City Council member Bill Perkins has taken the 2 Columbus Circle fray to the legislative chamber by introducing a bill that would require the Landmarks Preservation Commission to hold public hearings on alterations to any building the City Council thinks it should hold hearings about. All the council needs to do is get a majority Read More
According to a source who was there, Bank of America’s new plan for the renovation of 670 Sixth Avenue at 21st Street was greeted with enthusiasm this past Tuesday at the Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing.
Problem was, the L.P.C. didn’t have a quorum: no quorum, no vote. In June, the BoA got approval from Community Read More
Sherida E. Paulson, former chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (2001-03), wrote an Op Ed in July 30′s New York Times on the fate of 2 Columbus Circle, the vaguely Moorish-looking monolith designed by Edward Durrell Stone which is in danger of having its facade ripped off and replaced by a modernistic response to the Read More
(Left: The Andrews Coffee shop, as it is now. Right: Apple’s rendering of its plan to replace the building with its newest New York store.)
With the vaguely retro-chic Andrews Coffee Shop at Fifth Avenue between 18th and 19th Streets now shuttered, Apple Computers’ plan to build a store on the site is running into Read More
Landmark West (which is hereby on notice that we’re not using the exclamation point that is a part of their name! the people have spoken!) is holding a “people’s hearing” this Thursday, starting at 1 p.m. at the General Society for Mechanics and Tradesmen Library (20 West 44th Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues). Read More
