PLNYS in the news

“Brutalist library by Walter Netsch, and other buildings, are under threat in Aurora, New York, after Wells College’s recent closure,” The Architect’s Newspaper | November 6, 2024

“Preservation League seeks nominations for 2025-2026 Seven to Save,” The Daily Star | October 26, 2024

“Work begins on saving Watertown’s historic AME Zion Church,” Watertown Daily Times | October 2, 2024

“Preservation League Announces Call for Nominations for Seven to Save Program,” All Otsego | September 20, 2024

2024 Excellence Award Coverage

“How Daniel Kanter Blogged About Rehabbing Houses and Then Learned How,” Upstate House | September 2024

“Town Hosts Gravestone Cleaning Workshop at Monfort Cemetery,” Patch | August 26, 2024

2024 Preserve New York Grant Coverage

2024 Preservation Opportunity Fund Coverage

“Hudson Valley’s Most Interesting Place to Get a Drink Reopens,” 94.3 Lite FM | June 5, 2024

“Ft. Ti highlights important preservation projects this month,” Sun Community News | May 14, 2024

“New York's Historic Barn Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program Incentivizes Restorations,” Lancaster Farming | April 12, 2024

“State agency may weigh in on Uptown Kingston Pike Plan canopies’ removal plan,” Daily Freeman | April 3, 2024

“50th anniversary of Historic Albany Foundation, Preservation League of New York celebrated in Albany,” WAMC | March 28, 2024

Basilica Hudson founders receive statewide award from the Preservation League of New York State

“New grant opportunity available for nonprofits in New York,” NNY360 | February 29, 2024

“Historic Watertown church awarded $100K for repairs,” WWNY TV | January 29, 2024

2023 Technical Assistance Grant Coverage

Lighthouse group gets $500K state grant for Hudson-Athens Lighthouse repairs,” Hudson Valley 360 | November 21, 2023

“The Heldeberg Workshop digs into the human history of its ‘magical’ land,” The Altamont Enterprise | November 17, 2023

2023 Excellence in Historic Preservation Awards Coverage

“Moving a Masterpiece to La Guardia Is a High-Wire Act,” The New York Times | October 13, 2023

“It's the 10th year of the Kirkus Prize. Meet the winners of a top literary award,” NPR | October 11, 2023

“Cleaning the clocktower: H’town council cleans trash, finds trinkets in town belfry,” Adirondack Daily Enterprise | September 30, 2023

“OSI begins work to restore historic MacNaughton Cottage,” Adirondack Almanack | September 28, 2023

“Moss-Covered Activists Protest Penn Station Neighborhood Over-Development,” Hyperallergic | September 22, 2023

“8 New Public Art Installations in NYC to See in September,” Untapped New York | September 8, 2023

“Philanthropist Joan K. Davidson remembered as a "fierce advocate" for the Hudson Valley,” WAMC | August 15, 2023

“Preserving, changing Amsterdam mansions part of city's new legacy,” The Times-Union | August 13, 2023

2023 Preserve New York Coverage

“Community rallies to protect home rooted in medical history,” Long Island Herald | June 26, 2023

“Board Hears Update On Lakewood Village Hall Nomination,” The Post-Journal | June 19, 2023

“Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society works to save, preserve the structure,” WAMC Northeast Public Radio| June 16, 2023

“Group looks to save Watertown church and its history,” WWNYTV | June 12, 2023

“Lakewood Village Hall Receives Nomination To State, National Registers,” The Post-Journal | June 10, 2023

“Kowlowitz hopes New Scotlanders will come together, raising pride and prosperity, as they apply for national historic districts,” The Altamont Enterprise | May 29, 2023

“Hudson-Athens Lighthouse needs major foundation work,” Mid Hudson News | May 26, 2023

“Hudson-Athens Lighthouse in danger of collapsing in five years,” Hudson Valley 360 | May 17, 2023

