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New Yorkers work to save endangered buildings

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  • Houses along Park Place between Kingston and Albany in Crown Heights.
    Photo Credit: Linda Rosier
  • Houses along Park Place between Kingston and Albany in Crown Heights.
    Photo Credit: Linda Rosier
  • Houses on the south west side of Brooklyn Ave. between St Johns and Lincoln Place in Crown Heights.
    Photo Credit: Linda Rosier
  • Andrew Berman is arguably the face of the historical preservation movement around Greenwich Village.
    Photo Credit: Linda Rosier
  • Buildings at 198 and 200 6th Ave., which are in the Greenwich Village neighborhood that preservationists are trying to landmark.
    Photo Credit: Linda Rosier
  • New construction in Greenwich Village at 1 Van Dam street, which is in the neighborhood preservationists are trying to landmark.
    Photo Credit: Linda Rosier
  • Mount Manresa, a Jesuit Retreat house, on Fingerboard Rd. in Staten Island.
    Photo Credit: Linda Rosier
  • Shealy Hall at Mount Manresa. The site encompasses a Jesuit retreat house, an 88-year-old chapel and completely unaltered terrain, was recently sold to real estate developers.
    Photo Credit: Linda Rosier
  • Community members who worry Mount Monresa will be turned into townhouses or a strip mall are working to preserve the site and maintain it as a park.
    Photo Credit: Linda Rosier
  • Demolition at Mount Manresa began in February 2014 and activists have held protests at City Hall and on Staten Island to bring attention to their cause.
    Photo Credit: Linda Rosier
  • Public School 31, the “Castle on the Concourse,” is among the most endangered sites in the Bronx.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • The old P.S. 31 in the Bronx has been so neglected that it may be torn down despite already receiving landmark designation.
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • 425 Grand Concourse in the Bronx is the former location of P.S. 31 and is known as the
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert

Classic neighborhoods are constantly endangered by rapid overdevelopment; historic structures routinely fall victim to the wrecking ball. A handful of New Yorkers have made it their mission to protect historic buildings, streets and other structures from developers and decay.

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