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Roberta Brandes Gratz, award-winning journalist and urban critic, lecturer and author of “The Living City: Thinking Small in a Big Way,” and “Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown.” She is an international lecturer on urban development issues and former award-winning reporter for the New York Post. Most recently, she wrote a report for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, “A Frog, A Wooden House, A Stream and A Trail: Ten Years of Community Revitalization in Central Europe.” Gratz was appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in February 2003. Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Tikkun, Planning Magazine, New York Newsday, the Daily News, Planning Commissioners Journal and others. And her writing had been translated into Japanese, Russian, Czech, German and Polish. She travels frequently all over the U.S., Central Europe and Great Britain to lecture and consult on urban revitalization issues. Recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Surdna Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Fannie Mae Foundation, and writing awards from the American Institute of Architects, American Planning Assn, Municipal Art Society, the New York Press Club, the City Club of New York and others. Gratz serves as Trustee and head of Public Policy of the New York State Preservation League; Vice-President of the Salzburg Conference on Urban Planning and Development; founder and President Emeritus of the Eldridge Street Project, the effort to restore the historic Eldridge Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side and to establish a Jewish Heritage Center on the site; a founder and current board member of the Writers Room, the first urban writers' colony in the country. Gratz was a member of the New York Governor’s and Mayor’s Task Force on Planning Manhattan’s West Side Highway and Waterfront; currently and a Trustee of the Village of Ocean Beach. She founded the Fire Island Historical Society. She is a native and resident of New York City. Subject Headings Used in Roberta Gratz Database (rev. 11-11-03) 1009 Fifth Avenue House (New York, N.Y.) 11 East 70th Street House (New York, N.Y.) 17 West 16th Street House (New York, N.Y.) 197-a Plan 364 Van Duzer Street House (New York, N.Y.) 390 Van Duzer Street House (New York, N.Y.) 52nd Police Precinct Station House (Bronx, New York, N.Y.) 85 Leonard Street Building (New York, N.Y.) A Jacob Adriance Farmhouse (New York, N.Y.) African American neighborhoods African Americans - History African Burial Ground (New York, N.Y.) African Burial Ground and the Commons Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Aid, Rita AIG Building (New York, N.Y.) Alexander's (Firm) All Angels' Church (New York, N.Y.) Benjamin P. Allen House (New York, N.Y.) American Museum of Natural History American Radiator Building (New York, N.Y.) Amusement rides - New York (State) - New York Ansonia Hotel (New York, N.Y.) Apartment houses - New York (State) - New York Apartments - New York (State) - New York Architectural criticism Architectural design Art Deco (Architecture) - New York (State) - New York Automobiles Automobiles - Fuel consumption Avedisian, Armen B Baltimore (Md.) Banana Kelly (New York, N.Y.) Barwick, Kent Basketball arenas Battery Park (New York, N.Y.) Battery Park City (New York, N.Y.) Battery Park City Authority Bayard-Condict Building (New York, N.Y.) Beame, Abraham D. (Abraham David), 1906-2001 Bijou Theater (New York, N.Y.) Binger, Bronson James Blackwell House (New York, N.Y.) Boerum Hill Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Bogardus Building (New York, N.Y.) Bogardus, James, 1800-1874 Books - Reviews Bookstores - New York (State) - New York Boomis, Christopher Borough of Manhattan Community College (New York, N.Y.) Boys' High School (New York, N.Y.) Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981 Britton Cottage (New York, N.Y.) Bronx (New York, N.Y.) Bronx (New York, N.Y.) - Buildings, structures, etc. Bronx Post Office (New York, N.Y.) Bronx River Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Buildings, structures, etc. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Brooklyn Fire Headquarters (New York, N.Y.) Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) - Buildings, structures, etc. Brooklyn Museum of Art Brotherhood Synagogue (New York, N.Y.) Brownstone Bryant Park (New York, N.Y.) Buford, Richard H. Burden, Carter James A. and Florence Sloane Burden House (New York, N.Y.) Burgee, John, 1933 - Burlington (Vt.) C Calhoun School Anthony Campagna Estate (New York, N.Y.) Car pools Carnegie Hill Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Andrew and Louise Carnegie House (New York, N.Y.) Carroll Gardens Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Casinos Cast-iron fronts (Architecture) - New York (State) - New York Cavaglieri, Giorgio, 1911- Center for Public Architecture Central business districts Central business districts - Michigan - Detroit Central business districts - New Jersey - Newark Central business districts - New York (State) - Binghamton Central business districts - New York (State) - Schenectady Central business districts - Ohio - Columbus Central business districts - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh Central business districts - United States Central Park (New York, N.Y.) Central Park West-76th Street Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Central Park West-West 73rd-74th Street Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Central Presbyterian Church (New York, N.Y.) Central Savings Bank (New York, N.Y.) Chapel of the Good Shepherd (New York, N.Y.) Charlotte Street (New York, N.Y.) Choban, Irving Christmas decorations Christmas show windows Churches - New York (State) - New York Cities and towns Cities and towns - Cuba Cities Service Company City and town life City Hall (New York, N.Y.) City Hospital (New York, N.Y.) City planning Cloisters (Museum) Columbus Circle (New York, N.Y.) Committee to Preserve Flatbush Town Hall Community Board 7 (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.) Congel, Robert J. Congregation Shearith Israel (New York, N.Y.) Consolidated Edison Company of New York, inc. Convent of the Sacred Heart (New York, N.Y.) Cooper, Alex Courthouses - New York (State) - New York Crabb, Juanita Crime - New York (State) - New York Cuite, Thomas J. Czech Republic D Davidson, Joan Kaplan Davies, J. Clarence Davis, Brody & Associates Decoration and ornament, Architectural Department stores - New York (State) - New York DeRienzo, Harry Deskey, Donald, 1894-1989 Dorilton Apartments (New York, N.Y.) Drake, Erin Dry Dock # 1 (New York Naval Shipyard) Dwellings - Energy consumption Dwellings - Maintenance and repair E East Harlem Triangle Urban Renewal Area (New York, N.Y.) East River Savings Bank (New York, N.Y.) Economic development Economics Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) Ellis Island Immigration Museum Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) Emory Roth & Sons Empire Stores (New York, N.Y.) F Faneuil Hall Marketplace (Boston, Mass.) Farkas, Alexander Farmers' markets Farrell, Herman D. Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.) Fire Engine Company 31 (New York, N.Y.) First Church of Christ, Scientist (New York, N.Y.) First Houses (New York, N.Y.) Fitch, James Marston Flatbush Town Hall (New York, N.Y.) Flushing Town Hall (Flushing, New York, N.Y.) Forest Hills (New York, N.Y.) Fort Tompkins (New York, N.Y.) Fort Totten (New York, N.Y.) Forty-second Street (New York, N.Y.) Andrew Freedman Home (New York, N.Y.) Freeman, Doris Frick Collection Friends Meeting House and Seminary (New York, N.Y.) Friends of Cast Iron Architecture Fulton Ferry Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Fulton Ferry Park (New York, N.Y.) G Gage & Tollner Restaurant (New York, N.Y.) Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. and N.Y.) Gayle, Margot Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 Gilbert, Frank Gladstone, Mike Goldberg, Arthur Goldstone, Harmon H. (Harmon Hendricks), 1911-2001 Good Shepherd Faith Church (New York, N.Y.) Government auctions Grace Church (New York, N.Y.) Grace Church Houses Gracie Mansion (New York, N.Y.) Gramercy Park Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Grand Army Plaza Scenic Landmark (New York, N.Y.) Grand Central Terminal (New York, N.Y.) Grant's Tomb National Monument (New York, N.Y.) Gratz, Roberta Brandes Gratz, Roberta Brandes Gravesend Cemetery (New York, N.Y.) Greenfield, Edward J. Greenways Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) Greenwich Village Planning Board Griffin, Percy H Hamilton Heights Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Alexander Hamilton United States Custom House (New York, N.Y.) Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Harlem Heights Neighborhood Association Harlem River Houses (New York, N.Y.) Cyril and Barbara Rutherford Hatch House (New York, N.Y.) Haynes, Evelyn Helen Hayes Theater (New York, N.Y.) Henry, Janet High occupancy vehicle lanes Historic buildings - Conservation and restoration Historic buildings - New York (State) - New York Historic buildings - Remodeling for other uses Historic buildings - Remodeling for other uses - New York (State) - New York Historic preservation Historic preservation - Cuba - Havana Historic preservation - Czech Republic Historic preservation - Indiana - Indianapolis Historic preservation - Law and legislation - New York (State) - New York Historic preservation - Law and legislation - New York