“Kingston’s stewards of history,” Hudson Valley One | May 9, 2023

Understanding and Advancing the Preservation Trades Press Coverage

“Historic Cayuga County home included in statewide preservation conference,” The Auburn Citizen | April 15, 2023

“Brooks-Park Restoration Would Be Costly but ‘Worth It’,” The East Hampton Star | March 23, 2023

“Renaissance Corporation To Host Historic Tax Credit Workshop,” The Post-Journal | February 13, 2023

“Geffen Hall: The Wrong Note,” The Hudson Review | January 26, 2023

“Willard State Hospital, John Wenrich Cabin among Landmark Society’s Five to Revive,” FingerLakes1.com | January 26, 2023

2022 Technical Assistance Grant Coverage

“Native Groups Decry Governor Hochul’s Refusal to Protect Burial Sites,” Hyperallergic | January 4, 2023

“Revisiting Brooks-Park Preservation,” The East Hampton Star | December 22, 2022

“East Hampton Cemetery Nominated for State & National Registers of Historic Places,” Dan’s Papers | December 13, 2022

“Opera House earns preservation award,” The Daily News | December 3, 2022

“Montgomery County to support stabilization of historic Broodmare Barn,” The Daily Gazette | December 3, 2022

“City Receives Grant For Theatre Restoration,” AllOtsego.com | December 2, 2022

“Art’s Café receives 2022 Excellence in Historic Preservation award,” Springville Journal | November 24, 2022

“Fort Ticonderoga receives award: Pell Pavilion restoration honored,” The Sun | November 16, 2022

“Grant funding helps make Howland Stone Store Museum an award winner,” Finger Lakes 1 | November 14, 2022

“Gowanda, Springville attractions honored for preservation reuse,” The Buffalo News | November 12, 2022

“Howland Stone Store Museum Wins Excellence in Historic Preservation Award,” Finger Lakes Daily News | November 11, 2022

“Cayuga County museum receives historic preservation award,” The Auburn Citizen | November 11, 2022

“Rochester recognized in the Preservation League of NYS annual awards,” RochesterFirst.com | November 8, 2022

“The Little Theatre recognized for preservation efforts with statewide award,” WXXI News | November 8, 2022

“UR stops plan for facility near Genesee Valley Park as advocates aim to retain 'scenic quality',” Democrat & Chronicle | November 3, 2022

“Lakewood Village Hall Officially Eligible For Historic Preservation,” The Post-Journal | October 31, 2022

“Earlville Opera House Project Gets Preservation League Grant,” The Central New York Business Journal | October 21, 2022

“Preservation League of NYS Awards Earlville Opera House Grant Funding,” The Central New York Business Journal | October 12, 2022

“EOH Receives $20,000 Grant Funding,” The Evening Sun | October 10, 2022

“Lox of Love for Zabar’s,” The Spirit | September 9, 2022

“The Willard Question: What’s to be done with this historic property?,” Finger Lakes 1 | September 6, 2022

“Brooks-Park Property: A ‘Cathedral’ in Crisis,” The East Hampton Star | August 4, 2022

2022 Preserve New York Coverage

2022-2023 Seven to Save Coverage

“Peek Inside the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport, a Jet Age Masterpiece,” Untapped New York | May 25, 2022

“Go Inside the Glenwood Power Plant in Yonkers,” Untapped New York | May 18, 2022

“Fresh Pond Road-Myrtle Avenue Designated Historic District,” Queens Gazette | March 10, 2022

“Myrtle, Fresh Pond shops are the tops: 425 commercial buildings added to state, national historic registers,” Queens Chronicle | March 10, 2022

“Abandoned power house in Amsterdam New York is off limits! Want to see inside?,” 104.5 The Team | March 7, 2022

“Historic preservation ‘by consensus rather than conflict,’” Adirondack Explorer | February 28, 2022

“Webinar Will Explore Fight to Save, Resurrect the Pyrrhus Concer Homestead,” Behind the Hedges | February 25, 2022

