Topic: Greenwich Village Society For Historic Preservation

Protecting Greenwich Village

Preservation Magazine - 838 days ago
Because much of New York's Greenwich Village stands outside the Greenwich Village Historic District, developers continue to level buildings on unprotected blocks. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation first asked the commission to change the district's boundaries in 2002 ...

What Do a 19th-Century Brownstone and a Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Have in Common?

Freakonomics - 1005 days ago
In a column we wrote a while back about the unintended consequences of well-meaning legislation, we highlighted one of the failures of the Endangered Species Act: in the lag time between when an animal's habitat is announced to be under consideration ...

Village Activists Decry Plans for Taller Trump SoHo

The New York Observer - 1242 days ago
Greenwich Village may be notoriously prickly about new development, but will Donald Trump's provocations never end?Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and ardent Trump SoHo opponent, has just sent out a plea for like-minded ...