Date: 4/14/2005 7:42:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
From: whitmananne@yahoo.com
To: reysmont@aol.com
Our neighborhood has been ignored even though Eric Washington's book on Manhattanville has highlighted the rich history and culture of the area. I will talk to Eric about the district and maybe he can bring it to their attention again.
Note: forwarded message attached.
Anne Z. Whitman
From: "LANDMARK WEST!"
To: undisclosed-Recipient
Subject: Landmarks Forum
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:51:34 -0400
Calling all preservationists…
Celebrate! Tuesday, April 19, marks the day Mayor Robert Wagner enacted New York’s Landmarks Law in 1965.
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission invites you to a symposium
40 Years of Landmarks Preservation in New York
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
John L. Tishman Auditorium, designed by Joseph Urban
New School University
66 West 12th Street
On April 19, 1965, Mayor Robert Wagner signed into law the bill establishing the Landmarks Law and forming the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. To date, the Commission has designated 1,119 individual landmarks, 83 historic districts, and 11 district extensions, totaling approximately 23,000 buildings. This symposium has been organized to mark the Commission’s fortieth anniversary.
Schedule of Events
1:30 Welcome and Opening remarks
Robert B. Tierney, Chair, Landmarks Preservation Commission
Bob Kerrey, President, New School University
2:00 – 3:15 Creating a Layered City: On Preservation and Development
Panelists: Peg Breen, President, New York Landmarks Conservancy; Richard Cook, Partner, Cook + Fox, Architects; Ken Fisher, Partner, Wolff Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen; and Charles Lockwood, author of Bricks and Brownstones
3:15 – 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:45 Changing New York: The Evolution of the Historic Preservation Movement
Panelists: J. Max Bond Jr., Partner, Davis Brody Bond; Susan Henshaw Jones, President and Director, Museum of the City of New York; Joan Maynard, Executive Director Emeritus, Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant History; Otis Pratt Pearsall, Commissioner, Art Commission of the City of New York; and Charles Platt, Partner, Platt Byard Dovell White, Architects
Moderator: Paul Goldberger, Dean, Parsons School of Design, New School University, and Architecture Critic, The New Yorker
The Landmarks Preservation Commission thanks New School University and
the New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation for their support of this event.
No R.S.V.P. is required for this free event.
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