“OUR VIEW: ‘Seven to Save’ can help boost Niagara,” Lockport Union-Sun & Journal | February 3, 2022

Preservationists look for 'Seven to Save': Preservation coalition seeks nominees; past successes included NACC, Customs House,” Niagara Gazette | January 29, 2022

“Marcel Breuer's first binuclear house has been demolished in Long Island,” Archinect | January 26, 2022

2021 Technical Assistance Grants

“In the News: Soho/Noho rezoning passes the City Council,” Tribeca Citizen | December 30, 2021

“Parrott Hall rehabilitation work begins,” Finger Lakes Times | December 27, 2021

“A boost for beloved barns,” Hudson Valley One | December 12, 2021

2021 Excellence in Historic Preservation Awards

“'Wicked Herkimer County' book recalls crimes and will help fund work on 1834 Jail,” Observer-Dispatch | September 7, 2021

“Preservation for Community Benefit,” Sanctuary for Independent Media | August 31, 2021

“‘You can’t preserve what you don’t know’ says Kowlowitz,” The Altamont Enterprise | August 31, 2021

“County Cathedrals,” 585 Magazine| August 25, 2021

“The Editorial Board: Enhanced Tax Credit Benefits Buffalo by Promoting Projects in Smaller Buildings,” Buffalo News | August 25, 2021

“Expansion of state historic tax credit could aid smaller rehab projects,” Buffalo News | August 11, 2021

2021 Preserve New York Grant Announcement

“Friends of Parrott Hall works diligently at bringing the building back to its former glory,” FingerLakes1.com | August 14, 2021

“Tax credit to preserve historic barns,” Hudson Valley 360 | July 24, 2021

“Parrott Hall rehabilitation project moving ahead,” Finger Lakes Times| July 12, 2021

“Bent's Opera House reopening next week in Medina,” Lockport Union-Sun & Journal | June 14, 2021

“NYS Canal System benefits flow far and wide” (Letter to the Editor), Syracuse.com | May 17, 2021

“Assembly abandons canal bill after preservationists weigh in,” Buffalo News | March 6, 2021

“Three ADK orgs receive historic preservation grants,” Adirondack Almanac | April 20, 2020

“Historic preservation grants include Trudeau home/office in Saranac Lake,” Adirondack Daily Enterprise | April 8, 2020

“Preservation League Spotlights New York's 'Seven To Save',” WAMC Northeast Public Radio | February 27, 2020

“SANS Named One of ‘Seven to Save’ By Preservation Society,” SagHarborExpress.com | February 12, 2020

“Cornerstones: Historic Albany building has kept its character,” Times Union | February 6, 2020

“Lincoln Center's Renovation Reignites A Battle To Save A Dismantled Sculpture,” Gothamist | February 6, 2020

“African American Burial Ground Where Woman in the Iron Coffin Was Found Under Threat,” Untapped New York | March 9, 2020

“Stakeholders wary of Cuomo's plans to 'reimagine' state's canal system,” Buffalo News | August 12, 2019

“Funding sought to restore Schoharie aqueduct,” The Daily Gazaette | August 7, 2019

“Award-winning work,” WAG Magazine | May 6, 2019

“Erie Canal advocates seek extension of waterway's new lease on life,” Times Union | May 3, 2019

“‘This was a building that really needed to be saved’,” Oswego County News Now | April 10, 2019

“NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project Receives a 2019 Excellence in Preservation Award,” Broadway World | April 10, 2019

“For Sale: An Abandoned, Decaying Fort on a Private Island,” Atlas Obscura | April 8, 2019

“State plans to extend major parks improvement project another four years,” Newsday | February 1, 2019

“Historic state tug could be made seaworthy for another century,” Times Union | November 23, 2018

“Preservation League wants to keep the historic tugboat Urger on canal waters,” Times Union | August 2, 2018

“Preservation Group Releases Annual 'Seven To Save' List,” WAMC Northeast Public Radio | April 10, 2018

“A Call For Changes To NYS Historic Tax Credits,” WAMC Northeast Public Radio | February 28, 2018

