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Description: "There now exists a once in a century opportunity to not only restore Penn Station to its rightful place, but to make it the centerpiece of a coordinated and fully modern transportation system built for the needs of the 21st Century."
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Subject: Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.), Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , City planning, Transportation
Group: Urban development
Creator: Rethink Penn Station NYC (Campaign)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: Mission: "To dramatically enhance the quality of life in the New York City metropolitan area by rebuilding the original Pennsylvania Station as the centerpiece of a new world-class transportation network for the entire region."
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Subject: Land use, City planning, Transportation, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)
Group: Transportation
Creator: National Civic Art Society
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Organized in 1977, the PLSI's mission is to enrich Staten Island's sense of community by promoting and advocating the conservation of its diverse and significant historic built environment and cultural landscapes."
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Preservation League of Staten Island
Coverage: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
Borough: Staten Island
Status on live web: Unavailable
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: The mission of the New York Preservation Archive Project is to protect the endangered narratives of historic preservation in New York.
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Subject: Historic preservation, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Monuments--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: New York Preservation Archive Project
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Landmarks Preservation Commission is the New York City agency that is responsible for identifying and designating the City's landmarks and the buildings in the City's historic districts. The Commission also regulates changes to designated buildings. Some landmark designation reports are available at this site--many others are available at the Neighborhood Preservation Center site."
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: New York (N.Y.). Landmarks Preservation Commission
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Staten Island, Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: Maps and describes landmark preservation activity on behalf of this Manhattan neighborhood located between 59th and 110th Streets, between the Hudson River and Central Park.
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Subject: Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc., Architecture--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Landmark West! (Group : New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Gracie Mansion Conservancy is a private not-for-profit corporation established to preserve, maintain, enhance, and enliven Gracie Mansion – one of the oldest surviving wood structures in Manhattan and home to the sitting mayors of New York City and their families since 1942, when the LaGuardia’s arrived as the first official residents."
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Subject: Gracie Mansion (New York, N.Y.), Mayors--Dwellings, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Gracie Mansion Conservancy
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "In July of 2007, upon learning that four brownstones on West End Ave - 508 & 510 WEA (between 84th and 85th Streets) and 732 & 734 WEA (between 95th & 96th Streets) - were threatened with demolition, a small group of concerned neighbors joined forces and the West End Preservation Society was born."
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, West End Avenue (New York, N.Y.)
Group: Neighborhood associations
Creator: West End Preservation Society
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Washington Street Advocacy Group’s most urgent project is to identify a way to protect and save three buildings on Washington Street in Lower Manhattan: St. George’s Syrian Catholic Church at 103 Washington Street, the Downtown Community House at 105-107 Washington Street, and a sole surviving tenement at 109 Washington Street."
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Subject: 103 Washington Street (New York, N.Y.), 105-107 Washington Street (New York, N.Y.), 109 Washington Street (New York, N.Y.), Historic preservation, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Washington Street Advocacy Group (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Victorian Society In America is the only national non-profit organization committed to historic preservation, protection, understanding, education, and enjoyment of our nineteenth century heritage."
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Subject: Architecture, Victorian, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Victorian Society in America
Coverage: United States
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: New York City chapter of the Victorian Society in America, dedicated to appreciation and preservation of our nineteenth-century architectural heritage.
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Subject: Architecture--History--19th century, Architecture--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Victorian Society in America. Metropolitan Chapter
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: Advocacy group opposing the master plan promoted by New York Public Library management to renovate the historic central research library (42nd Street Library).
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Subject: Research libraries, Public libraries, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Committee to Save NYPL
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Roosevelt Island Historical Society promotes awareness of our Island's unique story and pursues preservation of its landmarks and artifacts. The purpose of the Society is to recover, maintain and disseminate the record of Roosevelt Island's heritage from Colonial times to the present."
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Subject: Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.)
Group: Historical societies
Creator: Roosevelt Island Historical Society
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Queens Modern project seeks to survey, document, research, and promote mid-century and modern architecture in the borough of Queens, New York ... This project is supported by a grant from the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature."
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Subject: Historic preservation, Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Queens (New York, N.Y.
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Tolbert, Frampton
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Queens
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Preservation Long Island is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization committed to working with Long Islanders to protect, preserve, and celebrate our cultural heritage through advocacy, education, and the stewardship of historic sites and collections. We were founded in 1948 as the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities in response to intense post-World War II development with a mission to preserve individual historic buildings and artifacts through the creation of house museums. In 2017, we adopted a new name to communicate our core mission more clearly. Today, Preservation Long Island advances the importance of historic preservation in the region through advocacy, education, and stewardship."
