In just a few months, the city will be awash in exhibitions and events celebrating the 50th anniversary of New York’s Landmarks Law. How appropriate that Mr. Silver – who has spent the past half-century living and teaching in England – is making another return visit. He will be speaking on Wednesday morning, December 10th, at the Bard Breakfast – the annual gathering organized by the New York Preservation Archive Project. Tickets are still available – click here for more information.

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If you run right over to Parsons New School of Design, at No. 6 East 16th Street; tell the security guard you’ve come to see the student projects exhibit; and […]

It’s hard to remember that Fifth Avenue, opposite Central Park, was once lined entirely by the faux chateaux of New York’s wealthy. Most of those buildings have long since given […]