The parks department is refunding camping reservation fees for 12 recreation areas on the list.
Tue 2 Mar 2010
Filed under: Camps and Camping, Parks and Other Recreation Areas, Historic Buildings and Sites, New York State — @ 3:35 am
Thu 25 Feb 2010
Filed under: Slavery, African Burial Ground (NYC), African Burial Ground Visitor Center, Monuments and Memorials, Blacks, Historic Buildings and Sites, Art, Cemeteries, Manhattan (NYC) — @ 11:31 pm
The African Burial Ground Visitor Center offers the first large-scale traces of black American experience in the New York region.
Thu 4 Feb 2010
Filed under: Roofs, Lincoln Center Theater, Hardy, Hugh, Design, Architecture, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Theater, Historic Buildings and Sites — @ 2:08 am
A new black box theater, designed by Hugh Hardy, will be perched on the roof of the Beaumont Theater with a terrace overlooking Lincoln Center.
Wed 3 Feb 2010
The ACE Theatrical Group has agreed to restore the once-majestic Loew’s Kings Theater in Brooklyn, which opened in 1929.
Sat 30 Jan 2010
Filed under: Antiques, Revolutionary War, American (1775-83), Brooklyn (NYC), Historic Buildings and Sites — @ 12:11 am
The Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead, where Annette and Stuart Mont live, is crammed with antiques. A 1766 Dutch farmhouse in Brooklyn that is crammed with antiques is home to a couple who revere the past.
Thu 21 Jan 2010
Filed under: Immigration and Emigration, Staten Island (NYC), Historic Buildings and Sites, Restaurants — @ 10:53 pm
A visit to Tompkinsville, on the north shore of Staten Island, promises indulgences for the eyes and the stomach. And there’s an attraction that reminds one local of being in small-town Italy.
Sat 16 Jan 2010
Weary of the battle over St. Paul’s School and daunted by maintenance costs, Garden City residents supported a proposal to demolish it.A tragic end may await St. Paul’s School, a 130-year-old behemoth in Garden City, N.Y. In a village with no landmark ordinances, the building has little protection.
Wed 30 Dec 2009
Filed under: Palaces and Castles, Bannerman Castle Trust, Bannerman, Frank VI, Hudson River, Historic Buildings and Sites — @ 3:45 am
Last Saturday night, parts of a tower and a wall of Bannerman’s Castle fell to the ground, spurring concern over how to stop the deterioration of the century-old Hudson River landmark.
Wed 23 Dec 2009
The new owner was unable to rent the building as office space, and is now looking at alternate uses — including a bowling alley.
Thu 17 Dec 2009
Filed under: Looting, Xi, Xiang, China, Museums, Art, Newspapers, Historic Buildings and Sites — @ 1:31 pm
A delegation scoured the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week for objects looted in 1860 from a palace in Beijing.