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Subject: Historic preservation, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Preservation Long Island
Coverage: Long Island (N.Y.)
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Places connect us to the past, host community and cultural traditions, and keep local environments distinctive. City Lore and the Municipal Art Society founded the Place Matters project in 1998 to identify, promote, and protect such places in New York City."
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Subject: Historic sites--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Creator: Place Matters (Project)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Staten Island, Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The New York Landmarks Conservancy is dedicated to preserving, revitalizing, and reusing New York's architecturally significant buildings."
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Subject: Historic preservation, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Architecture--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: New York Landmarks Conservancy
Coverage: New York (State)
Borough: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Historic House Trust of New York City, in partnership with NYC Parks, advocates for, promotes, and provides expertise to preserve 23 publicly owned historic sites located throughout the city’s five boroughs."
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic sites--Conservation and restoration, Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Historic House Trust of New York City
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: Organization dedicated to preserving the architectural legacy, livability, and sense of place of the Upper East Side in New York, New York.
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Subject: Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Friends of the Upper East Side (Organization : New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: Society to foster public appreciation and understanding and support the preservation of Art Deco works in New York City.
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Subject: Art deco (Architecture), Historic preservation, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historical societies
Creator: Art Deco Society of New York
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is the largest municipal preservation agency in the nation. It is responsible for protecting New York City's architecturally, historically, and culturally significant buildings and sites by granting them landmark or historic district status, and regulating them after designation. The agency is comprised of a panel of 11 commissioners who are appointed by the Mayor and supported by a staff of approximately 70 preservationists, researchers, architects, historians, attorneys, archaeologists, and administrative employees. There are more than 36,000 landmark properties in New York City, most of which are located in 141 historic districts and historic district extensions in all five boroughs. The total number of protected sites also includes 1,398 individual landmarks, 119 interior landmarks, and 10 scenic landmarks"
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Description: "Mission: While We Are Still Here (WWSH) ensures that the “post-gentrification” community of Harlem and beyond will honor and find a meaningful connection to the legacy of African American achievement, and its paramount importance to world culture; Objective: To create lasting tributes to the movers and shakers of Edgecombe Avenue and beyond by erecting, publishing, and presenting: a monument, a book, and a series of public events. WWSH will also collect oral histories; Vision: Will educate, enshrine, and preserve the extraordinary legacy of two historical landmark buildings [409 & 555 Edgecombe Avenue] that were vital to the intellectual, cultural, social, and political advancements of the Harlem community and the African Diaspora."
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Description: Database of cast-iron front buildings in New York City not yet designated as landmarks. Project of the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America.
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Subject: Cast-iron fronts (Architecture), Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Description: "The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) promotes the study, interpretation, and conservation of architecture, design, landscapes, and urbanism worldwide for the benefit of all. SAH serves a network of local, national, and international institutions and individuals who, by vocation or avocation, focus on the built environment and its role in shaping contemporary life."
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Subject: Architecture, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Description: "The Queens Historical Society (QHS) is the historical society for the largest borough in New York City and is dedicated to preserving the history of Queens through educational programs, exhibitions and its role as a local history research center."
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Subject: Queens (New York, N.Y.) --History--Societies, etc., Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historical societies
Creator: Queens Historical Society (Flushing, New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: Queens (New York, N.Y.), New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Queens
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Preservation League of New York State is dedicated to the protection of New York’s diverse and rich heritage of historic buildings, districts, and landscapes."
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Historic sites--Conservation and restoration, Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Preservation League of New York State
Coverage: New York (State)
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The BBPA organize and coordinate activities for the improvement of the neighborhood from Beach 24 th Street to Beach 27 th Street between Seagirt Boulevard and the boardwalk in Far Rockaway Queens, NY. As our name states the BBPA is dedicated to the preservation of bungalows and one of the last remaining bungalow colonies in Far Rockaway and along the Rockaway peninsula."
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Subject: Historic preservation, Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Bungalows
Description: In the course of restoring historic structures in both nations [United States and France], Preservation Volunteers assists in revitalizing communities and bringing their histories to life, while offering its volunteers a broadened cultural experience and valuable training in sometimes lost skills."
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic sites--Conservation and restoration, Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Preservation Volunteers
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Brooklyn
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: Greater Portland Landmarks publishes the Landmarks Observer, a quarterly newspaper offering information on upcoming events, local preservation issues, and profiles of historic buildings, landscapes and public art.
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Greater Portland Landmarks, Inc.
Coverage: Portland (Me.)
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Places connect us to the past, host community and cultural traditions, and keep local environments distinctive. City Lore and the Municipal Art Society founded the Place Matters project in 1998 to identify, promote, and protect such places in New York City."
