LamartineChelsea

My blogs

Industry	Architecture
Occupation	Boulevardier/Flanneur
Location	Chelsea,Manhattan,NYC,10011, NYC!!!, United States
Introduction	..just another one of those "loony historic preservationists" devoted to lost causes..!
Interests	Preserving the "Lamartine Blocks".W29thSt&W3othSt between 8th and 9th Avenuse. Northern fringe of Manhattans Chelsea neighborhod, NCY.
Favorite Movies	"The Lamrtine Blocks: The Real Untold Story"...a yet to be realized landmark documentary or melodrama..
Favorite Music	....anti slavery songs and Negro spirituals of 19th Cen
Favorite Books	Um..er..anything by Alphonse De Lamartine of course! Also: Before Harlem:The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I Marcy S. Sacks University of Pennsylvania Press 2006 Johnson, James Weldon. Black Manhattan. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1930. “The Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons as Told Chiefly Through Her Correspondence, ” By Sarah Gibbons Emerson (1896)

Why havn't these two blocks been declared a protected Historic District ?