Commissioner Is Removed From Landmarks Panel

I wonder if this could in some way impact the ongoing efforts to have the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium declared an historic landmark?

From The Times:

N.Y. / Region

City Room: Commissioner Is Removed From Landmarks Panel

By ROBIN POGREBIN

Published: November 3, 2010

Roberta Brandes Gratz, known for taking a hard line on protecting historic buildings, has been removed from the Landmarks Preservation Commission after seven years.

New Historic District in Queens

A block in Ridgewood, Queens, showing the sort of brick tenement and three-family construction that occupies nearly every block close to the Brooklyn border.N.Y. / Region

From The NY Times:

City Room: Commission Approves Historic District in Queens

By SHANE DIXON KAVANAUGH

Published: October 26, 2010

The commission created a 210-building district in Ridgewood and gave landmark status to four buildings in Jamaica.

I guess no decision on the Tennis Stadium yet. I would think these decisions can take a pretty long time.

Chat at 9 Tonight

Just a reminder, join us at 9 p.m. tonight for our online chat with Rego-Forest Preservation Committee Chair Michael Perlman to hear about the latest Tennis Stadium developments, and other subjects of concern to our community.

You can access the chat here:

Edge of the City Chat Room

Save The Forest Hills Tennis Stadium !!

Save the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium. Before it’s too late. So much history happened there, and

not just tennis!

Forest Hills will not be the same without it.

Do you miss this? 

Pennsylvania Station (1910-1963)

When you have to catch your train in this mess ??

Pennsylvania Station Today

New is not necessarily better.

Let’s not make the same mistake again and destroy something that is irreplaceable.