After some major pushing by preservationists, three previously excluded sites (including two NYU buildings) are now being incorporated into the proposed South Village Historic District, a swath of much-fought-for land between Washington Square Park and Houston Street. Pending an LPC vote, the university's Vanderbilt Hall and Kevorkian Center along the park's southern edge are now set to be protected (the school declined to comment on this obstacle to any possible future expansion plans), as are a block of houses on Houston between Sullivan and Macdougal. Courtesy of the GVSHP, here's a not-so-brief history of the South Village landmarking saga. [The Villager, previously]
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