The New York Landmarks Conservancy

09/29/2026

COULD YOUR BUILDING BENEFIT FROM AN HPF LOAN?

A Leaky Parapet. A Historic Building. A Solution.

The Historic Properties Fund (HPF) was recently featured in Habitat Magazine, a news publication geared towards cooperatives and condominiums in New York City, due to their support in a successful project completion at the historic 4404 6th Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. 

The building is one of more than 30 cooperative apartment buildings around Sunset Park that Finnish immigrants built or converted to co-ops in the early 1900s. Architects Eisenla and Carlson designed and built it in 1914, and it became a co-op in 1922. These buildings were among the first co-ops in the United States and served as a model for the cooperative housing movement that followed. The neighborhood was known as Finntown well into the 1980s. The building is now part of the Sunset Park North Historic District, designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2019.

The HPF loan allowed the 16-unit co-op to make necessary repairs to the 112-year-old building’s parapet, addressing leaks that were heavily impacting residents. 

Co-op Board Member Andrea Knox shared that, “It totally feels like the historic nature of the building is there — just rebuilt. I don’t think we would have been able to do the project without the loan.” 

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COULD YOUR BUILDING BENEFIT FROM AN HPF LOAN?

If you live in a historic district and are considering a loan for exterior work on your building, check out our website.

The low-interest loan program has helped more than 280 buildings since beginning in 1982. An HPF loan also comes with expert guidance from our staff on building conditions and from architects and companies with experience restoring historic buildings.

Habitat Magazine

09/28/2026

St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, founded in 1916, was destroyed during the September 11th attacks when the South Tower collapsed. No one inside was killed. After years of negotiations, the church was rebuilt in Liberty Park, designed by Santiago Calatrava with luminous Pentelic marble donated by Greece. Today, it serves as both an Orthodox church and an interfaith shrine honoring 9/11 victims and first responders.

09/26/2026

Seventy-five FDNY firehouses lost members on 9/11. While some of them are designated landmarks, others remain active tributes to the first responders. Here are a few of the many stations that provided critical emergency responses:

Firehouse Squad 288 & Hazmat (1 Borden Avenue and 68th Street in Maspeth)
This fire station was among the first responders to the 9/11 attacks. It suffered the largest loss of life of any single firehouse on 9/11, with 19 firefighters killed. Local officials have repeatedly campaigned to have the 1914 building granted official New York City landmark status.

FDNY Ten House. Engine Company 10, Ladder Company 10 (124 Liberty Street)
This firehouse sits directly across from the World Trade Center and was the first firehouse to respond to 9/11. Its bay doors were heavily damaged during the structural collapses. The firehouse lost 6 members on the day of the attacks and served as a command post during the initial rescue operations. The building now features a prominent FDNY Memorial Wall on its exterior facing the World Trade Center site.

Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 (782 8th Avenue)
This station is known as the hardest-hit firehouse in New York City on 9/11. They lost 15 firefighters, representing the entire on-duty shift.

Rescue Company 1 (430 West 43rd Street)
As one of FDNY’s highly trained Special Operations Command units, they were deployed to handle the extreme high-rise conditions inside the North Tower. Nearly half the responding crew perished, including Captain Terry Hatton, one of the department's most tactically respected leaders. All five of FDNY's premier Rescue companies suffered devastating losses that morning.

Ladder Company 3 (108 East 13th Street)
This station was among the initial wave of downtown ladder companies dispatched to the scene. These firefighters climbed high into the North Tower, carrying heavy specialized equipment to breach doors and clear evacuation routes for trapped civilians. The company lost all 12 responding crew members who entered the tower. Their crushed rear mount ladder truck was later recovered from the debris and is now preserved as a central artifact inside the 9/11 Memorial Museum.

Engine Company 33 (42 Great Jones Street)
When the North Tower collapsed, Engine Company 33 and its house partner, Ladder Company 9, rushed directly into Lower Manhattan from their historic Beaux-Arts firehouse at 42 Great Jones Street. Of the 14 crew members from the firehouse who deployed to the World Trade Center, 10 were killed, including 7 specifically from Engine 33. This firehouse became a New York City landmark in 1968.

