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Announcements

Treyger Invites Residents To Testify In Favor Of Landmarking Coney Island Boardwalk

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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Gravesend, Rejoice! Lady Moody’s House Receives Landmark Status

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.

Announcements

Rejoice, Gravesend! Lady Moody’s House Receives Landmark Status

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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Portions Of Green-Wood Cemetery & St. Augustine Church Move Forward In Landmark Designation

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

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Lady Moody House Is Safe & Other LPC Vote Results

Source: Flickr/lisanne001The Lady Moody-Van Sicklen House is one step closer to landmark status! At an all-day public meeting Tuesday to address its backlog of 95 properties, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission [http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.shtml] (LPC) decided to keep the Moody House

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Pols Rally Around Effort To Landmark Riegelmann Boardwalk

Source: blhphotography via FlickrCity council members are pushing back against the effort to rip up parts of Coney Island’s Reigelmann Boardwalk and replace the wood planks with recycled materials and concrete. All but one of the council’s 50 active members have signed on to support a resolution introduced

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EXCLUSIVE: Pye Properties Confirms Purchase Of Landmarked Shore Theater

The Shore Theater at 1301 Surf Avenue. (Photo: Luca Vanzella [https://www.flickr.com/photos/vanz/3097815498/in/photolist-5HK7C3] / Flickr) Rumors that Coney Island’s landmarked Shore Theater was sold to a developer triggered a tide of excitement this week that the long-neglected property [/owner-coney-islands-shore-theater-snubs-proposals-reactivate-landmarked-site/#.VqPJh5MrKSM] would be restored to

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Supporters Turn Out For Lady Moody’s And Coney Island Pumping Station At LPC Hearing

The Lady Moody House. (Photo: Brooklyn Historical Society)Two local historical buildings — the Coney Island Pumping Station [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/?s=coney+island+pumping+station] and the Lady Moody House [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/?s=lady+moody] — received the greatest support at last week’s Landmark Preservation Committee hearing,

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Another Potential NYC Landmark On The Chopping Block: Coney Island’s Pumping Station

Source: Wikimedia Commons/ Jim.hendersonThe city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) had planned to remove 98 sites from its list of potential landmarks [/nearly-100-nyc-sites-may-removed-landmark-consideration-including-lady-moodys-house-gravesend/] this week – an effort to clear a backlog of applications. On the list was the historic Lady Moody’s House in Gravesend [/lady-moodys-house-must-saved/], which has been

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Construction Underway At Long-Empty Albemarle Road House

The house at 1216 Albemarle Road (between Westminster and Argyle), which has been boarded up and empty for years, is finally showing signs of life again. The Landmarks Preservation Commission issued a Certificate of Appropriateness permitting the proposed work on August 30, following a hearing in July, and workers were

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It’s Official: Park Slope Historic District is Now the Biggest in the City

City Council just voted to approve an expansion of the Park Slope Historic District, making it the largest historic district in the city. In April, the plan got the approval of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, but with today’s vote, it’s official: no neighborhood’s got as much history