"I am Preservation" with Joana Miranda As we celebrate our 50th anniversary we are highlighting a video series called "I am Preservation" to exhibit the widespread love of landmarks throughout the City. Please join in the celebration and send us your video. We will post clips throughout the rest of the year on our many social media platforms. TIPS for making your own "I am Preservation" video. Say your name, and if you like, the neighborhood that you live in. Briefly comment on what you love about New York City landmarks or a specific historic building, place, or structure. And, finish by saying “I am Preservation!” Film in landscape mode (hold smartphone horizontally) If you can’t film yourself, maybe have a friend film you in front of a landmark or your favorite historic building or structure. Be aware of your surroundings (street-level noise, etc.) Check your lighting. If possible, you don’t want to be in an area that is too dark or too bright. Set up your shot (minimize things that might be distracting on screen) We are looking for short clips. Thirty seconds at maximum. Make eye contact, don’t forget to smile. Speak up and enunciate your words. We want viewers to hear you. Send your finished video clips to [email protected] Have fun! #iampreservation #nylandmarks #nylandmarksconservancy

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Prospect Cemetery is one of the City’s few remaining colonial cemeteries, and is located in Jamaica, Queens. It was established before 1668 by English settlers who created the Town of Jamaica using land granted by the Dutch. The cemetery was extended by various landowners, one of whom is Nicholas Ludlum. Ludlum built a Romanesque Revival chapel in the cemetery, the Chapel of the Sisters, as a memorial to his three deceased daughters. Members of early prominent families, such as the Van Wycks, Sutphins, and Brinkerhoffs, are buried here, as well as Revolutionary War veterans. For two decades, the Conservancy has worked with the Prospect Cemetery Association to restore the cemetery. Along with the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation and the City of New York Parks Department, we helped secure $2.4 million in public and private support to stabilize and revitalize this important landmark site. Efforts included tree removal, grounds clearing, new grass and plantings, marker conservation, and the restoration of the Chapel of the Sisters. Today, the Prospect Cemetery Association provides tours by appointment. Notable interments include: • Increase Carpenter - was a member of the secret society Sons of Liberty and served on the Committee of Correspondence, a shadow government behind the Patriot colonists. He was also a Colonial Minuteman in the Jamaica militia and Quartermaster in General George Washington’s army during the War for Independence. • Egbert Benson - was a Founding Father of the United States who represented New York in the Continental Congress and the United States House of Representatives. He also served as a member of the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1788 which ratified the United States Constitution. Prospect Cemetery is a New York City Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

"I am Preservation" with Barbara Tober As we celebrate our 50th anniversary we are highlighting a video series called "I am Preservation" to exhibit the widespread love of landmarks throughout the City. Please join in the celebration and send us your video. We will post clips throughout the rest of the year on our many social media platforms. TIPS for making your own "I am Preservation" video. Say your name, and if you like, the neighborhood that you live in. Briefly comment on what you love about New York City landmarks or a specific historic building, place, or structure. And, finish by saying “I am Preservation!” Film in landscape mode (hold smartphone horizontally) If you can’t film yourself, maybe have a friend film you in front of a landmark or your favorite historic building or structure. Be aware of your surroundings (street-level noise, etc.) Check your lighting. If possible, you don’t want to be in an area that is too dark or too bright. Set up your shot (minimize things that might be distracting on screen) We are looking for short clips. Thirty seconds at maximum. Make eye contact, don’t forget to smile. Speak up and enunciate your words. We want viewers to hear you. Send your finished video clips to [email protected] Have fun! #iampreservation #nylandmarks #nylandmarksconservancy

"I am Preservation" with Colleen Murphy and Michael Canaris As we celebrate our 50th anniversary we are highlighting a video series called "I am Preservation" to exhibit the widespread love of landmarks throughout the City. Please join in the celebration and send us your video. We will post clips throughout the rest of the year on our many social media platforms. TIPS for making your own "I am Preservation" video. Say your name, and if you like, the neighborhood that you live in. Briefly comment on what you love about New York City landmarks or a specific historic building, place, or structure. And, finish by saying “I am Preservation!” Film in landscape mode (hold smartphone horizontally) If you can’t film yourself, maybe have a friend film you in front of a landmark or your favorite historic building or structure. Be aware of your surroundings (street-level noise, etc.) Check your lighting. If possible, you don’t want to be in an area that is too dark or too bright. Set up your shot (minimize things that might be distracting on screen) We are looking for short clips. Thirty seconds at maximum. Make eye contact, don’t forget to smile. Speak up and enunciate your words. We want viewers to hear you. Send your finished video clips to [email protected] Have fun! #hotelchelsea #iampreservation #nylandmarks #nylandmarksconservancy

