Designated Landmarks

An interesting preservation article appeared in Newsday Dec. 5, 2004 about new penalties for demolition, up to and including the total value, passed on Long Island and proposed for New York City. Previously, people could avoid monetary penalties that haven't been changed in decades and an unscrupulous developer could just pay the fine out of court and move on. An interesting article and problem. Maybe this would be one: Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space Back in the early 1980's a theater named after a famous actress was found to be "architecturally insignificant" though valued by the community leading to protesters in the street and others angry in the community. It was demolished for a larger theater in NYC. (Strange I had to enter this last bit twice, the first somewhat different, a hack? It "published"?)