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Subject: Historic sites--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Place Matters (Project)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy is the only non-profit organization dedicated solely to the historic preservation of the Lower East Side’s sacred sites."
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Subject: Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Description: The Landmarks Preservation Commission is the New York City agency that is responsible for identifying and designating the City's landmarks and the buildings in the City's historic districts. The Commission also regulates changes to designated buildings. Some landmark designation reports are available at this site--many others are available at the Neighborhood Preservation Center site.
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Subject: New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc., Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: New York (N.Y.). Landmarks Preservation Commission
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: This database will soon house printable PDF files of the entire collection of NYC Landmark Designation Reports. Reports are entered based on the year a property was designated as a Landmark and the earliest reports are now available. NOTE: Archived reports accessible only through "view all" link.
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Neighborhood Preservation Center (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Seneca Village Project is dedicated to the study of a 19th-century African-American and Irish-immigrant community that was located intoday's Central Park in New York City. The goal of the project is to conduct further research on the site and to commemorate it in an educational context. The Seneca Village Project includes several integrated components: archaeological and archival research and education."
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Subject: Central Park (New York, N.Y.), Seneca Village (New York, N.Y.), Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Excavations (Archaeology)
Creator: Seneca Village Project
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Status on live web: Unavailable
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic sites, Historic districts, Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: New York (N.Y.). Landmarks Preservation Commission
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Indiana Landmarks is a nonprofit organization, fighting to defend architecturally unique, historically significant, and communally cherished properties." Website includes Hidden Gems blog.
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Subject: Historic preservation, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Indiana Landmarks
Coverage: Indiana
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
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Subject: Hell's Kitchen (New York, N.Y.), Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Planning
Group: Neighborhood associations
Creator: Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Status on live web: Unavailable
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Historic Richmond Town was founded as the Staten Island Historical Society in 1856. The institution still uses both names but is more popularly known as Historic Richmond Town. The museum's focus is to create opportunities for the public to explore the diversity of the American experience from the colonial period to the present."
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Subject: History--Societies, etc., Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Group: Historical societies
Creator: Historic Richmond Town
Coverage: New York (N.Y.), Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
Borough: Staten Island
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation was founded in 1980 to preserve the architectural heritage and cultural history of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. GVSHP is a leader in protecting the sense of place and human scale that define the Village's unique community."
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Subject: Architecture, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic districts--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: Database of cast-iron front buildings in New York City not yet designated as landmarks. Project of the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America.
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Subject: Cast-iron fronts (Architecture), Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Victorian Society in America. Metropolitan Chapter
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Brownstone Revival Committee of New York (BRC) was founded in 1968 by residents of brownstone communities to defend and preserve that housing and those old New York neighborhoods. Within two years it grew to 2,000 members ...The Brownstone Revival Committee was renamed the Brownstone Revival Coalition in 1996 and still exists today, although the neighborhoods it was created to defend no longer face the same threats."
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation, Row houses
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Brownstone Revival Coalition
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "This website, which takes the form of a virtual walking tour, grew out of the successful effort to establish an Audubon Park Historic District on land in northern Manhattan that had once been part of John James Audubon's farm Minniesland. That effort was one of many community-focused initiatives undertaken by a group of people who have since coalesced into the Audubon Park Alliance. The Audubon Park virtual walk--or, actual walk if you live nearby and visit in person--focuses on Audubon Park’s history from about 1841 to 1915 and traces its development from farm to suburb to cityscape."
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic districts
Description: "The Wooden House Project is intended to be a community for those owners and lovers of Brooklyn’s wood-frame row houses. It is our hope is that in building this community these underappreciated, hearty little survivors earn the love, recognition, and preservation they deserve."
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Subject: Wooden-frame houses, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Wooden House Project
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Brooklyn
Status on live web: Unavailable
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Hamilton Heights-West Harlem Community Preservation Organization ('CPO') is a non-profit grassroots volunteer organization which seeks to bring together the many and varied community organizations--tenant, block, homeowners associations, local businesses and institutions to resolve issues, advocate for services from public agencies and celebrate our unique and diverse community. Founded in 1996, the CPO's mission is to inform, educate and advocate on issues that impact the quality of life in West Harlem. We seek to celebrate the diverse people, culture and communities of West Harlem and to preserve its unique architecture and historic places."
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Subject: Neighborhood planning, Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation, Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District (New York, N.Y.)
Description: The Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities (SPLIA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to understanding, celebrating, and preserving Long Island’s cultural heritage.
