If the area were declared a historic district, a restaurateur like Mr. Engelhardt would have had to seek permission from the preservation commission before painting over the lettering.
He said there were other buildings of historic interest in Locust Valley and that the association was seeking to have the entire area declared a historic district "rather than having to go from one battle to the next".
It does not hurt that the southern corridor of the Grand Concourse between 153rd and 167th Streets was declared a historic district last year, or that the city has fixed up the Concourse's roadways and nearby parks, like Joyce Kilmer Park, named after the young poet who wrote the classic "Trees".
The zek engineers and builders who made the hand-constructed bridges should be recognized and their photographs placed on monuments beside the road, and the whole Topolinskaya Highway, for all its hundred and eighty-nine kilometres, should be declared a historic district, and the graves, of which there may be many, should be found and marked and given requiem.
Declared a historic district in 1970, the row house-lined neighborhood has served as a backdrop for former Baltimore Sun writer Laura Lipmann's mysteries.
This year, for the first time, Austin has been declared a "property rich" district, which means it has to give away $26 million in revenues to poorer districts in the state, and to forgo $22 million in financing that it formerly received.
Mr. Morellet was a prime mover in having the Gansevoort Market declared a New York City historic district in 2003.
Many buildings have been renovated and cleaned, and 85percentt of the town was declared a national historic district.
In fact, the Greater Wildwood Hotel Motel Association met recently to decide how to have the motel strip declared a national historic district.
