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The Fall 2024 Newsletter is Here!

Check out our Fall 2024 Newsletter! Catch up on Archive Project news and enjoy our preservation history feature articles. This issue’s articles include a review of Anthony Wood's new book about the life and work of Albert Bard, and an essay on how CHARAS/El Bohío became a New York City landmark.

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New Oral History: George Calderaro

George Calderaro is the founding director of the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project. He is a long-time communications professional and advocate for historic preservation.

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New Oral History: Shanna Sabio

Shanna Sabio is the co-founding director of GrowHouse Community Design and Development Group and a co-trustee of the Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition. Her work supports building inclusive communities through cooperative economics, public education, and reparative land ownership and stewardship.

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Congratulations to the 2024 Archival Assistance Initiative Grantees!

The time has come to announce the third cohort of Shelby White & Leon Levy Archival Assistance Initiative grantees! These funds assist historic preservation-related not-for-profit organizations across New York City in identifying and maintaining their archival resources.

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Spring 2024 Newsletter

Check out the 39th edition of the New York Preservation Archive Project's newsletter featuring the Archive Project’s latest news and programs, along with feature articles on preservation history topics and important ongoing work in the historic preservation field.

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New Oral History: Peter Pennoyer

Peter Pennoyer is the principal and founder of Peter Pennoyer Architects, a preservation architecture firm that designed the Art Deco-inspired clock in Moynihan Train Hall.

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Saving Papers

A major part of what we do here at the Archive Project centers on collecting and finding homes for key archives of preservation history. For example, in 2019, Executive Director Brad Vogel, Jeffe Fellow Josie Naron, Archive Project founder Anthony Wood, and Diego Robayo of Historic Districts Council sorted through the late Jack Taylor's papers!

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Preservation History Database

Our preservation history database is rife with the stuff that makes up the history of preservation. Detailing key battles, figures, policies, and places in New York City's preservation history, this is an incredible resource for researchers. With new entries constantly being added, this "encyclopedia" of NYC Preservation history is a must visit!

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Servant of Beauty

Servant of Beauty: Landmarks, Secret Love, and the Unimagined Life of an Unsung New York Hero is the true story of the interplay between the two all-consuming passions of this unheralded civic champion: his love of beauty in the public realm that would forever change New York City, and his love for a younger man that would forever change Bard.

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About Us

Our Story and Mission

The New York Preservation Archive Project is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, celebrating, and educating about the history of historic preservation in New York City.

Recognizing the instructive and inspirational importance of this history to the continued health, success and growth of preservation in our City, the Archive Project hopes to bring these stories to light through public programs, oral histories, and providing public access to information. The Archive Project is devoted to celebrating neglected narratives of New York historic preservation using the archives that hold these stories.

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