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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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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
St. Augustine Church
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] Time is running out. Recently we reported [/blog/history/landmarks-preservation-commission-releases-plan-for-reviewing-backlog] that the Landmarks Preservation Commission [http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.
St. Augustine Church
Photo by Beyond My KenThe Landmarks Preservation Commission [http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.shtml] has finally released a plan to deal with the backlog of properties, after the Commission withdrew their plan [/blog/history/panel-nixes-plan-to-cut-list-of-potential-city-landmarks] to remove 98 properties awaiting landmark status from their list — including
St. Augustine Church
Photo by Beyond My Ken The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has withdrawn its controversial plan to remove 98 properties awaiting landmark status from their list, including St. Augustine’s Church on 6th Avenue [/blog/history/green-wood-cemetery-st-augustines-on-list-of-nearly-100-nyc-sites-that-may-be-removed-from-landmark-consideration] , Green-Wood Cemetery [http://www.green-wood.com/] and Lady Moody’s House in Gravesend