PARK SLOPE — The final resting spot for legions of famed New Yorkers and a neighborhood church are among nearly 100 sites that will be considered for landmarking Tuesday.
The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold a special public meeting to address a backlog of 95 historic spots that have been in landmarks limbo for decades, including Green-Wood Cemetery — where composer Leonard Bernstein and 19th century political operative "Boss Tweed" are buried — and St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church on Sixth Avenue and Sterling Place.
The LPC can vote one of three ways for each site Tuesday, according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Sites will either be put on a fast track to be considered for landmark status, or they'll be removed from the list of possible sites but given a chance to come back later, or they'll be put on a list "not to designate," which means the LPC doesn't think the spot is landmark-worthy, the Daily Eagle reported.
Officials at Green-Wood have said they're not interested in landmark status for the storied graveyard because it could ensnare the cemetery in red tape. Cemetery president Richard Moylan told the Brooklyn Paper in 2014 that landmarking Green-Wood "would impose onerous, expensive, and impractical restrictions on our ability to function as an active cemetery."
Other sites on Tuesday's do-or-die list include the Pepsi-Cola sign in Long Island City, St. Michael's Church on the Upper West Side and Union Square Park, which has been awaiting landmark designation for 45 years.
St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Park Slope was one of the first buildings in New York to be considered for landmarking back in the mid 1960s, after the destruction of Penn Station ushered in a frenzy of preservation, according to the church's website.
The LPC, then a newly formed city panel, declined to vote on the landmarking after the Diocese of Brooklyn "vigorously protested" the designation, the church's website states.
The city floated plans to address its landmarking backlog by removing sites from its list in 2014, but reversed course after DNAinfo New York broke the news and public outcry ensued.
