LW! e-newsletter
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January 12, 2010
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A Landmark at Last!
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More than twenty years of community advocacy, a public hearing last July, and then...VICTORY! By unanimous vote of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), West-Park Presbyterian Churchis finally an official Landmark.
This day would never have come without the determination and steadfast support of preservationists - like YOU! - and key leadership from people like those listed below. Your continued attention and
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encouragement are important since the designation will go before both the City
Planning Commission and the City Council in
coming months. So, give yourself a hearty clap on the back and take a few moments to send enthusiastic emails of congratulations (contact info below). The
LPC's decision marks a new beginning for West-Park, a time for renewed
hope and opportunity to make this building lively once more. Long live West-Park!
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LANDMARK WEST! thanks: Friends who wrote letters, signed petitions and came to public meetings and
hearings, including (but not limited to!) Daniel J. Allen, architect; (former) City Council
Member Tony Avella; Barry Bergdoll, Chief Curator of Architecture
and Design, The Museum of Modern Art; The Rev. Darrell Berger, First
Unitarian Universalist Church; Francoise Bollack, architect; Herbert Broderick, III, Associate Professor of Art, Lehman College;
Mosette Broderick, Director, Urban Design and Architecture Studies,
NYU; Lauren Jacobi, architectural historian; Robert Cane, architect;
Page Cowley, architect; Former City Council Member and current Public Advocate Bill de Blasio;
Andrew Scott Dolkart, James Marston Fitch Associate Professor of
Historic Preservation, Columbia University;
Charles DiSanto, architect; The Rev. Stephen Garmey; Historic
Districts Council; Sarah Bradford Landau, former LPC Commissioner and
Professor of Art History, NYU; Katherine R. McKee, conservator; Walter
B. Melvin, architect; The Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society
in America; The Very Reverend James Parks Morton, The Interfaith Center
of New York; Municipal Art Society; New York Landmarks Conservancy;
Susan Nial, Esq.; Gene A. Norman, former Landmarks Preservation
Commission Chair; The Rev. Dr. Thomas Pike, former NYC Landmarks
Commissioner; Lee Harris Pomeroy, architect; Preservation League of New York State; Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal; Fred Seidler, The Fred Seidler
Group; Olga Statz, JD, LLM; Robert A.M. Stern, architect; Manhattan
Borough President Scott Stringer; The Rev. Joseph M. Zorawick, former
Rector of Christ & St. Stephen's Church (copies of their letters
and more are available at www.landmarkwest.org/westpark.htm).
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Recognize
the architectural detail in the LW! email header? The bounding arches
can be found high atop the bell tower of West-Park Presbyterian
Church. Header image photo credit: John Sills 2009. |
Save the Date
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National Day of Service
No one knows better than LANDMARK WEST! the importance of volunteerism in our communities. We thrive because of the selfless giving of time, the volunteering donation of professional expertise and the spirited donation of goods.
JOIN US on the National Day of Service 2010 as we provide opportunities for volunteers. Have a spare hour? Available for the afternoon? That's all it takes to make a tremendous impact on the place we call home: the Upper West Side.
To find out more ... CALL US: (212) 496-8110 EMAIL US:landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org
You don't have to wait for the National Day of Service to lend a hand. Visit our LW! Volunteer webpage to learn how you can make a difference all year long.
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5 DAYS LEFT: Lincoln Center Exhibition
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 Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years, the first exhibition to focus exclusively on
the evolution and influence of America's first performing arts center, features
an extensive collection of historic and contemporary objects including
photographs, ephemera, correspondence, costumes, set pieces, props, and video
recordings. Curated by Thomas Mellins,
Upper West Sider and co-author of the book New York 1960, the free exhibition is presented at the Donald and
Mary Oenslager Gallery of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center (accessible from
the Plaza level of Lincoln Center, just north of the Metropolitan
Opera) in collaboration with Lincoln Center, and closes on January 16, 2010. (Click here too read the New York Times review and see a slide show of
images from the show.)
From its inception in the mid-1950s, Lincoln Center has been a powerful
symbol of New York's core substance and style. Its scale, its architecture and
urbanism, its concentration of talent culled from the realms of government,
philanthropy, academia, architecture, art, and a broad spectrum of the
performing arts, all powerfully embody main currents that run throughout New
York City's history and collective character. Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50
Years shows the complex and symbiotic relationship between Lincoln Center
and New York City over the course of a half century and the key role Lincoln
Center has played in New York's development as an international cultural
capital.
Pictured above:Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein before the opening of Philharmonic Hall, now Avery Fisher Hall. Photo Courtesy of the New York Philharmonic
Text adapted from the New York Public Library.
In 2000, the Lincoln Center campus was determined eligible for the State and
National Registers of Historic Places, in recognition of its outstanding
architectural, historical and cultural significance. LANDMARK WEST! submitted
the nomination report.
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Certify Your Love of Landmarks!
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Mechanics' Institute Historic Preservation Certificate Program
"Like a sample box of Godiva Chocolates, the Historic Preservation certificate program, available through the venerable Mechanics' Institute, is an exciting opportunity to survey and savor the many facets of Historic Preservation that will propel our culture and lifestyles forward." ~~ HP Program graduate
The Mechanics' Institute is now accepting new applicants
for its Historic Preservation program. The tuition-free certificate
program, launched in 2006, is comprised of eight courses that cover a
wide range of preservation topics. Classes meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, and 7:00pm to 9:00pm for thirteen (13) weeks. The spring semester begins January 26.
For more information, click on the link above or visit www.mechanicsinstitute.org.
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