09/25/2026

One World Trade Center is the main building at the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan. The building rose adjacent to the footprint of the original, destroyed North Tower on the northwest corner of the World Trade Center site. The spire reaches an exact height of 1,776 feet, a tribute to the year of American independence. It is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and was constructed between 2007 - 2013 by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Originally referred to as “Freedom Tower,” today it serves as the corporate headquarters for massive global brands like Condé Nast and draws tourists to the Observatory on the 100th-102nd floors.

09/24/2026

Congratulations to Michele M. for correctly guessing this month's Mystery Landmark! Thank you to everyone who guessed!

The Corbin Building, built in 1889 at 11 John Street, is an eight-story Romanesque Revival building designed by Francis H. Kimball. It was an early proto-skyscraper known for its cast-iron supports and elaborate terra-cotta decoration. After 9/11, it was threatened with demolition because of plans for the Fulton Street Transit Hub. Preservation groups successfully fought to save it, and the MTA restored its façade in 2012. They also integrated the Corbin Building with the transit center by created a ground-level entrance at Broadway and John Street. The building was officially landmarked in 2015 and the Conservancy was delighted to present the MTA a special stewardship award at the Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards ceremony in 2013 for the management and care of its many historic buildings, including the 2012 restoration of the Corbin Building.

09/23/2026

The site of Ground Zero was originally underwater in the Hudson River before being built up over centuries of landfill. The original World Trade Center complex began construction in 1966, after 13 square blocks were cleared and a massive concrete slurry wall was built to hold back the river water. The Twin Towers opened in 1973 as symbols of global economic power. In 1993, a truck bomb detonated by terrorists in the underground garage beneath the North Tower killed six people, but the towers remained standing. After the 9/11 attacks, the area immediately became known as “Ground Zero,” a military term used to describe the point directly above or below a detonation or disaster.

Ground Zero was transformed from 16 acres of total devastation following 9/11 into a meticulously planned landscape that aimed to balance solemn memory with modern urban renewal. The recovery phase officially concluded in May 2002, paving the way for a public-driven design process that resulted in the National September 11th Memorial & Museum. Twin bronze-edged reflecting pools sit directly within the footprints of the original Twin Towers alongside preserved relics like the slurry wall. Today, the site is anchored by One World Trade Center, which opened in 2014 at a symbolic 1,776 feet, and the Oculus Transportation Hub.

09/22/2026

The New York Evening Post Building at 20 Vesey Street is a rare example of Vienna Secession Art Nouveau architecture, designed by Robert D. Kohn and completed in April 1907. The building was originally commissioned by Oswald Garrison Villard for the New York Evening Post. It became a New York City landmark in 1965.

In the years following 9/11, a portion of the ground floor and lower levels of the historic building operated as the official 9/11 Memorial Preview Site, which gave the public an opportunity to learn about the future National 9/11 Memorial and Museum and to view construction progress at the World Trade Center site. It also displayed early artifacts, provided live webcams of the Ground Zero construction, and included an on-site audio booth for visitors to record personal 9/11 stories and reflections.

09/22/2026

Can you identify this New York City landmark?

Correctly name the structure or location in the photo and you will automatically be entered into our Mystery Landmark contest drawing. Comment or submit your guess to [email protected] by 5pm on September 23rd.

As a hint, in September, we are highlighting the Lower Manhattan landmarks and historic structures that survived 9/11, as well as sites rebuilt as symbols of resilience, renewal, and remembrance.

09/21/2026

The South Street Seaport Museum, located at Schermerhorn Row, preserves New York’s maritime history. Founded in 1967, the museum became closely connected to 9/11 when its historic ships at Pier 16 were covered in ash and debris. A $10,000 grant helped clean and preserve the ships. The museum also created an oral history archive documenting how ferry captains, tugboat crews, and private boaters helped evacuate hundreds of thousands of people from Lower Manhattan on September 11th, 2001.

09/21/2026

The City’s latest program for increasing housing wants to add 700,000 homes to New York over the next 10 years. That would be like adding all of Philadelphia. It is highly unlikely to happen. But if it did, neighborhoods throughout the City could be drastically different, and the public would have little to say about it. At the least, it could set the stage for massive upzonings.

The City’s latest program for increasing housing wants to add 700,000 homes to New York over the next 10 years. That would be like adding all of Philadelphia. It is highly unlikely to happen.