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The three new landmarks \u2014 the Public School 15 Annex in Boerum Hill, the Church of Saint Mary on the Lower East Side, and the Lithuanian Alliance Building in Chelsea \u2014 join over 38,500 buildings and sites that are protected by the city as historical landmarks.<\/p>\n
Photos courtesy NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission<\/p>\n
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)<\/a> designated three buildings as historical landmarks on Tuesday, noting each location\u2019s importance to the city\u2019s long history of immigration.<\/p>\n The locations \u2014 the Public School 15 Annex in Boerum Hill, the Church of Saint Mary on the Lower East Side, and the Lithuanian Alliance Building in Chelsea \u2014 join over 38,500 buildings and sites that are protected by the city as historical landmarks.<\/p>\n The LPC voted to designate the buildings at a Tuesday meeting following a public hearing last month about each building\u2019s significance to the city and its history.<\/p>\n \u201cNew York City\u2019s history is the history of immigration, and the three landmarks designated today provide a tangible connection to places that helped communities establish roots and create lasting opportunities,\u201d Landmarks Preservation Commission Executive Director Lisa Kersavage said. \u201cThe designation of these architecturally distinctive buildings are part of the Commission\u2019s ongoing commitment to ensuring that our landmarks tell the story of all New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n The Public School 15 Annex<\/a>, a three-story Romanesque Revival-style building, was constructed in 1889 as an extension to Public School 15 in Brooklyn\u2019s Boerum Hill. The Annex became a group of schools that offered education to women, including many from immigrant families, and the Brooklyn Girls\u2019 Continuation School established its headquarters in the Annex in 1927.<\/p>\n The Annex now houses the Khalil Gibran International Academy<\/a>, the first public school in New York City to offer an Arabic and English dual language program. The site has been wrapped up in a controversial rezoning battle<\/a>, as developer Alloy gets to work on a new 44-story mixed-use building and the construction of two new public schools. Alloy will preserve the Annex while adaptively reusing the building as it constructs the new schools.<\/p>\n \u201cI am grateful that we are preserving the stunning facade of the Public School 15 Annex,\u201d Council Member Lincoln Restler (D-Brooklyn) said in a news release. \u201cThe creative reuse of this site to meet our housing crisis while protecting this architectural gem is a win for our community. Thank you to the team at LPC and Alloy for their work on this.\u201d<\/p>\n The Church of Saint Mary on Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side is the neighborhood\u2019s oldest Roman Catholic church building, constructed in 1833. It was an important church for Irish Catholics arriving in the city in the 19th century, and continues to serve Catholic immigrants moving to New York City. Today, the parish is mostly made up of Spanish speakers.<\/p>\n The church has gone largely untouched since an 1864 facade update, save for necessary repairs.\n<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re so happy to have been able to work with parishioners and City Council Member Marte to spread the word on the church\u2019s important history, and thrilled that the Commission has now landmarked this spiritual and architectural beacon to make sure it can serve generations to come,\u201d Lower East Side Preservation Initiative President Richard D. Moses said.<\/p>\n The Lithuanian Alliance Building in Chelsea has long served as the headquarters of the Lithuanian Alliance of America, providing a key support space for Lithuanian immigrants and the Lithuanian American community in New York City.<\/p>\n The Alliance selected the site for its headquarters in 1910 due to its proximity to Ellis Island, and the organization continues to support Lithuanians moving to New York City. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022 after the Alliance completed a 2018 restoration.<\/p>\n \u201cLithuanian Americans in New York love and cherish their only Lithuanian-owned building in the greater New York City area,\u201d an Alliance board member, Danius Glinskis, said in a news release. \u201cBeing recognized by the New York City Landmarks Commission is a great honor and one that recognizes our efforts to preserve the building as it was when we acquired it in 1910.\u201d<\/p>\n Mayor Zohran Mamdani applauded the commission\u2019s delegation of the three buildings.\n<\/p>\n \u201cImmigrants built New York City. Their stories live in every block, every neighborhood, every corner of the five boroughs. Today, I\u2019m proud to recognize three more sites that carry that legacy forward\u2014places that, for generations, have opened their doors to newcomers and helped define what it means to belong in the greatest city in the world,\u201d Mamdani said in a news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three new landmarks \u2014 the Public School 15 Annex in Boerum Hill, the Church of Saint Mary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[76006,15608,4921,66140,56913,32576,76007,76008,6167,76009,358,9,66144,11,10,12817,39717,76010],"class_list":{"0":"post-189489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-architectural-heritage","9":"tag-boerum-hill","10":"tag-chelsea","11":"tag-church-of-saint-mary","12":"tag-historical-preservation","13":"tag-immigrant-communities","14":"tag-immigration-history","15":"tag-landmark-designation","16":"tag-landmarks-preservation-commission","17":"tag-lithuanian-alliance-building","18":"tag-lower-east-side","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-city-landmarks","21":"tag-new-york-headlines","22":"tag-new-york-news","23":"tag-nyc-history","24":"tag-public-school-15-annex","25":"tag-urban-preservation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}