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Description: "The St. Mark's Historic Landmark Fund was founded by a group of concerned citizens in 1979 following a devastating fire at St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery, a remarkable East Village ensemble of buildings and landscaped property dating back to 1799. Originally founded as the Friends of St. Mark's in 1975, which became the Citizens to Save St. Mark's and then formalized as the St. Mark's Historic Landmark Fund, the volunteer organization raised over $2.5 million after a fire in 1978 to support an ambitious renewal project and--in a program that drew national attention--rebuilt the church."
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Subject: St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.), Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: St. Mark's Historic Landmark Fund
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Status on live web: Unavailable
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
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Subject: Hotel Pennsylvania (New York, N.Y.), Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Hotel Pennsylvania Preservation Society
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: The CECPP is a watchdog group monitoring the work of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , New York (N.Y.). Landmarks Preservation Commission
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Citizens Emergency Committee to Preserve Preservation
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island
Status on live web: Unavailable
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Why this blog exists: To show why it is important to safeguard and preserve the aesthetic and cultural heritage of Bedford Stuyvesant Historic Districts."
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Subject: Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Coverage: New York (N.Y.), Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)
Borough: Brooklyn
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Rego-Forest Preservation Council seeks to preserve and commemorate the architectural and cultural history of Rego Park, Forest Hills, and adjacent neighborhoods of Queens, NY. We work with citizens, affiliate organizations, and property owners on local, city, state, & federal levels. Avenues include Individual Landmarks, Historic Districts, Rezonings, State & National Register properties and districts; to ultimately provide funding assistance for restoration and adaptive reuse, safeguard community character, and convey historic pride for current and future generations."
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Subject: Forest Hills (New York, N.Y.), Rego Park (New York, N.Y.), Neighborhood planning, Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Group: Neighborhood associations
Creator: Rego-Forest Preservation Council
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Queens
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Seneca Village Project is dedicated to the study of a 19th-century African-American and Irish-immigrant community that was located intoday's Central Park in New York City. The goal of the project is to conduct further research on the site and to commemorate it in an educational context. The Seneca Village Project includes several integrated components: archaeological and archival research and education."
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Subject: Excavations (Archaeology), Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Seneca Village (New York, N.Y.), Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Seneca Village Project
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The East Village Community Coalition works to recognize, support, and sustain the built and cultural character of the East Village. This character includes a diverse population; low-rise, human scale blocks and affordable buildings with historic and architectural significance; a multitude of community gardens; indigenous stores and businesses; and the neighborhood’s history and ongoing tradition as a haven for those seeking freedom to express artistic, creative, and social concerns."
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Subject: Neighborhood planning, Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Description: "It is the objective and purpose of the Douglaston and Little Neck Historical Society, Inc. to publicize, preserve, and protect the historical significance of the towns of Douglaston and Little Neck, adjacent nature preserves, and those other sections or buildings of the two towns worthy of preservation through the collection, research, and dissemination of historical information to the public."
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Subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic districts--Conservation and restoration
Description: "Defenders of the Historic Upper East Side is a preservation advocacy group founded in 2003 and dedicated to preserving and protecting the Upper East Side historic character. The great array of architectural styles, from 19th century brownstone rowhouses to distinguished early 20th century apartment buildings make our neighborhood some of the most expensive and desirable real estate in the world and a magnet for intense development pressure. Misguided, well-funded development projects, seeking to enrich the few at the expense of the larger community, will always assault us."
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Subject: Neighborhood planning, Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Description: "The Bushwiki is a pool of resources and information on the historic Bushwick Avenue community in Brooklyn, NY. It was created by a group of graduate students in the Columbia University Historic Preservation 2011 Spring Studio with the goal of highlighting Bushwick's history and community."
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Subject: Bushwick (New York, N.Y.), Historic preservation, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Columbia University. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
Coverage: New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Brooklyn
Status on live web: Unavailable
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Bronx County Historical Society, founded in 1955, is a private, non-profit, educational and cultural institution chartered by the New York State Board of Regents. The BCHS, the historical agency for The Bronx, a county of New York State and a borough of the city of New York, is dedicated to the collection, preservation, documentation and interpretation of the history of The Bronx and lower Westchester County from its earliest historical references in the 17th century through the present."
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Subject: Historic districts--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historical societies
Creator: Bronx County Historical Society
Coverage: Bronx (New York, N.Y.), Bronx County (N.Y.), New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Bronx
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: The mission of the Trust for Architectural Easements is to preserve America’s architectural heritage. We accomplish this mission primarily through the acceptance and stewardship of historic preservation easements.
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Subject: Historic preservation, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Trust for Architectural Easements
Coverage: United States
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
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Subject: Croton Aqueduct (N.Y.), Historic sites--Conservation and restoration, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration , Historic preservation
Group: Historic preservation
Creator: Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct
Coverage: New York (State)
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
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