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“This is a clearly terrible and dangerous idea,” said Katina Ellison, co-leader of the West 71st Street Block Association.

An empty, gutted, 117-year-old landmark church on 96th Street and Central Park West will get new life as the home of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan

The Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold a hearing next week to remove about 100 properties from consideration for landmark status, a process

The kinds of mega-towers now rising just South of Central Park could soon be coming to the Upper West Side, as developers have begun to amass property

The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved landmark status for a large swath of the Upper West Side on Tuesday, including much of the area between

After years of planning sessions, three public hearings, and hundreds of letters sent to elected officials, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has set a date to vote on whether West End Avenue -- or at least one portion of it -- should become its own historic district. The vote is set ...

May 3, 2012 Weather: Cloudy, High of 64 Degrees.

Just a little over a year go, a debate over whether to bestow landmark status upon West-Park Presbyterian Church devolved into name-calling and angry graffiti. The outside of the church on 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue was serving as an inadequate shelter for homeless people, and the congregation was holding ...