Useful Links

ORGANIZATIONS

  1. Bowery Alliance of Neighbors
  2. City Lore
  3. DOCOMOMO
  4. East Village Community Coalition
  5. Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
  6. Historic Districts Council
  7. Lower East Side History Project
  8. Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy
  9. Lower East Side Preservation Initiative Facebook Page
  10. Municipal Art Society
  11. Museum of Chinese in America
  12. National Trust for Historic Preservation
  13. Neighborhood Preservation Center
  14. New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
  15. New York Landmarks Conservancy
  16. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation
  17. Tenement Museum
  18. Two Bridges Neighborhood Council

LESPI IN THE NEWS

  1. East 10th Landmarked, But Not Before Controversial Renovation is Approved - The Local East Village NYTimes.com, January 17, 2012
  2. Landmarking Push Doesn't Bother Shaoul - The Local East Village NYTimes.com, December 15, 2011
  3. City Council Votes to Strip 135 Bowery of Landmark Designation - Our Town Downtown, September 28, 2011
  4. In Favor of a Historic District: It Preserves Local Character - The Local East Village NYTimes.com, August 10, 2011: An Opinion piece written by LESPI Steering Committee members Britton Baine and Richard Moses
  5. C.B. 3 approves E.V. plan at tense meeting - Downtown Express, August 3, 2011
  6. A First Look at Karl Fischer’s Design for 427 East 12th Street - The Local East Village NYTimes.com, August 1, 2011
  7. Houses of worship opposed to historic district may sue - The Villager, July 14 - 20, 2011

  8. Pyramid and cinema in proposed district; Church says, Nyet - The Villager, June 23-29

  9. East Village Historic Area Could Include Birthplace of Drag - DNAinfo.com, May 27, 2011
  10. Revised Plan Broadens Historic District - The Local East Village NYTimes.com, May 25, 2011
  11. Residents Laud Historic District Plan - The Local East Village NYTimes.com, May 12, 2011
  12. Developer Meets on Fate of 35 Cooper - The Local East Village NYTimes.com, April 12, 2011
  13. Dozens Gather at Vigil for 35 Cooper - The Local East Village NYTimes.com, February 22, 2011
  14. The Protest At The Asian Pub - New York Press, January 28, 2011
  15. Church says nyet, community says da on landmarking - The Villager, July 29 - August 4, 2010
  16. Bowery charm fades, overcome by high-end consumers - Washington Square News, February 3, 2011

    NYC LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COMMISSION: LOCAL DESIGNATION REPORTS

    1. Aschenbroedel Verein (later Gesangverein Schillerbund) now LA MAMA Experimental Theatre Club Building - 74 East 4th Street, 1873 altered 1892
    2. Charlie Parker Residence - 151 Avenue B, ca. 1849
    3. Children's Aid Society, Tompkins Square Lodging House for Boys and Industrial School, aka Eleventh Ward Lodging House - 295 East 8th Street at Avenue B, 1886
    4. Church of the Immaculate Conception (formerly Grace Chapel) - 406-412 East 14th Street, 1894
    5. Citizens Savings Bank - 58 Bowery aka 150 Canal Street, 1922-24
    6. (former) Congregation Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Anshe Ungarn - 242 East 7th Street, 1908
    7. Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Foundation Building - Cooper Square between Astor Place and East 7th Street, 1853-59
    8. Daniel Leroy House - 20 St. Mark's Place, 1832
    9. DeVinne Press Building - 393-99 Lafayette Street, 1885
    10. East 10th Street Historic District - btn. Avenues A&B. Designated January 17, 2012
    11. Edward Mooney House - 18 Bowery, 1785-89
    12. Eleventh Street Methodist Episcopal Chapel, later People's Home Church and Settlement, now The Father's Heart Church - 545 East 11th Street, 1867-68
    13. First Houses - Avenue A and East 3rd Street, 1935-36
    14. First Ukrainian Assembly of God (originally Metropolitan Savings Bank) - 9 East 7th Street, 1869
    15. Free Public Baths of the City of New York, East Eleventh Street Bath - 538 East 11th Street, 1904-05
    16. Germania Fire Insurance Company Bowery Building - 357 Bowery, 1870
    17. Hamilton-Holly House - 4 St. Mark's Place, 1831
    18. Hardenbrook-Somarindyck House - 135 Bowery, 1817 (DE-LANDMARKED BY NY CITY COUNCIL IN 2011)
    19. Henry Street Settlement, 263 Henry Street Building - 263 Henry Street, 1827
    20. Louis N. Jaffe Art Theater (Yiddish Art Theater / Yiddish Folks Theater) Building - 181-189 Second Avenue, 1925-26
    21. Louis N. Jaffe Art Theater (Yiddish Art Theater / Yiddish Folks Theater) Interior - 181-189 Second Avenue, 1925-26
    22. New York City Marble Cemetery - 52-74 East 2nd Street, between Second and First Avenues, 1831
    23. New York Marble Cemetery - interior block between East 2nd and 3rd Streets, Second Avenue to Bowery, entered from Second Avenue, 1830
    24. Ottendorfer Branch, New York Public Library - 135 Second Avenue, 1883-84
    25. Public National Bank of New York Building, later Public National Bank and Trust Company of New York Building - 106 Avenue C, aka 231 East 7th Street, 1923
    26. Ralph and Ann E. Van Wyck Mead House, later Isaac Hopper Home of the Women's Prison Association - 110 Second Avenue, 1837-38
    27. Saint Mark's-in-the-Bowery - East 10th Street at Second Avenue, 1799, steeple 1828, portico 1854
    28. Saint Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church - 288 East 10th Street aka 155 Avenue A, 1882-83
    29. Stuyvesant-Fish House - 21 Stuyvesant Street, 1803-04
    30. Tompkins Square Branch, New York Public Library - 331 East 10th Street, 1904
    31. Webster Hall and Annex - 125 East 11th Street, 1886-87 and 1892

    OTHER INTERESTING LINKS

    1. Bowery Artists Tribute
    2. Cinema Treasures: includes interesting historical information on movie theaters around the country including the Lower East Side
    3. Family of Tom Blanck & Maggie Land Blanck: Kleindeutschland & the Lower East Side
    4. German Traces NYC
    5. Lower East Side Preservation Initiative's Let's Save the East Village / Lower East Side event video
    6. New York Architecture
    7. "New York City [color] photos by Charles W. Cushman reveal 1940s life in the Big Apple" - from Daily Mail's MailOnline.com (UK)
    8. NYC Fire Dept. - History of Manhattan Engine Companies - includes archival photos
    9. NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission's Rowhouse Manual
    10. Project Neon