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“Crumbling NYC church sues to evict nonprofit, seeks $33.5M sale” The battle over the landmarked, but crumbling, West-Park Presbyterian Church at Amsterdam Ave. and West 86th St. has moved onto a second front: Manhattan Supreme Court. The tiny congregation wants to sell the 140-year-old building to developer Alchemy for $33.5 million. As Realty Check previously…
“Preservationists have a vested interest in UWS church fight” Preservation and landmarking disputes sometimes make for hard choices. Whether to raze crumbling West-Park Presbyterian Church at Amsterdam Avenue and West 86th Street might not be the easiest call at first glance. The pretty, 140-year old, Romanesque-Revival structure is a rare grace note amidst mostly drab surroundings. But the…
“#Old McGraw-Hill building free to start new chapter” Finally free from a pesky preservationists’ lawsuit, the landmarked former McGraw-Hill Building at 330 W. 42nd St. is stepping into a new life as a modern office tower attuned to 21st century needs. A full-scale marketing campaign begins this week for the vacant 700,000-square-foot-tower that was once…
“#Landmarks panel mustn’t kill historic district’s lifeline” “Without the museum, there is no historic district,” City Councilwoman Margaret Chin rightly told the Landmarks Preservation Commission in January in support of the plan to build at 250 Water Street in the South Street Seaport Historic District. The Howard Hughes Corp. would create a substantial endowment to…
“#NYC neighborhood fights to save Underground Railroad site” Clad in fake stoneface and mostly shorn of its old clapboard and ornament, the dingy, two story house at Riverside Drive and 159th Street isn’t much to look at. But a group of neighbors, preservationists, historians and local politicians believe it was once a stop on New…