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Bed-Stuy blocks approved to be landmarked despite protests from Orthodox Jewish residents
Two blocks in Bedford-Stuyvesant have been landmarked despite protestations from many Orthodox Jews who say it forces them out of their homes.
NYC building's quirky signs could be painted over with trendy Fendi ads: 'An architectural crime'
Tribeca residents are fresco-fretting over the fate of quirky paintings on the side of a historic building that the owners want to replace with trendy Fendi ads
Orthodox Jews in Bed Stuy say anti-Israel lefty pols trying to force them out of neighborhood with landmarking designation
Fifty Satmar Jewish homeowners in Bed-Stuy are fighting a proposed landmarking they say is an act of anti-Semitism as it prevents them from modifying their homes to accommodate their large...
Fed-up New Yorkers kept in dark by 35-block stretch of scaffolding lament city's never-ending renovations: 'It's ugly as hell'
An Upper West Side avenue has one of the most densely scaffolded stretches in the entire city -- with a more than 30-block-long area having just a single block entirely...
Tech firm pitches replacing 'ugly' 32-foot NYC 5G cell phone towers with nicer poles that blend in
A techie firm is pitching broadband fan Mayor Eric Adams with a new design to replace a network of hulking 2,000, 32-foot high 5G cell phone antenna towers that has drawn...
Adams enters NYC landmark church preservation fight alongside A-list actor
Mayor Eric Adams is weighing in on a years-long battle over whether a historical Upper West Side Church should be knocked down or preserved, The Post has learned.
You, the New York voter, are to blame for city's and state's headlong rush to disaster
If the Big Apple is truly bound for doom this time, it will be because New Yorkers didn't any longer care enough to stop it.
One of Brooklyn's oldest homes, asking $4M, faces murky future
Long known as Brooklyn's best-preserved Dutch Colonial property, this homestead asks $4 million -- but it's fallen into disrepair and plans for it are unclear.
Can-do attitude: NYC building owned by eccentric 'can collector' millionaire may be saved from demolition
An eccentric millionaire property owner — known for collecting cans and bottles in her Brooklyn neighborhood — is now negotiating with the city to save one of the landmarked Manhattan...
NYC to demolish landmark building owned by secret millionaire 'bag lady'
A millionaire New Yorker known for moonlighting as a can collector neglected one of her multiple Manhattan properties for nearly a decade and now the city is set to demolish the landmark-protected townhouse, saying it's...
Crumbling Upper West Side church sues to evict nonprofit as it seeks $33.5M sale
The battle over the landmarked, but crumbling, West-Park Presbyterian Church at Amsterdam Ave. and West 86th St. has moved onto a second front: Manhattan Supreme Court. The tiny congregation wants...
Landmarking lunacy: 'Preserving' the ruins of West-Park Presbyterian
This week Manhattan Community Board 7 voted to oppose the church board's plan to end its landmark status so the building can be sold to a developer for $33 million.
Preservation zealots have a vested interest in UWS church landmark fight
Whether to raze crumbling West-Park Presbyterian Church might not be the easiest call at first glance.
The wild histories behind NYC's oldest private homes
New York looks forward, not backward. Unfortunately, that means many of its oldest and most impressive homes have met the wrecking ball.
Landmarks Commission throws rocks at Ackman's glass penthouse
The commission put off a vote on the design by renowned architect Norman Foster, which would replace a pink stucco home on top of the Upper West Side co-op.
'Fearless Girl' statue may not be able to hold its ground in NYC much longer
The "Fearless Girl" is famous for holding her ground -- but she may not be facing down the New York Stock Exchange for much longer. The popular, plucky statue --...
Old McGraw-Hill building free to start new chapter
Finally free from a pesky preservationists’ lawsuit, the landmarked former McGraw-Hill Building at 330 W. 42nd St. is stepping into a new life as a modern office tower attuned to...
Landmarks panel mustn't kill historic district's lifeline
“Without the museum, there is no historic district,” City Councilwoman Margaret Chin rightly told the Landmarks Preservation Commission in January in support of the plan to build at 250 Water...
'This is our history': NYC activists fight to save Underground Railroad site from becoming condos
Clad in fake stoneface and mostly shorn of its old clapboard and ornament, the dingy, two story house at Riverside Drive and 159th Street isn't much to look at. But...
The Chrysler Building is getting an observation deck
It'll be state of the Art Deco.