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A SKYLINE RESTORATION PUBLICATION
Celebrating 150 years in business, Gladding McBean, the legacy terra cotta fabricators, share how they’ve integrated new technologies
into their traditional processes to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
ISSUE #52 SPRING 2025
An award-winning restoration uncovers a hidden 20th-century roofing system—and a modern solution forged through collaboration.
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Preserving the Past, Reinventing the Roof
An award-winning restoration uncovers a hidden 20th-century roofing system—and a modern solution forged through collaboration. The...
May 309 min read
Honoring 60 Years of the NYC Landmarks Law
On April 19, 1965, New York City made history when Mayor Robert F. Wagner signed the Landmarks Law—legislation born from the loss of the...
May 302 min read
Modern Landmarks
The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) kept busy right up until the end of year, voting at its December 19th public meeting to...
Feb 15, 20241 min read
"We Create History"
In the intricate world of stonecutting, Traditional Cut Stone Ltd. is known for artistry and precision, seamlessly blending classical...
Feb 15, 20246 min read
Restoring the Historic Roof at 110 E 42nd Street, New York
Preserving New York's Heritage One Tile at a Time - By Amy DeLuca Senior Project Manager/ Studio Lead, CANY The first time that I stepped...
Oct 25, 20234 min read
Distinctive and Enduring Cast Stone and GFRC Replications
Vestacast's products enhance the city skyline today and for the future “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act,...
Jun 12, 20237 min read
$6 Million in Funds to Rehabilitate Newly Designated Landmark
(Former) Colored School No. 4 is Only Known Surviving Example of Racially Segregated School in Manhattan On May 23, 2023, New York City...
Jun 12, 20232 min read
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...
Feb 28, 20233 min read
The Journey to Excellence
These awards recognize the quality, scale, and complexity of the carefully executed restoration — the result of a tremendous...
Feb 28, 20238 min read
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...
Dec 17, 20224 min read
Celebrating Excellence
Skyline Restoration Receives Its Third Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award for One Wall Street The One Wall Street Condominium Residences...
Jul 5, 20223 min read
Peter Oxenham
After 17 years and over 3,000 estimates, Skyline Restoration’s senior estimator, a mentor to many, retired earlier this year PHOTO:...
Jan 6, 20224 min read
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, 20203 min read
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...
Dec 28, 20204 min read
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...
Jul 8, 20203 min read
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...
Oct 14, 20191 min read
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, 20191 min read
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...
Jul 25, 20191 min read
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, 20192 min read
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...
Apr 18, 20191 min read
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...
Jan 18, 20191 min read
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 15, 20186 min read
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, 20182 min read
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...
Oct 12, 20181 min read
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