Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks
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Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 1:00 P.M.
Discussion of Preserving New York at the historic chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery
As part of the New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend, The Green-Wood Historic Fund and the New York Preservation Archive Project are pleased to present a conversation with Anthony C. Wood, author of the new book Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks. Moderated by Joseph Bresnan, FAIA, and former executive director of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Admission is free but space is limited (suggested $5 donation at the door). Call for reservations 718.768.7300.
A national historic landmark—Green-Wood Cemetery's main entrance is located at 500 25th Street (on 5th Avenue) in Brooklyn. Via subway, take the R to the 25th Street station. For more info, call 718.768.7300 or visit Green-Wood on-line at www.greenwoodcemetery.org
February 23, 2008
at the Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street)
On Saturday, February 23, 2008 the New York Preservation Archive Project, the Museum of the City of New York, and co-sponsoring organizations will present Preserving New York—Then and Now, an all-day symposium to be held at the MCNY. The event focuses on issues that have inspired and shaped the preservation movement in New York City for nearly a hundred years, and it harnesses the energy created by the publication of Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks, to further the emerging dialogue on the history and future of preservation in the city.
The event kicks off with a media festival on Friday, February 22, 2008.
For more information about attending the symposium please contact Liz McEnaney at lmcenaney@nypap.org.
Monday, December 3, 2007 - 6:00 pm
Slide lecture hosted by LANDMARK WEST!
at the landmarked Christ & St. Stephen's Church, 122 West 69th (btw Columbus and Amsterdam)
Tickets must be purchased in advance, call 212-496-1714 or email landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org.
Tickets are $25 for the slide lecture ($15 for students) and $75 for slide lecture and reception.
Please send your check to LANDMARK WEST!, 45 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023.
Space is limited
Thursday, November 29, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.,
Changing Perspectives on Preservation: A Panel Discussion
at The Municipal Art Society MAP
Accompanying the publication of Anthony Wood's new book Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City's Landmarks, this panel will explore the theme of changing perspectives on preservation from the 1940's and 50's -- when hundreds of potential landmarks were demolished in the absence of protection mechanisms, to the present -- when many of the buildings that replaced them are now themselves of interest for landmark designation.
Panelists include Hilary Ballon, architectural historian and Associate Vice Chancellor for New York University Abu Dhabi; Thomas Mellins, architectural historian, writer, co-author of New York 1880, New York 1930 and New York 1960, and Curator of Special Exhibitions at the Museum of the City of New York; and Anthony Wood, Executive Director of the Ittleson Foundation, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University, and founder and chair of the New York Preservation Archive Project. The moderator will be Frank E. Sanchis, Senior Vice President of the Municipal Art Society.
MAS Members, free; Non-members, $10. [Join MAS at the program and receive a $10 discount on your first year's membership, and the members’ 20% discount at Urban Center Books.]
Purchase tickets online, at rsvp@mas.org or 212-935-2075.
