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Time to remove that question mark - with its vote yesterday, the City Council has officially designated the main refinery of the Domino sugar factory a New York City Landmark!
Brooklyn's Domino sugar factory gets landmark status (Newsday)
Domino Plant is Now a Landmark (NYT/CityRoom)
Gotham Gazette has a follow-up on the Council's approval of the Domino designation. The final tally was 46-0, and Council Speaker Christine Quinn clearly understands the urban landscape and why Domino matters:
Describing New York as "a place where residential buildings abut what have been manufacturing and where manufacturing buildings can transform into new residential buildings in our city," Quinn said preserving the sugar refinery would contribute to sustaining the city's intricate and novel urban landscape.
Photo: PhotoPhoenix
More good news on the industrial & waterfront heritage front (to close out what has, in retrospect, been a very good 2007): today the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to designate the DUMBO Historic District. This has been a long time coming, but worth the wait.
BREAKING: Dumbo Designated as Landmark District (Brownstoner)
The City Planning Commission will hold its hearing today on the Eberhard Faber Historic District designation. This represents the last step in the process before the designation goes to the City Council for final approval.
Where: 22 Reade Street, Manhattan
When: Wednesday, 19 December
Agenda [pdf]
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