Archive of Public Testimony
The Victorian Society New York actively promotes preservation of the incomparable wealth of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historic districts, individual landmarks, interiors and civic art in the New York City area. Over the past five decades, the Victorian Society New York has delivered testimony on many occasions at NYC Landmarks Preservation Committee Public Hearings, the NYC Public Design Commission and other agencies.
Please see below for a selection of recent testimony presented during public hearings and letters drafted in response to preservation policy changes and current events. VSNY will be adding to this page soon to make the full archive of past testimony available.
Victorian Society Testimony for August 6, 2024: 115 Fifth Avenue (aka 881-887 Broadway) (LPC-24-10084); 253 West 125th Street – Apollo Theater (LPC-24-10008); 1197 Clove Road – John King Vanderbilt House (LPC-21-05596); 64 and 66 Horatio Street (LPC-24-02924)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for July 30, 2024: Central Park – Harlem Meer – Scenic Landmark (LPC-24-11791); 44 Jane Street (LPC-24-08313); 829 Park Avenue (LPC-24-10852); 119 Fifth Avenue (LPC-24-08557); 99 Clinton Street, aka 152-156 Remsen Street (LPC-24-05234); 229 Waverly Avenue (LPC-24-06569)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for July 16, 2024: 176 Remsen Street (aka 172-178 Remsen) – Brooklyn Union Gas Company Building – Individual Landmark (LPC-24-10800); 81-11 Roosevelt Avenue (LPC-24-09220); 402 West Broadway (LPC-24-09280); 436 West 20th Street (LPC-24-05901); 210 East 62nd Street (LPC-19-21568); 115 Fifth Avenue (aka 881-887 Broadway)( LPC-24-10084); 119 Fifth Avenue (LPC-24-08557)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for July 9, 2024: 69 West 9th Street (aka 420 Sixth Avenue) (LPC-24-05299); 48 1/2 East 7th Street (LPC-24-09918)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for June 25, 2024: 219 East 5th Street (LPC-24-08735); 374 Lexington Avenue – Chanin Building (LPC-24-10303); 243 East 48th Street (LPC-24-04790); 256 West 75th Street (LPC-24-08232); 345 Hoyt Street (LPC-24-01096)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for June 18, 2024: 253 West 125th Street – Apollo Theater (LPC-24-10008); 116 Pierrepont Street (LPC-24-07987); 134 Gates Avenue (LPC-24-08512); 69 Greene Avenue (LPC-24-09101); 177 Water Street (LPC-24-08276); 512 Broadway (LPC-24-06584); 550 Broadway (LPC-24-04376); 415-417 West 22nd Street (LPC-24-05576)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for June 11, 2024: Proposed Willoughby-Hart Historic District, Brooklyn (LP-2683); 402 West 20th Street (LPC-24-08677); Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Riverside (LPC-24-10137)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for June 4: 2024: 276 West 11th Street (LPC-24-04987); 346 Broadway (aka 108 Leonard Street, 50 Lafayette Street) – Former New York Life Insurance Company Building (LPC-24-09650); Governors Island – Building 140 (LPC-24-07729); 109 West Broadway (LPC-24-09233); 44 West 8th Street (LPC-24-09252)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for May 21, 2024: 218 Lincoln Place (LPC-24-06516); 767 Washington Street (LPC-24-05316); 150 West 11th Street (LPC-24-05325); 175 Fifth Avenue – Flatiron Building (LPC-24-08057 and LPC-24-08093); 49 East 67th Street (LPC-24-09247); 817 Fifth Avenue (LPC-24-02524)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for May 14, 2024: Proposed rule for regulation of bus shelters; 431 7th Avenue (LPC-23-10177); 110 South Street (LPC-24-06263); 230 Central Park West (LPC-24-06259)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for May 7, 2024: 1100 Albemarle Road (LPC-24-08873); 301 Canal, 419-421 Broadway, and 423 Broadway (LPC-24-08399); 40 Wooster Street (LPC-24-05697); 41 East 74th Street (LPC-24-05668); 1115 Fifth Avenue (LPC-24-07956)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for April 16, 2024: 712 Fifth Avenue (aka 712-716 Fifth Avenue) (LPC 24-07069 and 24-07310); City Hall Park Bicycle Repair Shop and Charging Station (LPC-24-06401)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for April 9, 2024: 214, 216, 218, 222, 228, and 230 Court Street (LPC-24-00926, 24-04539, 24-04537, 24-04553, 24-00269, 24-07619); 276 West 11th Street (LPC-24-04987); 19 Circle Road (LPC-24-05494)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for March 26, 2024: 375 West Broadway (LPC-24-06747); 138 Prince Street (LPC-24-06015); 1 East 70th Street ( LPC-24-07367)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for March 19, 2024: 420 Amsterdam Avenue (LPC-24-03142); Prospect Park Boathouse (LPC-24-07178); 119 Pierrepont Street (LPC-24-06643); 712 Fifth Avenue (LPC-24-07069 and LPC-24-07310 ); 331-339 Columbus Avenue (LPC-24-04307); 19 Circle Road (LPC-24-05494)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for March 5, 2024: 346 Broadway, aka 108 Leonard Street, 46 Lafayette Street (LPC-23-08657); 83 and 85 Chambers Street, aka 65 and 67 Reade Street (LPC-22-09644 and LPC-22-09645); 272-276 Macon Street, aka 161-165 MacDonough Street (LPC-24-05395); 311 7th Avenue (LPC-24-00186).
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for February 27, 2024: 885 Manhattan Avenue (LPC-24-02545); 252 Cumberland Street (LPC-24-04312); 233 Wyckoff Street (LPC-24-05444); 487 Henry Street (LPC-24-04607); 28 Prospect Park West (LPC-24-04640); 459 West Broadway (LPC-22-07889); 828-850 Madison Avenue (LPC-24-06416); 1295 Madison Avenue (LPC-24-06148); 38-47 Douglaston Parkway (LPC-23-11199)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for February 13, 2024: 96 Macon Street (LPC-23-05203); 315 Greenwich Street (LPC-24-01920); 57-59 Christopher Street (LPC-24-04610); 101-111 West 10th Street (LPC-23-11959); 924 Broadway (LPC-24-05350); 218 West 57th Street – Society House of the American Society of Civil Engineers Individual Landmark (LPC-24-06030); 420 Amsterdam Avenue (LPC-24-03142); Riverside Park – Dinosaur Playground (LPC-24-05534)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for January 30, 2024: 39 Grace Court (LPC-24-02285); Governors Island – Buildings 111, 112 and 114 (LPC-24-05844); 121 Waverly Place (LPC-24-01815); 180 Waverly Place (LPC-24-02998); 3 Great Jones Street (LPC-24-03888); 675 Hudson Street (LPC-24-04256); 670 Broadway (LPC-24-00836)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for January 23, 2024: 280 Washington Avenue (LPC-23-07712); 196 Wycoff Street (LPC-24-03192) ; 105 Chambers Street (LPC-23-11234); 307-309 6th Avenue (LPC-24-05496); 935 Park Avenue (LPC-23-11643)
Combined Victorian Society Testimony for January 9, 2024: Central Park W. 85th Street Playground (LPC-24-04565); 675 Hudson Street (LPC-24-04256); 4 Grove Street (LPC-23-12139); 92 Horatio Street (LPC-23-09458); 608 Fifth Avenue – Goelet Building (LPC-24-04737); 17 Fillmore Place (LPC-24-03097); 313 Jefferson Avenue (LPC-24-04315)
Combined Testimony for December 19, 2023: 212 Columbia Heights (LPC-23-11110); 442 Waverly Avenue (LPC-24-02517); 168 Midwood Street (LPC-24-04099); 160 & 162 Fifth Avenue (LPC-24-04320 and LPC-24-04321); 1030 Amsterdam Avenue (LPC-23-10724); 105 Chambers Street (LPC-23-11234)
December 12, 2023: 1197 Clove Road – John King Vanderbilt House (LPC-21-05596); 588 Broadway (LPC-24-01184); 34 Perry Street (LPC-24-03735); 302 West 13th Street (LPC-24-03020); 854 Fifth Avenue (LPC-24-02994)
November 28, 2023 – 366 Atlantic Avenue (LPC-23-03811), 74 Wellington Court (LPC-23-08409), 80 Irving Place (LPC-23-11282), 320 West 77th Street (LPC-23-00917), Riverside Park-Dinosaur Playground (LPC-24-03689)
October 31, 2023 – 398 Pacific Street (LPC-22-08821)
May 2, 2023 – 329 Greenwich Street (LPC-22-05759); 120 Broadway (LPC-23-08020); 1260 Broadway, Hotel Martinique (LPC-23-07180); 200 Convent Avenue, CUNY North Campus (LPC-23-09159)
April 25, 2023 – (Former) Colored School No. 4, 128 West 17th Street (LP-2659); 118 North 11th Street, Hecla Iron Works Building (LPC-23-06201); 345 Decatur Street (LPC-22-07227)
April 13, 2021 Testimony for 160 Maujer St., Brooklyn, Williamsburg Houses landscape; Fort Greene Park Spanish Memorial; 120 Underhill Avenue, Prospect Heights Historic District.