“South Setauket awaits decision on push for historic designation,” Newsday | June 25, 2017

“Statewide historic preservation group wades into Adirondack train-trail fight,” North Country Public Radio | March 3, 2016

“Preservation group designates American Indian and African-American site in Setauket as historic,” Newsday | February 26, 2014

“Downtown Syracuse loses eligibility for state historic preservation tax credit - for now,” The Post-Standard | June 16, 2013

recommended reading

“Elegy for the Day Peckinpaugh,” Times Union | November 20, 2024

“Building deconstruction, reuse would benefit NYS jobs, climate,” Cornell Chronicle | October 3, 2024

“Three new designer-led initiatives are making circular economies a reality,” The Architect’s Newspaper | September 20, 2024

“Everybody Must Get ’Stoned: Keeping up appearances in brownstone Brooklyn,” New York Review of Architecture | September 16, 2024

“The Best NYC Books of All Time,” Untapped New York | August 12, 2024

“Appetite for Deconstruction,” Bloomberg Citylab | May 15, 2024

“This Old, Old House: Would You Buy a 1702 Fixer-Upper?,” The New York Times | May 12, 2024

“Six galleries turning a school in upstate New York into a collective art space,” The Art Newspaper | May 10, 2024

“America’s appetite for McMansions is devouring modern architecture,” Washington Post | May 1, 2024

“Dumber than the Romans: Our built heritage should not become fossils enshrined in amber, but fertile, motley canvases on which to build anew,” New York Review of Architecture | April 18, 2024

“Null and Trapezoid: Marcel Breuer’s museum on Madison opened our eyes to the sublime. Let’s not look away now,” New York Review of Architecture | April 12, 2024

“How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation,” Wall Street Journal | April 1, 2024

“What’s Hidden in Woodlawn’s Mausoleums? Extraordinary Stained Glass.” New York Times | March 3, 2024

“How to Save Corporate Modernist Architecture,” Bloomberg CityLab | January 27, 2023

“New Yorkers Mourn the Loss of 60 Wall Street Atrium with a Funeral Procession Through Manhattan,” Untapped New York | January 26, 2023

“No More Corn in Egypt,” New York Review of Architecture | November 18, 2023

“Alexandra Lange, Robert A.M. Stern, Docomomo, and Preservation Futures on the fate of 60 Wall Street’s lobby,” The Architect’s Newspaper | August 31, 2023

“Even in Death Black Americans Have Been Denied the Right to Rest in Peace,” The New York Times | February 15, 2023

“Federal Agency Rejects Developer’s Report That Massive Grain Elevator Won’t Harm Black Heritage Sites,” ProPublica | February 8, 2023

“A Secret Society Tied to the Underground Railroad Fights to Save Its Home,” The New York Times | December 20, 2022

“Julius’ Bar designated as NYC landmark in unanimous vote,” GayCityNews.com | December 6, 2022

“This housing project cemented segregation in Buffalo. Now, Black activists want to save it,” Democrat & Chronicle | November 21, 2022

“Greenwich Village, Storied Home of Bohemia and Gay History,” The New York Times | November 21, 2022

“Native tribes urge Hochul to sign burial protection, Montaukett bills,” Newsday | November 17, 2022

“A Hamptons Property Fight Over a Black Whaler’s Homestead,” The New York Times | November 1, 2022

“Another Voice: Olmsted's vision can help lead Buffalo forward,” The Buffalo News | September 9, 2022

“‘They’re Destroying an Artists’ Block’: A furrier, a circus school, and local residents on the Penn Station redevelopment plan,” Curbed | August 10, 2022

“Ma’s House: An Artist Fulfills His Grandmother’s Dying Wish,” New York Times | May 13, 2022

“How Preservationists Are Losing the Fight Against Luxury Real Estate,” New York Times | May 12, 2022