(State) - New York Historic preservation - New York (State) Historic preservation - New York (State) - New York Historic preservation - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh Hotels - New York (State) - New York Housing Housing - Indiana - Indianapolis Housing - New York (State) Housing - New York (State) - New York Housing - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh Housing policy Hubbard, William Hunterfly Road Houses (New York, N.Y.) Hunters Point (New York, N.Y.) I Iacocca, Lee A. Indianapolis (Ind.) J Jacobs, Jane, 1916- Jacobs, Robert Allan Jamaica Savings Bank (New York, N.Y.) Oliver Gould and Mary Brewster Jennings House (New York, N.Y.) Joint Emergency Committee to Save the Grace Church
Houses K Kahn, Ely Jacques Otto and Addie Kahn House (New York, N.Y.) Kalikow, Peter Karp, Ivan Kelly Street (New York, N.Y.) Kingsbridge Armory (New York, N.Y.) Koch, Ed, 1924- Kornegay, Alice Krinsky, Carol Herselle Krupsak, Mary Anne L Ladies' Mile (New York, N.Y.) Lambs (New York, N.Y.) Lehman, Orin Leone, Sebastian William Lescaze House and Office (New York, N.Y.) Levenson, Conrad Lee Levitt, Mimi Libeskind, Daniel Lighthouse (New York, N.Y.) Lincoln Square Special Zoning District (New York, N.Y.) Local transit Local transit - Cuba - Havana Loew's Triboro Theater (New York, N.Y.) Los Angeles, (Calif.) Lowe, Stanley Lower Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Low-income housing Lutheran Church in America Lyc?e Fran?ais de New York Lyceum Theater (New York, N.Y.) M Macy's (Firm) Manhattan Bridge (New York, N.Y.) Mansions - New York (State) - New York Manufacturing industries - New York (State) - New York Marriott Marquis Hotel (New York, N.Y.) Mass media and culture Maynard, Joan Metropolitan Museum Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Millstein, Barbara Milstein, Paul Minifie, Benjamin Mintz, Ward Morningside Heights, Inc. Morosco Theater (New York, N.Y.) Lewis Gouverneur and Nathalie Bailey Morris House (New York, N.Y.) Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 Mugging Municipal Art Society of New York Municipal Asphalt Plant (New York, N.Y.) Murphy, George E. N National Conference on Community Conservation Through Historic Preservation Nehemiah Housing Program Neighborhood Association for the Preservation of the Fifth Avenue Houses Neighborhood Committee on the Asphalt Plant Neighborhood Preservation Companies Act New Haven (Conn.) New Jersey Nets (Basketball team) New York (N.Y.) - Buildings, structures, etc. New York (N.Y.) - Description and travel New York (N.Y.) - History New York (N.Y.). City Planning Commission New York (N.Y.). Landmarks Preservation Commission New York (State) - New York - Social conditions New York Cancer Hospital (New York, N.Y.) New York City Lunatic Asylum (New York, N.Y.) New York City Partnership New York City Police Headquarters (New York, N.Y.) New York Landmarks Conservancy New York Public Library New York University New York, Westchester & Boston Railway Newman, Milton O Ocean Parkway Scenic Landmark (New York, N.Y.) O'Dwyer, Paul, 1907-1998 Office buildings - New York (State) - New York Oppenheimer, Herbert Orsid Realty Co. Our Lady of Lourdes Church (New York, N.Y.) Oyster Bar (Restaurant) P Parachute Jump (New York, N.Y.) Parades - New York (State) - New York Park Slope Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Parker Meridien Hotel (New York, N.Y.) Parking garages - New York (State) - New York Parks - New York (State) - New York Penn Central Transportation Company Pepsi-Cola Building (New York, N.Y.) Phelps Stokes-J. P. Morgan, Jr. House (New York, N.Y.) Picadilly Hotel (New York, N.Y.) Pier A (New York, N.Y.) Piers Pittsburgh (Pa.) Pomander Walk (New York, N.Y.) Portman, John Calvin Postcards - New York (State) - New York Potts, Frank Prentice, Tim Preservation League of New York State Preservation League of New York State - Awards Prospect Cemetery (New York, N.Y.) Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.) Public Arts Council Public Baths (New York, N.Y.) Public housing - New York (State) - New York Public School 243 (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) Public School 39 (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) Public spaces Pyramid Companies Q Queens (New York, N.Y.) - Buildings, structures, etc R Radio City Music Hall (New York, N.Y.) Railroads Randall's Island (N.Y.) Ransom Place (Indianapolis, Ind.) Rathe, Fred Ravitch, Richard Register (New York, N.Y.) Rego Park (New York, N.Y.) Rent - New York (State) - New York Rental housing - New York (State) - New York Renwick, James, 1818-1895 Isaac L. Rice Mansion (New York, N.Y.) Riverside Drive-West 105th Street Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Riverside Park (New York, N.Y.) Riverside South (New York, N.Y.) Riverside Towers Hotel (New York, N.Y.) Riverside-Edgecombe Neighborhood Association Roads Rockefeller Center Rockefeller, David, 1915- Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1906- Rockefeller, Laurence Spelman Rockefeller, Nelson A, (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.) Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial (Washington, D.C.) Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House (New York, N.Y.) Roth, Richard Rouse Company Rouse, James W. Rovsek, Richard Row houses S Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution) Saint Bartholomew's Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) Saint George's Episcopal Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) Saint Paul's Memorial Church (New York, N.Y.) Saint Peter's Church (Episcopal), Westchester, Complex and Cemetery (Bronx, New York, N.Y.) Samson Management Corp. Schepmoes, Lindsley Morris and Laurette Schinasi House (New York, N.Y.) Segal, Martin E. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Social aspects - New York (State) - New York Seymour, Whitney North, 1901-1984 Shopping malls Shopsin, William C. Sieradzki, Maurice Simon, Donald Henry T. and Jessie Sloane House (New York, N.Y.) Small business Smallpox Hospital (New York, N.Y.) Society for Ethical Culture (New York, N.Y.) SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Sonnenberg, Benjamin, 1901-1978 South Bronx (New York, N.Y.) South Street Seaport Museum (New York, N.Y.) Spatt, Beverly Moss Spencer Memorial Church (New York, N.Y.) St. George's Church (New York, N.Y.) St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral (New York, N.Y.) Stadiums Stanford, Peter Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) - Buildings, structures, etc. Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) Statue of Liberty National Monument (N.Y. and N.J.) Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Commission Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, inc. Stavisky, Leonard Steinway Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Stores, Retail Stores, Retail - New York (State) - New York Strecker Laboratory (New York, N.Y.) Stuyvesant Polyclinic (New York, N.Y.) Stuyvesant Square Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Subways Sullivan, Donald Superstores Surface Transportation Act Surgeon's House (New York Naval Shipyard) Sutton, Percy E. Synagogues - New York (State) - New York T Thanksgiving Day Theaters - New York (State) - New York Thompson, Benjamin, 1918-2002 Times Square (New York, N.Y.) Tour buses Towers Nursing Home (New York, N.Y.) Traffic Congestion Trinity Lutheran Church (Staten Island, New York, N.Y.) Trump, Donald, 1946- Trump Tower (New York, N.Y.) Tweed Courthouse (New York, N.Y.) Two Trees Inc. U Union Square Greenmarket (New York, N.Y.) United States - Economic conditions Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.) - Buildings, structures, etc. Upper East Side Historic District (New York, N.Y.) Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.) Urban policy Urban policy - Michigan - Detroit Urban policy - New York (State) - Binghamton Urban policy - New York (State) - Schenectady Urban policy - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh Urban policy - United States Urban renewal Urban renewal - Michigan - Detroit Urban renewal - New Jersey - Newark Urban renewal - New York (State) - Binghamton Urban renewal - New York (State) - New York Urban renewal - New York (State) - New York - Case studies Urban renewal - New York (State) - Schenectady Urban renewal - Ohio - Columbus Urban renewal - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh Urban renewal - United States Urban transportation policy Urstadt, Charles J. V Van Cortlandt Mansion (New York, N.Y.) Vaux, Calvert Verdi Square Scenic Landmark (New York, N.Y.) Villard Houses (New York, N.Y.) W Walden School (New York, N.Y.) Walentas, David C. Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) Ward's Island (New York, N.Y.) Washington Square Park (New York, N.Y.) Washington Street Urban Renewal Project (New York, N.Y.) Waterfronts - New York (State) - New York Waterside (New York, N.Y.) Weeksville (New York, N.Y.) West Side Highway Project (N.Y.) West Side Urban Renewal Area (New York, N.Y.) Westway (New York, N.Y.) Wiesel, Edwin Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.) Abraham J. Wood House (New York, N.Y.) Woolworth Building (New York, N.Y.) World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.) Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House (New York, N.Y.) Z Zoning - New York (State) - New York Zuccotti, John E. Zuckerman, Mortimer
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NYPAP
and journalist Roberta Gratz have received a grant from the Kress
Foundation to archive Ms. Gratz’s extensive writing on the
historic preservation movement in New York City. Marianne Percival
was hired to create a database of all Ms. Gratz’s articles,
which she completed in February 2003. Ms. Percival also compiled
copies of the articles into a notebook in chronological order.
NYPAP will provide public access to the database through its website
and we intend, copyrights permitting, to scan the articles and
provide PDF files as part of the Gratz Database. In addition, access
is available to the database and notebook at the NYPAP office.