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2024 Press Releases

Red room with high ceilings and pillars, walls and ceiling covered with red mosaic tile with gold designs

LPC Designates 1 Wall Street Banking Room as an Interior Landmark

June 25, 2024

Tree-lined block with a row of brownstones

LPC Designates Willoughby-Hart Historic District in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant Neighborhood

June 25, 2024

Entrance to fenced cemetery with gravestones, memorial, and flagpole, sign reads 'Frederick Douglass Historic Memorial Park'

Mayor Adams, Landmarks Preservation Commission Designate Staten Island's Frederick Douglass Memorial Park As Individual Landmark

June 18, 2024

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LPC Designates The Brooklyn Edison Building

June 18, 2024

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Ahead of Juneteenth, Mayor Adams Announces Creation of Interactive Audio Tour Exploring City's Abolitionist History

June 6, 2024

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LPC Designates Temple Court Building (Now the Beekman Hotel) Atrium as an Interior Landmark

June 4, 2024

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LPC Launches Climate Resiliency Initiative

May 28, 2024

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LPC Designates the Heckscher Building (Now the Crown Building) as an Individual Landmark

May 14, 2024

NYC skyline

LPC Approves New Rules to Support Restaurants in Historic Districts by Streamlining the Installation of Sidewalk and Roadway Cafes in the Dining Out NYC Program

May 9, 2024

Elevated walkway atop brick embankment

LPC Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Scenic Landmarks with Designation of Old Croton Aqueduct Walk, the First Scenic Landmark in the Bronx

April 16, 2024

Two people crossing a city street in the cross walk. In the background are a historic building, a modern skyscraper, and a historic church.

LPC Launches Portico, a New Permit Application Portal that Makes Filing for Permits Easier and Faster

March 19, 2024

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LPC Designates the Tremont Branch of The New York Public Library in the Bronx

March 5, 2024

2023 Press Releases

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LPC Advances Equity and Climate Resiliency Goals, Strengthens Protections for Vulnerable Buildings, and Promotes City's Economic Growth in 2023

December 21, 2023

Barkin, Levin, & Company Office Pavilion and The Modulightor Building

LPC Designates Two Modern Buildings as Individual Landmarks

December 19, 2023

a field of leaf and there is a metal fence on the far side

LPC Designates Bronx's Joseph Rodman Drake Park and Enslaved People's Burial Ground as Individual Landmark

December 12, 2023

Before and after of 841 Manida Street

LPC Awards Grants to Landmark Buildings Across the City, Announces Completion of Facade Restoration for Previous Grant Recipient in the Bronx

October 25, 2023

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LPC, Council Member Salamanca, NYLPF, The Point CDC, and Local Residents Celebrate the Designation of the Manida Street Historic District with Historic District Markers

October 10, 2023

Newly-Adopted Rules of the Landmarks Preservation Commission

LPC Approves New Rules Streamlining Agency Procedures

July 11, 2023

935 St. Nicholas Avenue Building, John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie Residence, Hotel Cecil & Minton's Playhouse Building

LPC Designates Three Sites with Ties to Jazz History as Individual Landmarks

June 27, 2023

Bronx Opera House, Engine Company 88/Ladder Company 38 Firehouse, Fire Alarm Telegraph Bureau

LPC Designates Three Bronx Sites as Individual Landmarks

June 13, 2023

(Former) Colored School No. 4, brown building with a green tree in front of it

Mayor Adams Announces $6 Million in Funds to Rehabilitate Newly Designated Landmark '(Former) Colored School No. 4'

May 23, 2023

Linden Street Historic District in Bushwick, Brooklyn

LPC Designates the Linden Street Historic District in Bushwick, Brooklyn

May 9, 2023

Vulnerable Historic Buildings Action Plan

Mayor Adams Announces Action Plan to Strengthen Protections for Vulnerable Historic Buildings

April 7, 2023