As New York City Neighborhoods Change, How Are Landmarks Protected?
Margaret Newman, Executive Director of The Municipal Art Society, and Meenakshi Srinivasan, Chair of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, discuss the process, and politics, of designating buildings as New York City Landmarks. Last week, the Landmark Preservation Commission decided not to "de-calendar" close to 100 New York City historic sites. Calendaring is the first step in designating a protected landmark.
Which buildings do you think deserve to be landmarked? Tell us in the comments below.
People are very concerned about losing NYC's history; architecturally and also culturally. -Margaret Newman on @LeonardLopate
— MASNYC (@MASNYC) December 8, 2014
#Landmarks add to the value of neighborhoods and preserve our history - @MASNYC on @LeonardLopate pic.twitter.com/aw3OFn781o
— New York Filmmaker (@filmsbyAmy) December 8, 2014
Sites our listeners would like to see landmarked:
@LeonardLopate @nyclandmarks @MASNYC Please landmark the street grid of Lower Manhattan. Thanks!
— Robert Sullivan (@RESullivanJr) December 8, 2014
Modern and Contemporary preservation hindsight: American Folk Art Museum on 53rd street @LeonardLopate #folkmoma #alreadydemolished
— Philip Ryan (@studiomodh) December 8, 2014
@LeonardLopate let's landmark #ConeyIsland boardwalk & prevent its further corporatization! @MarkTreyger718 http://t.co/TPnX4IgMcj
— New York Filmmaker (@filmsbyAmy) December 8, 2014
