
A striking collection of architecturally significant row houses along Linden Street between Broadway and Bushwick Avenue that stands out in the neighborhood as an intact and distinctive example of South Bushwick’s late-19th-century development, with a variety of complementary styles.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams today appointed Stephen Chu, Mark Ginsberg, and Angie Master to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), and designated Bill Heinzen as his representative on the New York City Public Design Commission (PDC).
The Melrose Parkside Historic District is a remarkably cohesive and intact group of 38 single-family row houses and two-family duplexes located on Parkside Avenue between Flatbush and Bedford avenues in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Designed in the Medieval Revival style by William H. Gompert in 1924-25, with Art Deco-style features by his successor Walter C. Martin, this 1931-32 secondary school is one of the most impressive public structures in The Bronx.
The site of the April 21, 1966 “Sip-In” protesting and publicizing anti-gay discrimination in bars and other public places, the Julius’ Bar Building is New York City’s most significant site of pre-Stonewall LGBTQ+-rights activism.
A Renaissance Revival-style row house designed by Axel Hedman in 1908 that has served since 1991 as the headquarters of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the nation’s oldest and largest collection of lesbian-related
historical material.
Framing 222nd Street between 115th Road and 116th Avenue in southeastern Queens, the Cambria Heights – 222nd Street Historic District is an architectural highlight of its neighborhood, an unusually cohesive, distinctive, and intact collection of 46 houses built in the Storybook style in 1931.
Framing 227th Street between 116th Avenue and Linden Boulevard in southeastern Queens, the Cambria Heights – 227th Street Historic District is an architectural highlight of its neighborhood, an unusually cohesive, distinctive, and intact collection of 50 houses built in the Storybook style in 1931.
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated November 18, 2021, from the Executive Director
of the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the landmark designation of 200 Madison
Avenue First Floor Lobby Interior, 200 Madison Avenue (Block 865, Lot 14) by the Landmarks
Preservation Commission on Nov
Mayor Bill de Blasio today joined Parks Brooklyn Commissioner Martin Maher and Councilmember Brad Lander to announce a $10.9 million investment in the Old Stone House (OSH) to increase accessibility and fund preservation efforts at the historic site in the heart of Washington Park.
200 Madison Avenue First Floor Lobby Interior was designed by Warren & Wetmore and built in 1925-1926, the glittering neoclassical lobby of 200 Madison Avenue contains a richly
embellished through-block arcade and elevator hall.
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated July 1, 2021, from the Executive Director of the
Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the landmark designation of the Kimlau War
Memorial (Block 117, Lot 100), by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on June 22, 2021,
(Designation List No. 525/LP-2653),
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated June 25, 2021, from the Executive Director of the
LPC regarding the landmark designation of the New York Public Library, Harlem Branch (Block 1722, Lot 30), by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on June 15, 2021 (Designation List No. 524/LP-2652)
The Landmarks Preservation Commission report regarding the Dorrance Brooks Square Street Historic
District designation, designated by the LPC on June 15, 2021 (Designation List No. 524). The Dorrance Brooks Square Historic District consists of approximately 325 buildings etc
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated July 1, 2021, from the Executive Director of the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the landmark designation of the Aakawaxung Munahanung Archaeological Site, 298-300 Satterlee Street (Block 7871, Lot 1 in part) by the LPC (List No. 525/LP No. 2648)
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated May 27, 2021, from the Executive Director of
the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the modification of the landmark designation
of Holyrood Episcopal Church - Iglesia Santa Cruz (715 West 179th Street, Manhattan) (Block
2176, Lot 30) designated by the
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated May 27, 2021, from the Executive Director of the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the landmark designation of the Educational Building, 70 Fifth Avenue (Block 576, Lot 36), by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on May 18, 2021 (Designation List No
The report tells the history of the New York Public Library, Harlem Branch (McKim, Mead & White, 1907-09), a Carnegie Library including its role in the development of Black theater in the 1930s as the home of the Rose McClendon Players and Theatre Workshop.
The Dorrance Brooks Square Historic District is associated with notable African American figures of the Harlem Renaissance. It features a striking collection of residential and religious structures designed by prominent New York City architects and that form cohesive streetscapes.
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated February 11, 2021, from the Executive Director of the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the landmark designation of the Harriet and Thomas Truesdell House, 227 Duffield Street (Block 146, Lot 15) by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on
etc.
The Mayor's Press Office releases information about notable events and actions taken by the Mayor, as well as transcripts of all media conferences, radio shows, and ceremonies that the Mayor attends.
The Mayor's Press Office releases information about notable events and actions taken by the Mayor, as well as transcripts of all media conferences, radio shows, and ceremonies that the Mayor attends.
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated November 25, 2020, from the Executive Director of the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the East 25th Street Historic District designation, designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on November 17, 2020 (Designation List No. 521). etc
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated November 19, 2020, from the Executive Director of the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the landmark designation of the Angel Guardian Home, 6301 12th Avenue (Block 5739, Lot 1 in Part) by the Landmarks Preservation Commission of November 10, 2020 etc
The Mayor's Press Office releases information about notable events and actions taken by the Mayor, as well as transcripts of all media conferences, radio shows, and ceremonies that the Mayor attends.
The Mayor's Press Office releases information about notable events and actions taken by the Mayor, as well as transcripts of all media conferences, radio shows, and ceremonies that the Mayor attends.
In the matter of a communication dated September 29, 2020 from the Executive Director of the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the landmark designation of Public School 48 (now P75Q at P.S.48, The Robert E. Peary School) (Block 10144, Lot 42) by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on etc
The Mayor's Press Office releases information about notable events and actions taken by the Mayor, as well as transcripts of all media conferences, radio shows, and ceremonies that the Mayor attends.
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated July 2, 2020 from the Executive Director of the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the Manida Street Historic District, designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on June 23, 2020 (Designation List 517/LP-2644)
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated July 10, 2020, from the Executive Director of the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the amended site of the Alexander Hamilton House (Block 1957, Lot 140), by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on June 30, 2020 (Designation List No. 518/LP-0317A)
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated July 10, 2020, from the Executive Director of the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the modification of the landmark designation of Kingsland Homestead (143-35 37th Ave, Queens)(Block 5012, Lot 60) designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission
IN THE MATTER OF a communication dated July 10, 2020, from the Executive Director of the
Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the rescission of the Landmark Site of the Beth
Hamedrash Hagadol Synagogue, 60-64 Norfolk Street (Block 346, Lot 37), by the Landmarks
Preservation Commission on etc
In the matter of a communication dated December 19, 2019 from the Executive Director of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) regarding the rescission of the Landmark Site of Public School No. 31, 425 Grand Concourse (Block 2346, Lot 1) by the LPC on December 10, 2019 (Designation List no.516)
In the matter of a communication dated June 20, 2019 from the Executive Director of the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the landmark designation of the 830 Broadway Building by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on June 11, 2019 (Designation List No. 512/LP-2616).