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Green-Wood is an early American cemetery, one of the most visited sites in ny state. The landscape design was established before there were city parks, was a tourist attraction and a source of leisurely strolls in nature. located in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, established in 1838 by one of the borough’s most prominent social leaders, Henry Evelyn Pierrepont. There are approximately 600,000 graves dispersed among the cemetery’s 478 acres. Many of these belong to some of the most important New Yorkers who lived in the late 1800’s, including members of the Clinton and Roosevelt families. Green-Wood’s most predominant architectural feature is the striking clock-tower and gateway, created in Gothic Revival style, and designed by Richard Upjohn in 1861. Before the New York Landmarks Commission was established in 1965, a Designated Landmarks of New York plaque was given to the cemetery by the New York Community Trust in 1958. In 1966, Green-Wood was declared a New York City Landmark and it became a National Historic Landmark in 2006. To learn more about the Green Wood Cemetery, watch our Tourist in Your Own Town video: https://nylandmarks.org/explore-ny/green-wood-cemetery/ #greenwoodcemetery #nylandmarks #HauntedNYC #CemeteriesOfNYC #HistoricCemeteries Photo @noelsutherland

The NYC Department of Records & Information Services (DORIS) is hosting the opening event of their new exhibit, “Uniting the Boroughs: The Triborough Bridge”. October 26, 6:30-8PM The exhibit explores the history of the bridge and its role in uniting Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens in a rapidly modernizing city. More information and registration at the link in bio. @nycarchives

St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral is located at Mott Street and Prince Street in Nolita, Manhattan. The basilica is surrounded on the North and South sides by a 10-foot high brick wall, landmarked in 1966. The brick wall was built in the early 1830’s to protect the church and landscaped cemetery from nativist anti-Catholic violence. The cemetery contains many old tombstones and was originally constructed in the early 19th century, when the graveyard around St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Barclay Street reached capacity. The graveyard is the final resting ground for many of New York City’s early Catholics, most of whom were Irish.

The Conservancy’s Director of Preservation Services, Blaire Walsh, spoke to Staten Island Advance about the grant and technical assistance we provided for repairs at the Sandy Ground Historical Society museum. Sandy Ground is the nation’s oldest continually inhabited free Black settlement and an endangered historical site. Read the full story at the link in bio. 📸@siadvance

"I am Preservation" with Rev Dr. Derrick McQueen - St. James Presbyterian Church, Harlem As we celebrate our 50th anniversary we are highlighting a video series called "I am Preservation" to exhibit the widespread love of landmarks throughout the City. Please join in the celebration and send us your video. We will post clips throughout the rest of the year on our many social media platforms. TIPS for making your own "I am Preservation" video. Say your name, and if you like, the neighborhood that you live in. Briefly comment on what you love about New York City landmarks or a specific historic building, place, or structure. And, finish by saying “I am Preservation!” Film in landscape mode (hold smartphone horizontally) If you can’t film yourself, maybe have a friend film you in front of a landmark or your favorite historic building or structure. Be aware of your surroundings (street-level noise, etc.) Check your lighting. If possible, you don’t want to be in an area that is too dark or too bright. Set up your shot (minimize things that might be distracting on screen) We are looking for short clips. Thirty seconds at maximum. Make eye contact, don’t forget to smile. Speak up and enunciate your words. We want viewers to hear you. Send your finished video clips to [email protected] Have fun! #iampreservation #nylandmarksconservancy

Congratulations to Todd C. for correctly guessing this month's Mystery Landmark! Thank you to everyone who Trinity Church, prominently located at the end of Wall Street at 79 Broadway, is the oldest Episcopal church in New York City. The parish was founded in 1696, and the church was built two years later. It would stand for 78 years before being destroyed in the fire of 1776 during the British occupation of New York. A second version was built in 1790 and was torn down in 1839 due to snow damage. The third and current church was rebuilt in 1846. The church cemetery contains significant graves and memorials from the Revolutionary War. It includes Alexander Hamilton’s grave and a memorial to 16 officers of the Continental Army and Navy buried in several of the church’s cemeteries (Trinity, Saint Paul’s Chapel and the uptown 155th Street grounds). The cemetery also exhibits the large Soldier’s Monument built around 1852 to honor those Americans who died imprisoned by the British within New York City. It also mentions those imprisoned in the nearby Sugar House just north of the church, as it is believed that the remains of those patriots exist within the churchyard. The monument reads: “SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF those brave and good Men who died whilst imprisoned in this City, for their devotion to the cause of AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.”