Overview
- The Landmarks Preservation Commission, which voted Tuesday after last month's public hearing, designated the P.S. 15 Annex, the Church of Saint Mary, and the Lithuanian Alliance Building as individual city landmarks.
- The P.S. 15 Annex in Downtown Brooklyn, a Romanesque Revival 1889 school that later housed the Khalil Gibran International Academy, will be preserved and adaptively reused within Alloy’s plan for new housing and two public schools.
- The Church of Saint Mary on the Lower East Side, completed in 1833 as the area’s first Roman Catholic church building, once anchored Irish Catholic life and today serves a largely Spanish-speaking congregation.
- The Lithuanian Alliance Building in Chelsea has served as the Alliance’s headquarters since 1910 and also holds a 2022 National Register of Historic Places listing following earlier restoration work.
- City officials framed the decision as honoring immigrant-built institutions, with LPC leadership calling the sites tangible links to communities that established roots across New York.