"Designated Landmarks
Deterring demolition"
http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/longislandlife/ny-heback4063422dec05,0,171446,print.story?coll=ny-lilife-print
An interesting preservation article appeared in Newsday Dec. 5, 2004
about new penalties for demolition, up to and including the total
value, passed on Long Island and proposed for New York City.
Previously, people could avoid monetary penalties that haven't been
changed in decades and an unscrupulous developer could just pay the
fine out of court and move on. An interesting article and problem.
Maybe this would be one:
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space
A similar case occurred in the early 1980's. The building and its
elements were found "not architecturally significant" but the
community, who had named the theater, did.
George Myers