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Celebrate with us! It's high time to honor the many neighborhood advocates citywide who work tirelessly to preserve, protect and improve their communities. Come to the Historic District Council's...
20th Annual Preservation Party
and
Grassroots Preservation Awards
(details below)
This year, the awards are especially close to our West Side heart. Among the grassroots efforts being honored is The Coalition to Save West-Park Presbyterian Church*!
Two decades of perseverance paid off on May 12, 2010, when the City Council voted to affirm the Individual Landmark designation of West-Park. Now the real work of preserving this extraordinary building can begin... Click here to learn more.
The Coalition to Save West-Park succeeded because of key leadership from Council
Member Gale Brewer, Manhattan Community Board 7, Friends of West Park,
Historic Districts Council, LANDMARK WEST!, and the New York Landmarks
Conservancy.
Honors will be awarded this Thursday, May 20th, at 6:00PM at St. Mark's Church-in-the Bowery Garden and Parish Hall.
To purchase tickets or for more information, contact the Historic Districts Council at (212) 614-9107 or by emailing hdc@hdc.org.
West-Park Presbyterian Church is a landmark at last thanks to the persistent advocacy of hundreds of individuals in the Upper West Side community and all five boroughs (every New York neighborhood has its own "West-Park" - buildings in desperate need of protection and revitalization).
We also want to recognize and thank:
Hon. Christine Quinn, Hon. Leroy Comrie, Hon. Brad Lander and all 51 members of the New York City Council
Hon. Robert B. Tierney and members of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
Hon. Amanda M. Burden and members of the New York City Planning Commission|
Hon. Eric Schneiderman
Hon. Linda Rosenthal
Hon. Bill Perkins
Hon. Bill de Blasio
Hon. Scott Stringer
Former Council Member Tony Avella
Michael Henry Adams
Daniel Allen
Hunter Armstrong
Joyce Baumgarten
Barry Bergdoll
Leo Blackman
Françoise Bollack
Shawn Brennan
Herbert Broderick
Mosette Broderick
Robert Cane
Tammi Colichio
Page Cowley
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
Charles DiSanto
Andrew S. Dolkart
Cynthia Doty
David Dunlop
Franny Eberhart
Elizabeth Evans
Polly Feingold
Victor Gonzales
Justin Greenawalt
Katherine Husband
Andrew Kaplan
Dr. Kenneth Kelner
Harry Kendall
Peter Krokendelas
Sarah Bradford Landau
Marie Lerch
James Loriega
Joan Lufrano
Tom Lynch
Joyce Mann
Elizabeth Manus
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The Rev. Darrell Berger
The Rev. Stephen Garmey
The Rev. Dr. Thomas Pike
The Rev. Joseph M. Zorawick
Coalition for a Livable West Side
Greenwich Village Society
for Historic Preservation
Metropolitan Chapter of
the Victorian Society in America
Municipal Art Society
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Preservation League of New York State
Women's City Club
Walter Melvin
Barbara Michaels
Michele de Milly
Alyssa Nordhauser
Gene A. Norman
Virginia Parkhouse
Lee Harris Pomeroy
Lauren Radin
Hope Reiner
Fred Seidler
Sarah Sher
Young Joo Shin
Joshua Sills
Ernest von Simson
Eve Sinaiko
Olga Statz
Robert A.M. Stern
Jacob Tilove
Rudy Van Daele
William Vogel
Caitlin Wilcox
Jared Witt
Anthony C. Wood
Calla Wright
Howard Zar
...plus all of the friends - too many to name - who wrote/called/petitioned/etc. We did it!
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*West-Park Presbyterian Church's original chapel was designed by Leopold Eidlitz and built in 1884. In 1890, a church addition was designed and built by Henry F. Kilburn. West-Park is located at 165 West 86th Street (at Amsterdam Avenue). For more historical background on the West Side's latest Individual Landmark, click here to read the Landmarks Preservation Commission Designation Report.
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