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Spring 2025 Newsletter

Welcome to the 41st edition of the New York Preservation Archive Project's newsletter. Dive in to learn about preservation history and our current work.

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Servant of Beauty

Servant of Beauty: Landmarks, Secret Love, and the Unimagined Life of an Unsung New York Hero is the true story of the interplay between the two all-consuming passions of this unheralded civic champion: his love of beauty in the public realm that would forever change New York City, and his love for a younger man that would forever change Bard.

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New Oral History: George Calderaro

George Calderaro is the founding director of the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project. He is a long-time communications professional and advocate for historic preservation.

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New Oral History: Shanna Sabio

Shanna Sabio is the co-founding director of GrowHouse Community Design and Development Group and a co-trustee of the Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition. Her work supports building inclusive communities through cooperative economics, public education, and reparative land ownership and stewardship.

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New Oral History: Peter Pennoyer

Peter Pennoyer is the principal and founder of Peter Pennoyer Architects, a preservation architecture firm that designed the Art Deco-inspired clock in Moynihan Train Hall.

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Saving Papers

A major part of what we do here at the Archive Project centers on collecting and finding homes for key archives of preservation history. For example, in 2019, Executive Director Brad Vogel, Jeffe Fellow Josie Naron, Archive Project founder Anthony Wood, and Diego Robayo of Historic Districts Council sorted through the late Jack Taylor's papers!

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Preservation History Database

Our preservation history database is rife with the stuff that makes up the history of preservation. Detailing key battles, figures, policies, and places in New York City's preservation history, this is an incredible resource for researchers. With new entries constantly being added, this "encyclopedia" of NYC Preservation history is a must visit!

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About Us

Our Story and Mission

The New York Preservation Archive Project is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, celebrating, and educating about the history of historic preservation in New York City.

Recognizing the instructive and inspirational importance of this history to the continued health, success and growth of preservation in our City, the Archive Project hopes to bring these stories to light through public programs, oral histories, and providing public access to information. The Archive Project is devoted to celebrating neglected narratives of New York historic preservation using the archives that hold these stories.

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