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Please circulate our flyer to your friends, to help increase our volunteer membership & preservation supporters. Click on the image to download our flyer.
Help us gain new members by downloading our sign-up form & presenting it to your friends & family, and then return it to us. You will be recognized for your help.
To advocate for landmark status for architecturally & culturally significant sites in Rego Park, Forest Hills, & nearby Queens communities, & document local history.
Rego-Forest Preservation Council Flyer
Please circulate our flyer to your friends, to help increase our volunteer membership & preservation supporters. Click on the image to download our flyer.
HELP SAVE OUR COMMUNITY!
Welcome To Rego-Forest Preservation Council, founded by Chairman Michael Perlman. We are seeking support from preservationists, organizations, residents, property owners, & elected officials. To volunteer, e-mail unlockthevault@hotmail.com
1. NOMINATE a site as a NYC Individual Landmark (facade) or Interior Landmark to protect it from demolition & major alterations:
1. NOMINATE a site as a NYC Individual Landmark (facade) or Interior Landmark to protect it from demolition & major alterations:
2. NOMINATE a Historic District to protect buildings in a section of a neighborhood:
3. NOMINATE a site or district for the State & National Register of Historic Places to commemorate it & increase the likelihood of acquiring funds for restoration & upgrades:
http://www.parks.ny.gov/shpo/national-register
4. JOIN our Facebook group for preservation campaigns, news, memories, & historic & recent photos: http://www.facebook.com/groups/SaveRegoParkForestHillsQueens
Collections: http://bit.ly/RFPCphotos
MISSION STATEMENT
- Rego-Forester
- Rego-Forest Preservation Council seeks to preserve and commemorate the architectural and cultural history of Rego Park, Forest Hills, and adjacent neighborhoods of Queens, NY. We work with citizens, affiliate organizations, and property owners on local, city, state, & federal levels. Avenues include Individual Landmarks, Historic Districts, Rezonings, State & National Register properties and districts; to ultimately provide funding assistance for restoration and adaptive reuse, safeguard community character, and convey historic pride for current and future generations.
BLOG ARCHIVE
PETITIONS & LETTER CAMPAIGNS
ENDANGERED SITES
- Forest Hills Jewish Center
- Forest Hills Tennis Stadium (1923), 1 Tennis Place
- Jamaica Savings Bank (1968), 89-01 Queens Blvd, Elmhurst - Landmarked but overturned by City Council in 2005
- Metropolitan Industrial Bank facade & interior (1952), 99-01 Queens Blvd
- Midway Theatre (1942), 108-22 Queens Blvd
- Neighborhoods At Risk - Compiled By Historic Districts Council
- Neo-Renaissance Rowhouses (1906), 72nd Ave bet. Austin St & Queens Blvd, Forest Hills
- Triumph of Civic Virtue statue (1920), Queens Blvd near Union Tpk, Kew Gardens
- Trylon Theater (coincides with 1939 World's Fair), 98-81 Queens Blvd, Forest Hills
DESIGNATED LANDMARKS
STATE & NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
NEIGHBORHOOD FLICKR PHOTO COLLECTIONS
- Designated Landmarks
- Forest Hills & Rego Park Aerials
- Forest Hills South
- Forest Hills Walking Tours
- Forest Hills: Austin St, Queens Blvd, & vicinity
- Forest Hills: Chatwick Gardens
- Forest Hills: Cord Meyer section
- Forest Hills: Stafford Lawns section
- Historic Blueprints & Promo Booklets for Forest Hills South
- Historic Blueprints & Promo Booklets for Forest Hills: Austin St, Queens Blvd, & Vicinity
- Historic Blueprints & Promo Booklets for Rego Park: Saunders St, 63rd Dr, Queens Blvd, & Vicinity
- Historic Blueprints & Promo Booklets: Cord Meyer Section, Forest Hills
- Historic Blueprints & Promo Booklets: Western Forest Hills & Eastern Rego Park
- Historic Businesses of Forest Hills & Rego Park: Ads, Signs, Matchcovers, etc
- Historic Maps: Forest Hills & Rego Park
- Mid-Century Modern & Art Deco
- Queens Beyond Forest Hills & Rego Park
- Queens Chamber of Commerce Books: Annual Building Awards & achievements
- Queens Preservation Events
- Queens Theaters
- Rego Park Cresents
- Rego Park: Saunders St, Queens Blvd, 63rd Dr area
- Sacred Sites
- State & National Register of Historic Places
- Tornado Aftermath (9/16/10)
Preservation, History, Community Websites
- **NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (Fill out an RFE form to propose Individual Landmarks & Historic Districts, the only citywide protective designation)
- **NYS Historic Preservation Office (Propose a property to the State & National Register of Historic Places via a form for historic recognition & funding for historically-sensitive restoration and repairs, & Tax credit programs)
- *Historic Districts Council (Citywide advocacy & events)
- *NY Landmarks Conservancy (Learn about funding programs for your property including Sacred Sites & the Conservancy's advocacy)
- 1939 World's Fair Reconstruction Project & Blog
- Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
- Central Queens Historical Association
- Cinema Treasures
- Committee To Save The Trylon Theater
- Docomomo NY/Tri-State
- Docomomo US
- Flushing Meadows Corona Park World's Fair Association
- Forest Hills Club (featuring Famous Forest Hillians)
- Forgotten-NY
- Friends of Station Square
- Friends of The Ridgewood Theatre
- Friends of The RKO Keith's Flushing Theatre
- Kew Gardens History
- League of Historic American Theatres
- Municipal Art Society of NY (Urban planning, preservation, & events)
- National Trust For Historic Preservation
- NY Restoration Project (Trees & Greening)
- Preservation Action (National grassroots lobby)
- Recent Past Preservation Network
- Rego-Forest Preservation Council
- Richmond Hill Historical Society
- Save The Flushing RKO Keith's
- Save The RKO Keith's Flushing
- Society for Commercial Archaeology
- Theatre Historical Society of America
- Trust For Architectural Easements
Research Venues
- *Rego-Forest Preservation Council Online Photo Collection
- *State & National Register of Historic Places/State Historic Preservation Office Online Research
- Landmark Designation Reports via Neighborhood Preservation Center & NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission collaboration
- Library of Congress, American Memory
- Metropolitan Postcard Club
- Municipal Archives/NYC Dept of Records
- Museum of The City of NY
- Neighborhood Preservation Center
- NY Historical Society
- NY Public Library Digital Gallery
- NY Public Library, Humanities & Social Sciences Library
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission - Records Access Request form via Freedom Of Information Law
- Queens Dept of Buildings, Old Records Room (Scroll down to Queens section in Landmarks Preservation Commission's guide to research)
- Queens Historical Society
- Queens Library's Central Library, Long Island Division
Noteworthy Preservation & Community Blogs
- Cinema Treasures
- Edge of The City: A Forest Hills, NY Blog
- Envisioning The Queens Highline
- Forest Hills Gardens Blog
- Historic Districts Council Newsstand
- Jeremiah's Vanishing NY
- Long Island & NYC Places That Are No More
- Lost City
- Mid-Century Mundane
- Old Elmhurst
- Queens Crap
- Save The LIC Millstones!
- Staten Island Treasure Blog
- Untapped NY
Noteworthy Facebook Groups
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