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Several elected officials, including State Senator Brad Hoylman and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, are calling on the Landmarks Preservation Commission to expand the preserved district by three blocks

Manhattan preservationists are calling on the city to expand the existing Madison Square North Historic District. Several elected officials, including State Senator Brad Hoylman and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, are calling on the Landmarks Preservation Commission to expand the preserved district by three blocks. The historic district currently covers from Madison Avenue to Sixth Avenue and from 25th Street to 29th Street. Preservationists would like to see the protection extended up to 32nd Street, and are pushing for buildings up to 34th Street to be given landmark status.

As reported by Curbed NY, the initiative follows a failed effort to preserve the neighborhood’s 116-year-old Nomad building at 316 Fifth Avenue. Developer Cottonwood Management filed plans to replace the building with a 40-story condominium tower featuring only 27 apartments. Back in July, Senator Hoylman and State Senator Liz Krueger sent a letter to the Landmarks Preservation Commission entreating for the Kaskel & Kaskel building to be saved from demolition. The letter had received 13,000 signatures in support from local residents. The LPC replied that the building did not merit individual landmark status. 

Elected officials are now taking a different route in trying to preserve the surrounding neighborhood, which if successful will also save other historic buildings in the area from a similar fate. “By refusing to protect the Kaskel & Kaskel building on Fifth Avenue, one of the most iconic streets in the world, the LPC has abdicated its responsibility to preserve New York’s architectural history,” said State Senator Brad Hoylman. “It is urgent that the LPC take swift action to rectify its mistake by expanding the Madison Square North Historic District to protect the remainder of the buildings in this historic neighborhood.” Among other officials, congress member Carolyn Maloney, and City Council member Dan Garodnick, joined Hoylman and Brewer in the new letter to the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

By Ellen Cans

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