Tag Archives | Preserving New York

Landmark Status Sought for Two Brooklyn Heights Buildings

By on November 29, 2015 11:16 pm in Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Development, History, Landmark Preservation, Real Estate

Last Monday I attended the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the designation of Brooklyn Heights as New York City’s first landmarked historic district, held at the Brooklyn Historical Society and co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Heights Association and by the New York Preservation Archive Project (“NYPAP”). The evening’s program (read more about the proceedings in the Eagle) […]

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New Video: The Story of New York’s First Historic District

By on April 5, 2010 12:05 am in Brooklyn Heights, History

The video “Brooklyn Is My Neighborhood/ The Story of New York’s First Historic District” was produced by Martin L Schneider and Karl Junkersfeld to serve as a prelude to Schneider’s 15,000-word article “Battling for Brooklyn Heights/ 1958-1965″. The article was originally published in serial form in the Brooklyn Heights Press in 1993. It tells the […]

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