Village Preservation maintains the only record of all landmark designations in NYC by date of designation, which offers invaluable insight into what kind of and how many landmark designations are taking place across our city each year and under each Mayor, as well as where they are occurring. This record allowed us to quantify and show that under Mayor Eric Adams landmark designations had fallen to unprecedented levels, the lowest in 60 years of our landmarks law’s existence. 

We update the list quarterly so all New Yorkers can see what landmark designations have taken place recently and where, and can compare them to other designations over time. 

This is the first update of the Mamdani Administration, covering its first six months. As you can see, with just three individual landmark designations and zero historic district designations, the Mayor is off to a very slow start, with an annual pace of designations that lags behind every one of his predecessors, including the prior last-place finisher, Eric Adams. However, with this relatively short time frame so far, Mayor Mamdani has plenty of room to make up for lost time and restore the the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to its prior vigor and proactive approach, before it was kneecapped by Mayor Adams. 

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We have also recently updated our report cataloging every new building approved for construction in the Greenwich Village Historic District, which is the only comprehensive record of all such approvals in the city’s largest historic district. The report includes buildings built and those approved but never constructed, large ones and small, and contextual as well as head-scratchingly out-of-place ones.