Report on Preservation Movement
Does New York's Past Have a Future? A Report on the Preservation Movement's History; Some Prescriptions for its Next Century
It has been over four decades since Penn Station was trashed and turned into Jersey landfill and the Landmarks Preservation Commission was created in its wake. We are now in the midst of an enormous development juggernaut, and some think that historic preservation might wind up as road kill. Some of the movement's leading activists and analysts discussed the past, present, and future of preservation in New York City. Panelists included: Anthony C. Wood, New York Preservation Archive Project; author Tony M. Tung; novelist Tom Wolfe; William Higgins, Principal, Higgins Quasebarth & Partners, LLC; and Julia Vitullo-Martin, Director, Center for Rethinking Development, Manhattan Institute. Co-Sposored with the Gotham Center for New York History