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| PRESERVATION LEAGUE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
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The Preservation League’s programs and services provide the help and expertise essential to protect and enhance New York’s historic built and natural environments. |
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| Through its Preserve New York
grant program, the League offers direct project assistance to
non-profit organizations and municipalities. Since 1993, the League has
awarded just over $1,000,000 to more than 275 local preservation
projects throughout the state. The League’s investment has leveraged
over $2,000,000 in cash and in-kind support for these projects.
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| Recognized across the state as experts in historic
preservation and preservation law, the League’s staff responds to more
than 2,000 inquiries each year, providing members with convenient, but
hard-to-come-by information, strategies, and resources. The legal
services program provides assistance in drafting local preservation
laws, training local landmark commissions and litigating to save
endangered landmarks.
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| The League advocates strongly and effectively for positive
economic incentives and legislative policies that advance historic
preservation, and its advocacy network links preservationists across
the state. League efforts have helped to create public funds for
historic preservation in The Clean Air/Clean Water Bond Act, The
Environmental Quality Bond Act, and New York State tax incentives such
as the real
property tax incentive of 1997. The League is now advocating
for a state income
tax credit for the rehabilitation of historic homes
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| The Preservation League’s annual awards celebrate the
outstanding leadership of public officials and individuals in the field
of preservation as well as recognize exemplary preservation projects.
These awards are invaluable to the recipients: a League award
celebrates the completion of outstanding restoration projects;
validates an organization’s work; encourages advocates to continue
their pursuits; and elevates the visibility of the project, thus
increasing the chances of additional investment by local funders and
the greater community.
2005 Award Recipients 2001 Award
Recipients
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| The League recently undertook a substantial research project
with real estate and economic development consultant, Donovan Rypkema.
Entitled New York State: Profiting Through Preservation, the
study looks at ways in which historic preservation acts as an economic
development tool that generates more jobs, tourism, affordable housing,
and downtown investment than new construction.
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Education |
Conferences and workshops sponsored by the League provide
preservation activists, property owners, and community groups with the
tools they need to protect their irreplaceable architectural heritage.
The quarterly newsletter, Preservation News, and
technical/professional updates, Preservation Network News,
offer substantive information on timely historic preservation issues.
The League also publishes technical bulletins with easy-to-understand
answers to questions regarding local preservation laws, the State
Historic Preservation Act, sources of funding for preservation
projects, and many other topics.
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| Fifteen organizations and agencies make up the Barn
Coalition, which was formed to preserve New York State’s rural heritage
and its most powerful symbol– the barn. The League’s contributions as
leader of this coalition consist of creating conferences and workshops,
fielding phone calls regarding the coalition and the historic barn tax
credit, and including articles relating to barn preservation in Preservation
News.
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| The Preservation Colleagues consist of New York State’s
staffed, nonprofit preservation organizations. The League provides a
forum for the leaders of these organizations to share preservation
issues, to learn together, and to establish vital networks, lessening
their sense of isolation and strengthening their efforts to form a
statewide movement for historic preservation.
Who are the Preservation Colleague groups?
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Seven to Save is a published list of the seven most endangered properties in New York State. The League focuses attention on these threatened historic resources and offers realistic solutions for protecting them. The League is committed to helping these Seven to Save through strong statewide publicity and by giving them priority for League technical services, legal assistance and funding.
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