55 years and 37,000 designations later, Landmarks releases anniversary story map

Apr 17, 2020 |

Photo by Cody Nottingham on Unsplash  Just a few years after the demolition of the original Penn Station, the city founded the Landmarks Preservation Commission, in part, to make sure beautiful historic buildings were never destroyed again. When Mayor Robert Wagner signed the Landmarks Law on April 19, 1965, the commission was officially tasked with protecting sites […more]

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