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Landmarks Preservation Commission

Nov
10
Angel Guardian Home: Dyker Heights Gets Its First Historic Landmark

Angel Guardian Home: Dyker Heights Gets Its First Historic Landmark

Angel Guardian Home. (Photo via Angel Guardian Home Facebook)DYKER HEIGHTS – The Angel Guardian Home, a century-old former orphanage,  has
2 min read
Jan
08
Historic Gage & Tollner Returns to Downtown Brooklyn After 16 Years

Historic Gage & Tollner Returns to Downtown Brooklyn After 16 Years

A previous owner, Ed Dewey, lighting a gas chandelier. Courtesy of Gage & Tollner.Gage & Tollner [https://gageandtollner.com]
5 min read
Oct
11
Community Board 6 Supports Redevelopment Of Old American Can Factory

Community Board 6 Supports Redevelopment Of Old American Can Factory

GOWANUS – Community Board 6 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/index.page] voted in favor of plans to redevelop The
5 min read
Sep
30
11th Hour Plea To Stop Demo Of ‘Abolitionist Place’ House

11th Hour Plea To Stop Demo Of ‘Abolitionist Place’ House

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – It’s a three-story brick building, its windows broken, roof sagging, and façade weather-beaten. But a bold group
5 min read
Jun
25
LPC Calendars 5 Gowanus Sites For Landmark Consideration

LPC Calendars 5 Gowanus Sites For Landmark Consideration

GOWANUS – The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/index.page] (LPC) voted Tuesday morning to calendar
3 min read
Feb
26
Popular Fruit Stand May Be Demolished For New 4-Story Building

Popular Fruit Stand May Be Demolished For New 4-Story Building

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – A popular produce market housed in a one-story building at 181 Atlantic Avenue may soon be demolished to
1 min read
Aug
09
Local Pols To Celebrate Landmarking Of Coney Island Boardwalk

Local Pols To Celebrate Landmarking Of Coney Island Boardwalk

CONEY ISLAND – Join NYC Council Members Mark Treyger and Chaim Deutsch, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Brooklyn Borough President Eric
2 min read
Jun
28
Appeal Made to Landmark 99-Year Old Cortelyou Road Church

Appeal Made to Landmark 99-Year Old Cortelyou Road Church

1921 Cortelyou Road. (Photo by Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)FLATBUSH – A community group is filing an appeal with the city in
2 min read
Jun
26
LPC Approves Boerum Hill Historic District Extension

LPC Approves Boerum Hill Historic District Extension

BOERUM HILL – The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/about/pr2018/062618.page] (LPC) approved the
3 min read
Jun
13
New Design Revealed for Fort Greene Townhouse Near BAM and Atlantic-Barclays

New Design Revealed for Fort Greene Townhouse Near BAM and Atlantic-Barclays

The new render for the three-story townhouse at 147 Felix Street in Fort Greene (Via JRA Design Group)FORT GREENE
2 min read