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Preserving New York: Then and Now Symposium
Saturday, February 23, 2008
8:00 am – 6:00 pm

At the Museum of the City of New York

1220 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street)

New York, NY 10029

The all–day event featured panel presentations and discussions that focus on key issues of concern to New York City’s preservation movement, past and present.

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  • “Where Did the ‘History’ Go in Historic Preservation?”
    +Jane McNamara, Senior Program Officer, New York Council for the Humanities
    Andrew Dolkart, James Marston Fitch Associate Professor of Historic Preservation, Columbia University
    Ned Kaufman
    , Kaufman Heritage Conservation, New York
    Michael Miscone, Manhattan Borough Historian

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  • “The Media and Preservation: New Media, Old Roles?”
    +Francis Morrone, Art and architecture critic and columnist for The New York Sun
    Alan G. Brake, Associate Editor, The Architect’s Newspaper
    Jonathan Butler, Founder and Editor, Brownstoner.com
    Suzanne Stephens, Deputy Editor, Architectural Record

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  • "Preservation and Progress"
    Mary Schmidt Campbell, Chair, New York State Council on the Arts--Introduction
    +Anne Van Ingen
    , Director, Architecture, Planning & Design, NYSCA
    Robert A.M. Stern Dean
    , Yale School of Architecture
    Kenneth T. Jackson
    , Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University

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  • “Changing Preservation Advocacy Over the Decades”
    +Amy Freitag, Deputy Commissioner for Capital Projects, City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation
    Melissa Baldock, Director of Preservation and Research, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation - Transcript
    Randall Mason, Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania
    - Transcript - Coming Soon

  • “The Preservation Civic Sector in Times of Change”
    +Eric Allison, Co-founder & academic coordinator, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Pratt Institute
    Andrew Berman, Executive Director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
    Frances Kunreuther, Director, Building Movement Project
    Kevin Wolfe, Architect and Co-founder of the Douglaston & Little Neck Historical Society

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  • Rapporteur
    Tony Hiss, Visiting Scholar, Wagner School of Public Service, NYU

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+ Denotes Moderator

Support for Preserving New York – Then and Now is provided by the Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation, Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects, Platt Byard Dovell White Architects, A. Ottavino Corporation, Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, Polshek Partnership Architects, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP, and Walter B. Melvin Architects, LLC.


The symposium is co-sponsored by Beaux Arts Alliance; Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Graduate Program in Historic Preservation Planning, Cornell University; Friends of Terra Cotta; The Gotham Center for NYC History/CUNY; Historic Districts Council; Historic House Trust of New York City; Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America; James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation; National Trust for Historic Preservation; New York Landmarks Conservancy; New York University Archives/Public History Program; NYU Urban Design and Architecture Studies; Pratt Institute; Preservation League of New York State; Rutgers University; St. Mark’s Historic Landmark Fund/Neighborhood Preservation Center; Society of Architectural Historians, New York Chapter; Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania.