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- Red Hook’s Lidgerwood Complex and the Importance of Our Industrial History
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Monthly Archives: November 2019
Red Hook’s Lidgerwood Complex and the Importance of Our Industrial History
Long before New York City’s groundbreaking Landmarks Law was passed in 1965, preservationists advocated all across the city for the protection of our historic structures. The passage of the law, which created the Landmarks Preservation Commission as a city department, made it possible to protect entire neighborhoods as well as individual buildings from the …
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