Publisher: The New York Times
Sixty years ago, in the summer of 1963, a four-story townhouse on West 130th Street in Harlem became the headquarters for what was then the largest civil rights event in American history, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Publisher: The Art Newspaper
The long-time home of influential Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes is now open to the public as a historic house museum.

Publisher: The New York Times
In the 227 years since its birth, Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — the oldest Black church in New York State — has served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, a haven for Black artists and intellectuals during the Harlem Renaissance, and an amphitheater for civil rights activism during the 1950s and ‘60s.

Publisher: Brownstoner
Angered by the razing of landmarked or calendered properties throughout New York City — including the Jacob Dangler mansion at 441 Willoughby in Bed Stuy and literary landmark 14 Gay Street in Greenwich Village — dozens of preservationists, pols and neighborhood activists called for change at a gathering on the steps of City Hall Thursday afternoon.

Publisher: The New York Times
Many New Yorkers assume that a historic building, once the city designates it a landmark or includes it in a historic district, is protected from demolition. But that idealized notion of preservation has been smashed in recent weeks, as if by a wrecking ball, from Harlem to the meatpacking district.

Publisher: New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
Today, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) designated the Central Harlem – West 130-132nd Streets Historic District. This mid-block historic district is not only representative of Central Harlem’s residential architecture, but the rich social, cultural, and political life of its African American population in the 20th century.

Publisher: Patch
The City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted Tuesday to consider creating a new historic district in Central Harlem.

Publisher: The New York Times
“What we have is 12 houses,” Matthew Spady said, walking down a ski-slope-steep street in Washington Heights, in Upper Manhattan — 12 houses that have stood together in an unbroken row since the president was William McKinley and the mayor was Robert Van Wyck, who tends nowadays to figure in rush-hour rants on the expressway named after him in Queens.

Publisher: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
At a public meeting today, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) made determinations on properties that were calendared prior to 2010 and were not acted upon, marking a significant milestone in LPC’s Backlog Initiative.

Publisher: The New York Times
Celia Cruz and Tito Puente, two legendary Latin musicians, may not have had superpowers, but an artist from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, plans to tap the popularity of comic book heroes to celebrate the significance of these and other figures in the cultural history of East Harlem.

Publisher: The New Yorker
This article was published June 21, 1981. In one of the early months of 1914, St. James Presbyterian, a black church then occupying premises on West Fifty-first Street, in Manhattan, decided to move farther uptown, to Harlem.