Awards of Excellence in Historic Preservation
Skyline's restoration project at The Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, at 520 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn, NY receives two prestigious...
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- Feb 28
- 8 min
The Journey to Excellence
These awards recognize the quality, scale, and complexity of the carefully executed restoration — the result of a tremendous...
- Dec 17, 2022
- 4 min
3D Laser Scanning Brings Accuracy in Exterior Restoration
Alan Barr, owner of Stone Details, explains how technology brings important advances to surveys and documentation for existing buildings...
- Jul 5, 2022
- 3 min
Celebrating Excellence
Skyline Restoration Receives Its Third Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award for One Wall Street The One Wall Street Condominium Residences...
- Jan 6, 2022
- 4 min
Peter Oxenham
After 17 years and over 3,000 estimates, Skyline Restoration’s senior estimator, a mentor to many, retired earlier this year PHOTO:...
- Dec 28, 2020
- 3 min
Restoring the past for the present and the future
At 74 Trinity Place, Skyline Restoration salvaged an early 20th century piece of history for generations to come It took six weeks to...
- Dec 28, 2020
- 4 min
Tesla Center reveals first renovation on historic lab
A 112-year-old chimney crown designed for inventor Nikola Tesla’s Wardenclyffe laboratory is restored to its original spot The...
- Jul 8, 2020
- 3 min
Restoration of the Bell Tower at NYU
The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU, named for the octogenarian monarch who ceded the throne to his son, features programming...
- Oct 14, 2019
- 1 min
Restoration Begins at New York State Pavilion’s Observation Towers
The New York State Pavilion’s observation towers at the former World’s Fair site in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park will finally be...
- Jul 25, 2019
- 1 min
The First Historic District in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
On June 25th, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) designated the Bay Ridge Parkway – Doctors’ Row Historic...
- Jul 25, 2019
- 1 min
TWA Hotel opens in JFK airport’s iconic flight center
MCR and MORSE Development have reignited the magic of Eero Saarinen’s landmark 1962 TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, restoring and...
- Apr 18, 2019
- 2 min
Façade Restoration at One Wall Street
The building at One Wall Street was constructed in 1929-31 as the corporate headquarters of the Irving Trust Company. This 50-story,...
- Apr 18, 2019
- 1 min
Hudson Yards Opens – Inaugural Walk Traverses the Vessel
On Friday, March 15, 2019, Hudson Yards, the largest private real estate development in the nation and the largest in New York City since...
- Jan 18, 2019
- 1 min
Sarah Carroll, the Newly Appointed Chair of LPC, Talks to SKYlines
In September 2018, Sarah Carroll was appointed Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to "lead...
- Oct 15, 2018
- 6 min
Local Law 196 – One Year Later
One year ago, on October 16, 2017, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stood at the podium advertising the slogan ‘SAFER NYC’ to announce...
- Oct 12, 2018
- 2 min
Skyline Restores Two NYU Buildings in NoHo District
New York University (NYU) is the largest private university in the United States. Established on April 18, 1831 by Albert Gallatin, then...
- Oct 12, 2018
- 1 min
LPC's Vice Chair Frederick Bland
Frederick Bland, a commissioner and recently appointed vice chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, is now presiding over the...
- Jul 12, 2018
- 1 min
Coney Island’s Boardwalk Becomes a Landmark on its 95th Anniversary
LPC Designates New York City’s Eleventh Scenic Landmark Built in 1923 On its 95th Anniversary, The Riegelmann Boardwalk at Coney Island...
- Jun 20, 2018
- 1 min
Srinivasan, LPC Chairwomen, Served Last Day in Office on June 1st
The chair of New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, Meenakshi Srinivasan, served her last day on June 1st following the...
- Feb 20, 2018
- 3 min
Public Hearing on Proposed Amendments to LPC Rules
The Astor Library was the subject of the Landmarks Preservation Commission's first public hearing in 1965. The Landmarks Preservation...
- Nov 28, 2017
- 2 min
Art Deco Restoration in Manhattan’s Financial District
116 John Street a National Register of Historic Places Manhattan’s Financial District has been an epicenter for business and trade since...
- Jan 27, 2017
- 1 min
NYC Landmarks Commission's Latest Designations
2016 brought to an end the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s (LPC) “backlog” initiative; a plan to address a group of 95 buildings and...
- Jan 27, 2017
- 2 min
Restoration In The Cast-Iron District: Skyline Restoration's Project at 399 West Broadway, New
The SoHo district in Lower Manhattan has a rich history defined by architectural transformations and socioeconomic shifts. SoHo, short...
- Jan 27, 2017
- 3 min
Timeline Of a Building Envelope Restoration Project
What’s Involved in the Planning and Execution of Each Phase By Kevin Duffy, Sullivan Engineering LLC Time certainly does fly, especially...
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