PLNYS in the news
“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
Pair of historic Remsen sites to receive funds from Preservation League of New York
D&H Canal Historical Society awarded technical assistance grant
“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
New York Preservation League honors eight advocates and historic projects across the Empire State
Buffalo’s Nash Lofts Receives Statewide Recognition from the Preservation League of NYS
Bent’s Opera House restoration honored with state-wide preservation award
Olean's First National project receives Preservation League award
“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
HIGH NOTES: Concerts for cancer, $1M aquatic center splash, Shaker preservation
Area Library, Historical Society Receive Preserve New York Grants
Oneida Community Mansion House receives Preserve New York grant
Oneida Community Mansion House receives grant to fund Cultural Landscape Report
Oneida Community Mansion House Receives Grant to Fund Preservation Report
CPW in Kingston, village of New Paltz, Hudson-Athens lighthouse get preservation grants
“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
Shortage of skilled preservation trade workers delaying historic preservation projects
Report probes shortage of skilled preservation trades workers in Northeast
Opinion: Understanding and advancing historic preservation trades in the Northeast
“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
Village of Clyde receives $4K state grant to preserve downtown gazebo
Cayuga Museum & Seward House Awarded Grants for Project Studies
Reher Center receives grant for lead, mold, and asbestos testing
“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
Buffalo Lighthouse Association awarded a Preserve New York Grant
Heldeberg Workshop gets $8K grant to study human history of its land
Grant will start restoration effort for another part of Buffalo's maritime heritage
2022-2023 Seven to Save Coverage
Saving a church, preserving African-American history in Watertown
Willard State Hospital among ‘Seven to Save’ historical sites in NY
Historic Preservationists Mark Springs Artists’ Studios Among Most Endangered
Preservation League hopes to save woodlands near Genesee Valley Park
Preservation group says vacant Willard Psych Center should be saved
Watertown AME church receives historic designation, efforts to save it continue
State preservation group backs push to landmark South Union Square district
7 Endangered Historic Buildings & Districts in New York State
NYS Preservation League To Help Save Endangered Historic Downtown Oneonta
Program aims to preserve Thomas Memorial AME Zion Church in Watertown
“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
Survey of Historic Caleb Smith House to Help Determine Needed Repairs
Naples' historic Cleveland House awarded technical assistance grant
Town of Amsterdam awarded grant for structural analysis of historic Broodmare Barn
Local organization receives grant from the state (YWCA Cortland)
Grant sets stage for foundation work at pioneer home in Naples
Naples Historical Society receives Preservation League grant for restoration of Cleveland House
“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
Whitcomb's Garage wins Excellence in Historic Preservation Award
Whitcomb's In Upstate NY Offers Perfect Model For Localized "Third Space" Amidst Remote Work Boom
Preservation League of New York State honors Steven Engelhart and Whitcomb’s Garage
Elmira rehabilitation projects named an Excellence in Historic Preservation award winner
An old garage in Whallonsburg wins top historic preservation award
“'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
Grant Adds Momentum to Historic Preservation Efforts in University Heights
Jamestown Awarded $10,000 Grant To Preserve Historically Significant Homes
East Hampton Town Awarded Grant to Document Historic Burying Grounds, Gravesites
Town of Southeast Cultural Arts Coalition Awarded Preserve New York Grant
Grant awarded to Southeast Cultural Arts Coalition a step toward restoring landmark
Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society awarded a Preserve New York Grant
Hudson River region counts on preservation grants to aid communities
State grant awarded to Elmira College to fund critical Historic Landscape Report of Quarry Farm
Survey of historic resources can be used for economic and leisure planning
Seven Hudson Valley Sites Granted Thousands of Dollars for Historic Preservation Projects
PNY Grants: Albany, Erie, Greene, Monroe, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, and Warren
“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
“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