Closing Bell: Six Panels Explore Preservation in Brooklyn and Beyond

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    As part of the Saving Place: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks exhibit, the Museum of the City of New York is hosting several panel discussions that will run through the summer. The first panel talk, Preserving the Fabric of Our Neighborhoods, takes place this evening and examines the relationship between historic preservation and affordable housing. The panelists include Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Ingrid Gould Ellen, the director of the urban planning program at NYU Wagner.

    Is Preservation Elitist? will examine the question of not just how to preserve buildings but how to preserve a “culturally distinctive” place. Tia Powell Harris, the arts director for the Weeksville Heritage Center; Nikolai Fedak, founder of New York YIMBY; Claudette Brady of the Bedford Stuyvesant Society for Historic Preservation, and others will examine the question of how to preserve more than just buildings in the city’s rapidly changing neighborhoods.

    It should be a lively discussion, and will take place in July. A panel set for September will explore the varying approaches to preservation around the world, including in New York, Paris and Shanghai.

    There are six panel discussions in total running from May 26 through September 10. More details about all the talks can be found here.

    The events are $16, $12 for students and seniors and free for museum members. Tonight’s panel starts at 6:30 pm. Above, Union Street between 7th and 8th avenues in Park Slope.

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