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Year-End Review of Landmarking Shows Designations Continue to Lag Significantly Under
Adams

January 27, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC History / Gotham Buzz NYC.

Earlier this year, Village Preservation released a first-of-its-kind report cataloging all landmark designations over the course of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission’s (LPC) existence since 1965, and analyzing the differences in activity based upon Mayoral administration and changes in law and policy. Since then, we’ve updated the yearly chronological compendium of all landmarks designations, and have committed to continue doing so moving forward, to allow the public to see what the LPC is (or is not) doing in context of its work over the years. Toward that end, we’ve taken a look at the LPC’s designations for 2024:

The LPC made nine designations in 2024, which is a very slight increase from the extremely sluggish previous pace under Mayor Adams, but remains less than 1/3 the rate of designations under prior Mayors. See first chart above.

The LPC designated 146 buildings in 2024 (a designation may include historic districts, containing multiple buildings), which is also a slight uptick from the prior Adams years, but remains an almost 80% reduction in the number of buildings designated yearly as compared to prior Mayors. See second chart at right.

The LPC designated just one historic district in 2024 (by far the majority of sites landmarked in NYC are designated via historic districts), which is a significant reduction from the already meager rate of historic district designations under the Adams administration, and a 63% reduction from the annual average under prior Mayors. See third chart at right.

The one historic district designated in 2024 was significantly larger than those previously designated under Adams. But even this one district was still about 40% smaller than those designated on average under prior Mayors, and the overall average size of designated historic districts under the Adams Administration remained less than 1/3 the size of those designated by prior Mayors. See fourth and final chart below.

Contributed Report by Andrew Berman of the Village Preservation Society
Received December 20, 2024
Posted January 27, 2025
https://www.villagepreservation.org

* Black History Month in NYC

This is a Look at Some of the Black History Events We've Covered Over the Years

February 17, 2023 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / Gotham Buzz NYC/ 471.

NYC Weather. The temperature high hit 61 degrees on Monday, and will fall to the mid to high 40's for the rest of the week. The temperature lows will range from the mid 30's to the low 40's until Friday, when the temperature drops into the mid 20's. The winds will range from 5 - 10 mph until Friday, when we'll experience a gusty 15 - 20 mph. The humidity will range between 60% - 70% through the week, before dropping to 40% on Friday. Less than a quarter inch of rain is expected on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

The image at right is of Langston Hughes, a writer in the 1920's and 1930's of the Harlem Renaissance. It seems like African Americans are continuing the process of asserting their influence in American culture, a process that began going mainstream in the 1920's / 1930's.

Highlighting Black History Month in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens & Staten Island NYC with Reports about African American History and Culture

We've covered a number of interesting theatrical performances and art exhibits exploring African American history and the African American experience in the five boroughs over the years. Some of them feature the African American experience front and center, while others include or reference the African American experience. This is a compendium of most of them, with links to the full stories. Think of this as a work in progress as it is far from complete, and in some measure, reflects how long each of our web magazines has been open / covering events in each of the boroughs. At this time I have not included many of the black and brown events reflecting immigrants' cultures, vis a vis the African American cultural experience.

• CLICK here for our report on the Black history month and African American history in NYC - prior reporting recap / summary.

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Photos & Video of & from the New Kosciuzko Bridge

September 16, 2019 / Things To Do Queens / Queens Neighborhoods / Queens Buzz NYC.

I took a ride across the new Kosciuszko Bridge yesterday evening. It was a pleasurable visual feast.

Jackson Heights & Corona Neighborhoods

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Floyd Bennett Field Returns, for Encore, as Gateway to NYC

NYC Mayor Adams & NYS Governor Hochul Receive a Lease Agreement from the U.S. Government to Lease Floyd Bennett Field

August 29, 2023 / Brooklyn Neighborhoods / NYC Issues / Brooklyn BLVD.

Just over a week ago, Governor Hochul announced that she and NYC Mayor Adams had received a lease agreement from the Biden Administration, regarding the terms for leasing the Floyd Bennett Airfield for temporary use as a migrant center. The airfield is expected to be capable of providing temporary shelter for about 2,500 immigrants.

Floyd Bennett Field is a Part of the Gateway National Recreation Area

Floyd Bennett Airfield is located at the south eastern end of Brookyn and is part of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife sanctuary, as you can see from the map at right. The airport became a part of the National Park Service in 1972 when the Gateway National Recreation Area was established to protect important natural resources within / near NYC. Sandy Hook New Jersey is also a part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, while the rest of it is located in Queens, Staten Island and Brooklyn, as previously implied.

Floyd Bennett Airfield - NYC's First Airport - Opened 1931

Four years ago, on August 31, 2019, I visited the Floyd Bennett Airfield with the intention of doing a story on it, which - until now - I had not had an opportunity to do. On that visit, I biked the airfield, took photos in both the museum and peeked through the dusty windows of the hangars and warehouses on the airfield, to photographed our recent past.

Given that the airfield is about to be transformed into a sprawling migrant center, I thought folks might want to take a look at it as it was four years ago, before it is repurposed into something quite new. Along with this story, I'll also take you through a brief history ...

... as the Floyd Bennett Airfield was NYC's first airport, predating LaGuardia which according to Wikipedia opened on December 2, 1939 and JFK which opened as New York International Airport [nicknamed Idlewild] in July 1, 1948. Floyd Bennett Airfield opened on May 23, 1931.

• CLICK here to read the rest of our report about the history of Floyd Bennett Field which was NYC's first airport and will now become an immigrant center.