You are invited to spend Advent & Christmas with
Historic St. Peter’s Chelsea
“The Christmas Church”
ADVENT & CHRISTMAS SERVICES
Sunday, December 2, 2018,
Advent 1
10:00am Holy Eucharist
6:00pm Evening Prayer
Saturday, December 8, 2018
5:00pm-8:00pm Join us for our
Christmas Tree lighting, carols,
refreshments
Sunday, December 9, 2018,
Advent 2
10:00am Holy Eucharist
6:00pm Evening Prayer
Sunday, December 16, 2018,
Advent 3
10:00am Holy Eucharist
6:00pm Chelsea Community Church
44th Annual Candlelight Carol Service
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
7:00pm Refl ections on the Magnifi cat
evening of prayer, refl ection, meditation
Sunday, December 23, 2018,
Advent 4
10:00am Advent Lessons & Carols
Monday, December 24, 2018,
Christmas Eve
7:30pm Christmas Carols
8:00pm Christmas Eucharist
Tuesday, December 25, 2018,
Christmas Day
10:00am Christmas Eucharist
Sunday, December 30, 2018,
Christmas 1
10:00am Holy Eucharist
Sunday, January 6, 2019,
Epiphany
10:00am Holy Eucharist
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St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
346 W. 20th St. (btwn 8th & 9th Aves.)
212.929.2390 | stpeterschelsea.org
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Strand owner’s tale
on landmarking fight
BY SYDNEY PEREIRA
The owner of the Strand Book
Store is calling for the Landmarks
Preservation Commission
to scrap its plan to landmark her building,
warning the designation would
devastate the 91-year-old company.
The 11-story building, at 828 Broadway,
two blocks south of Union Square,
is under consideration for landmarking
along with six other buildings after an
uproar from preservationists about the
approval of a 21-story “Tech Hub” on
E. 14th St. between Third and Fourth
Aves.
But the Strand’s owner, Nancy Bass
Wyden, is fi ghting the designation to
protect the bookstore from the “bureaucratic
noose of the Landmarks Preservation
Commission,” as she described
it at a public hearing on Tuesday.
“We care deeply about the building,”
said Bass Wyden. Her father,
Fred Bass, who died in January, saved
money for decades to buy the building
— anticipating the bookstore would not
survive rising rents unless he owned
the building itself.
Landmarking would burden the
company with the extra process of getting
additional L.P.C. approvals for any
changes or upgrades needed for the
building, she said. It has already taken
nearly two years for the store to make
repairs after a manhole explosion right
outside of it in early 2017, she noted.
Since then, the Strand has replaced all
its front windows and front columns,
and restored the facade with its original
granite — which Bass Wyden said
L.P.C. has lauded them for doing.
“There’s an irony, right?” she said.
The L.P.C., which has been chaired
by Sarah Carroll since September, will
hold a second public hearing on the
Strand in January.
“The Landmarks Preservation Commission
will continue to work with the
owner of 826 Broadway, home to the
Strand Book Store, to address her concerns
and ensure that this cultural institution
endures,” the commission said
in a statement. “L.P.C. successfully regulates
thousands of commercial buildings
across the city and we are sympathetic
and responsive to their needs.”
An L.P.C. spokesperson countered
Bass Wyden’s argument, saying technical
expertise provided to building
owners is provided at no cost. The
spokesperson added that 95 percent of
L.P.C. permits can be processed within
10 days.
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