“Can a New Art Space Refresh a Tired Downtown?,” New York Times | April 26, 2022

Eyesore or Monument? Preservationists Fight to Save a Grain Elevator in Buffalo,” New York Times | January 22, 2022

“Why One Couple Took a Chance on a Decrepit Building in Newburgh, New York,” Preservation Magazine | Fall 2021

“The Colorful Past and Bright Future of Azurest South, Home of a Pioneering Black Architect,” Preservation Magazine | Jul 14, 2021

“In Vienna, public housing is affordable and desirable,” Marketplace | May 3, 2021

“A push to save landmarks of the ‘Great Migration’ — and better understand today’s racial inequities,” Washington Post | March 13, 2021

“Brent Leggs: How Can Seeing Black History As American History Begin To Make Amends?,” NPR | February 26, 2021

“A Victorian home was just moved in SF. Here's how it looked,” SFGate | February 22, 2021

“Apartment Progress: Bedside Lamps and Stewardship,” Reading My Tea Leaves | February 10, 2021

“Forgotten 20th-Century Photography Studio Found in New York Attic,” Smithsonian Magazine | February 5, 2021

“On Abolitionist Place 227 Duffield Street is Finally Landmarked,” Untapped New York | February 3, 2021

“Spotlight on Old Houses,” New York Times | January 29, 2021

“What Does History Smell Like?,” New York Times | December 4, 2020

“Meet the New York State Parks Interpreter Who Cooks to Uncover the Past,” Atlas Obscura | May 26, 2020

“New York City's most iconic buildings, mapped,” Curbed New York | August 5, 2019

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Adaptive Reuse,” Chronogram | August 1, 2019

“Seneca Lake Surrenders its Watery Secrets,” NY State Parks & Historic Sites Blog | July 30, 2019

“Proposed historic district would make more than 280 Albany buildings eligible for tax breaks,” Albany Business Review | July 30, 2019

“$50M in estate restorations complete at Darwin Martin House,” WBFO | July 22, 2019

“‘We Cannot Save Everything’: A Historic Neighborhood Confronts Rising Seas,” The New York Times | July 8, 2019

“Frank Lloyd Wright buildings named UNESCO World Heritage sites,” Curbed | July 7, 2019

“Enslaved People Lived Here. These Museums Want You to Know,” The New York Times | June 26, 2019

“Stonewall's impact, 50 years after the riots: 'It's much more than a bar',” amNewYork | June 24, 2019

“This Architect's "Perfect Building" Takes Flight Once Again,” The National Trust for Historic Preservation Blog | June 18, 2019

“NYC Landmarks Six Sites Associated With Gay Rights Movement,” Gothamist | June 18, 2019

“In the Hudson Valley, a Drive Back in Time,” The New York Times | June 17, 2019

“Push to preserve Sag Harbor's historic African American district,” Newsday | June 17, 2019

“Kingston Land Trust buys 19th-century African burial ground,” Daily Freeman | May 30, 2019

“How the New York State Commercial Rehabilitation Tax Credit (NYSHTC) spurred the rebirth of Buffalo development,” Buffalo Rising | May 23, 2019

“These Long Island homes came from a kit,” Newsday | May 21, 2019

“Climate Change Poses a Threat to Cultural Heritage,” Scientific American | May 16, 2019

“A Gay Theater and James Baldwin’s N.Y. Apartment May Get Landmark Protection,” The New York Times | May 15, 2019

“The TWA Hotel, a spectacular midcentury time capsule, finally opens,” Curbed New York | May 15, 2019

“One man's quest to save a Shaker farm,” Times Union | April 29, 2019

“10 Western New York Treasures To Explore,” Rochester Brainery | March 25, 2019

“This Architecture Historian Wants You to Respect Queens,” City Lab | February 4, 2019

“Erie Canal tugboats push on through two centuries of change,” Professional Mariner | February 18, 2018

“Now and Then,” Harper’s Magazine | September 2017

“City of Women,” The New Yorker | October 2016

“Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom,” Smithsonian Magazine | September 2016