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    Parks Department Celebrates Holiday Season With Light Displays Across City

    Department of Parks & Recreation  •  Holiday Celebrations  •  Citywide

    The map features locations of the Parks Department holiday light displays across the City. Image Credit: NYC Parks Dept.

    The light displays offer local options for those who can’t or choose not to see typically more crowded options like the Rockefeller Center tree. On December 11, 2020, the Parks Department announced that this holiday season, New Yorkers can enjoy local light displays at Parks administrative buildings and parks around the city. This season, Parks will host over 80 lighting displays across the City.  (more…)

    Tags : holiday lights, Parks Department
    Date: 12/17/2020
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    Parks’ Rules on Vending Upheld

    CityLaw  •  Vending  •  Citywide

    Art vendor in Manhattan. Image Credit: CityLaw

    Parks’ rules limited where vendors of expressive material could sell their wares in City parks. The Parks Department adopted “Expressive Matter Vending Rules” which restricted the sale of “materials or objects with expressive content, such as newspapers, books, or writings, or visual art such as paintings, prints, photography, or sculpture.” The new rules limited the sale of expressive materials to 100 specifically designated spots in Union Square Park, Battery Park, High Line Park, and Central Park. The spots would be available on a first-come, first-serve basis with only one vendor per spot. (more…)

    Tags : CityLaw, Parks Department, vendor rules
    Date: 02/15/2020
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    Landmarks Designates Sunset Park Historic Districts

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation  •  Sunset Park, Brooklyn

    Rowhouses along 50th Street in Sunset Park 50th Street Historic District. Image Credit: LPC.

    The four historic districts contain the most cohesive intact concentrations of high-quality architecture in Sunset Park, representing its primary periods of development. On June 18, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to designate four areas of Sunset Park, Brooklyn as historic districts: Sunset Park North, Sunset Park South, Central Sunset Park, and Sunset Park 50th Street. Sunset Park North, South, and Central Sunset Park Historic Districts are areas where coherent historic streetscapes continue across several blocks and together create a strong sense of place. The Sunset Park 50thStreet historic district contains two complete rows of browstones designed by Henry Spicer and Thomas Bennet and is the most consistent block in Sunset Park. The district boundaries were determined following extensive analysis of over 4,000 buildings between 40th and 60th Streets and 4th and 7th Avenues. Landmarks calendared the districts on January 22, 2019, and held a public hearing on May 7, 2019. (more…)

    Tags : Brooklyn Historic Districts, Central Sunset Park HD, Landmark Designation, Sunset Park 50th Street HD, Sunset Park Historic Districts, Sunset Park North HD, Sunset Park South HD
    Date: 06/25/2019
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    Landmarks Calendars Four Sunset Park Historic Districts

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Calendaring  •  Sunset Park, Brooklyn

    Map of Sunset Park with the four proposed historic districts outlined in red. Image Credit: LPC.

    Landmarks research staff spent several years researching the area, surveying and documenting over 4,000 buildings. On January 22, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously voted to add to its calendar four areas of Sunset Park, Brooklyn for historic district designation. The proposals were presented to the Commission following years of extensive survey and analysis by the Landmarks research staff after a request for evaluation of the area from Sunset Park’s Landmarks Committee in 2014. The Sunset Park Landmarks Committee was established in 2012 by area residents and homeowners who were concerned with redevelopment changing the largely rowhouse-character of the area. To read CityLand coverage on the Committee’s efforts in building community support for designation in its early stages, click here. (more…)

    Tags : Central Sunset Park HD, Sunset Park 50th Street HD, Sunset Park Historic District, Sunset Park Historic District Calendaring, Sunset Park Landmarks Committee, Sunset Park North HD, Sunset Park South HD
    Date: 02/21/2019
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    Support Voiced for Designation of Central Harlem District

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Hearing  •  Harlem, Manhattan

    Central Harlem West 130-132nd Historic District. Image credit: LPC.

    164-building potential district characterized by 19th-century residential architecture, and cultural and political history.            Landmarks held a public hearing on the potential designation of the Central Harlem West 130-132nd Historic District at its meeting on April 17, 2018. The district is composed of the block interiors on 130th, 131st, and 132nd Streets between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. The district includes approximately 164 buildings, chiefly built during a brief period of development in the final decades of the 19th century. The speculative rowhouses were constructed in architectural styles appealing to the middle class of the period, primarily Neo Grec, interspersed Queen Anne, Renaissance Revival, and Romanesque Revival. Landmarks Executive Director Sarah Carroll stated that the proposed designation had come about through Landmarks’ study of properties associated with African-American history and the civil rights movement. (more…)

    Tags : Central Harlem, designation, Friendship Baptist Church, Friendship House, Landmarks, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NAACP, New Amsterdam Musical Association, rowhouses
    Date: 05/07/2018
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