March 23, 2021 Testimony for 274 Malcolm X Blvd, Bedford Stuyvesant-Expanded Stuyvesant Heights Historic District; 31 Union Square West, the Bank of the Metropolis Individual Landmark; 2101 Broadway, the Ansonia Hotel Individual Landmark.
March 16, 2021 Testimony for 45 West 85th Street, Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District.
March 9, 2021 Testimony for Building B, 1000 Richmond Terrace, S.I., Individual Landmark, Sailors’ Snug Harbor; 176 Washington Park, Fort Greene Historic District; 14-16 Fifth Avenue, Greenwich Village Historic District.
February 23, 2021 Testimony for 1118 Lorimer St., Greenpoint Historic District; 410-12 Waverly Ave, Clinton Hill Historic District; 66 West 9th Street, Greenwich Village Historic District; 24 East 10th Street, Greenwich Village Historic District; 334 West 12th Street, Greenwich Village Historic District; 71-105 East 42nd Street, Grand Central Terminal Individual Landmark.
February 9, 2021 – Testimony for 473 9th Street – Park Slope Historic District, 95 Marginal Street – South Street Seaport, 536-538 Broadway – SoHo, 321 East 6th Street, 330 West 42nd Street – McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Building, and 1000 Fifth Avenue – Metropolitan Museum of Art
February 2, 2021 – Testimony for 76, 78, and 80 West 82nd Street, 68th Avenue – Central Ridgewood Historic District, Queens, 294 Albany Avenue – Crown Heights North III Historic District, 152 Stratford Road – Prospect Lefferts Gardens, 17 Battery Place – The Whitehall Building, 61 7th Avenue South, and 24 East 10th Street
January 19, 2021 – Testimony for the Lescaze House, 160 Maujer Street, 216 Dean Street, 424 7th Avenue, 49 Grove Street, 400 West 57th Street, 111 Fifth Avenue, 122 Fifth Avenue, and 110 West 88th Street
January 12, 2021 – Testimony for 100 Hudson Street, 89 South Street, 250 Water Street, 12-16 Eldridge Street – Eldridge Street Synagogue, 18-20 East 50th Street – Hampton Shops Building
December 8, 2020 – Testimony for 39 Chauncey Street Brooklyn, 519 2nd Street Brooklyn, Green-Wood Cemetery Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance and Chapel, Trinity Church and Graveyard, 108th Street – Riverside – West End Historic District Extension II, 18 West 75th Street, 2211 Broadway – The Apthorp Apartments
October 2020 – Testimony for the Flatiron Building and the Brooklyn Methodist Episcopal Church Home
July 2020 – Testimony Concerning Proposed NYC 5G Infrastructure
June 2020 – Letter to LPC to express concerns about the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s process for review of applications for work in designated scenic landmarks.
May 2020 – Testimony for 49-51 Chambers St
May 2020 – Manida Street Historic District
September 2019 – Demarest Building
August 2019 – Greenwich Village and the East Village below Union Square
May 2019 – LGBT Sites
March 2019 – First Hungarian Church
