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Coney Island Boardwalk (Photo by B.Y. Lei)City Council unanimously adopted a resolution introduced by Councilman Mark Treyger and Councilman Chaim Deutsch, as well as 48 other members of the Council and Public Advocate Letitia James, calling on the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to designate the Coney Island Riegelmann
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Blue tarps still dangle from the Lundy’s Building on Emmons Avenue. (Photo: Ed Cheney / Sheepshead Bites)The historic Lundy’s Building on Emmons Avenue continues to deteriorate, despite promises from the owner to patch up the property. We reported in March [/lundys-building-real-fixer-upper/] the landmarked building, constructed in the 1930s,
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The Shore Theater at the corner of Stillwell and Surf avenues in Coney Island. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)The developer who purchased the landmarked Shore Theater in Coney Island earlier this year is considering converting the building into a hotel with a rooftop pool, according to sketches sent to
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Proposal for the Berkeley Carroll School rooftop expansion at 181 Lincoln Place. (Image via YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/06/berkeley-carroll-school-to-get-addition-181-lincoln-place-park-slope.html] )The Berkeley Carroll School [https://www.berkeleycarroll.org/] wants to raise the roof, and they now have approval to do so. Last week, the Landmarks Preservation Commission
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Source: blhphotography via FlickrCity Councilman Mark Treyger is urging New Yorkers, and especially southern Brooklyn residents, to turn out at a City Council hearing next week and show their support for his resolution to landmark Coney Island’s Riegelmann Boardwalk. Treyger has long advocated [/councilman-treyger-moves-make-coney-island-boardwalk-city-landmark/] for the Landmarks Preservation Commission
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Rendering by SHoP Architects.It’s a done deal: the historic and landmarked Dime Savings Bank will be partially demolished in order to facilitate the construction of Brooklyn’s tallest tower, in Downtown Brooklyn. The city Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted to approve the changes — with the exception of the
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Green-Wood Chapel. (Photo via Beyond My Ken [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/2015_Green-Wood_Chapel_1.jpg] .The Landmarks Preservation Commission [http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.shtml] voted in favor of landmark status for a series of extremely significant properties and neighborhoods across
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Green-Wood Chapel. (Photo via Beyond My Ken [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/2015_Green-Wood_Chapel_1.jpg] )The Landmarks Preservation Commission [http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.shtml] voted in favor of landmark status for a series of extremely significant properties and neighborhoods throughout
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After more than a half century of waiting, Gravesend’s historic Lady Moody-Van Sicklen House has finally achieved landmark status. The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) granted the designation to the 18th-Century Dutch-American farmhouse, which once belonged to Gravesend founder Lady Deborah Moody, during a public meeting on Tuesday.
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Ragged blue tarp hanging from the Lundy’s building. (Photo: Ed Cheney)The historic Lundy’s Building [/?s=lundy%27s], located along the waterfront at 1901 Emmons Avenue, is in many ways the face of Sheepshead Bay. First constructed in the 1930s to house the legendary Lundy’s Restaurant, the
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Flatbush District #1 School Building in 1931. (Photo: Brooklyn Public Library)A landmarked Church Avenue school building — which was constructed when Flatbush was still an independent village — is no more. The Flatbush District #1 School Building, a designated New York City landmark [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/cpc/
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Photo by Beyond My Ken [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Augustine's_Roman_Catholic_Church_122_Sixth_Avenue_Park_Slope_from_south.jpg] St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church [http://www.staugustineparkslope.org/] (116 6th Avenue at Sterling Place) and portions of Green-Wood Cemetery are one step closer