Arts, Briefly: City Landmarks Named
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The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted on Tuesday to give landmark designation to Congregation Tifereth Israel (1911), believed to be the oldest structure in Queens built as a synagogue. EstÃ©e Lauder attended services there as a young woman, and in 1979 and 1980 Madonna lived nearby in a building that used to be a yeshiva affiliated with the congregation. The two-story, wood-frame synagogue, right, designed by Crescent L. Varrone, at 109-18 54th Avenue in Corona, combines Gothic and Moorish design elements with Judaic ornaments: pointed-arched windows, a roundel with a Star of David in colored glass, and a gabled parapet. The original wooden stoop and railing have been replaced with a brick porch with an iron railing, and the wood clapboard siding has been covered with stucco. The design was modeled after synagogues on the Lower East Side, where the founders of the congregation, established in 1907, had originally lived. In 2002 the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Also on Tuesday, the commission voted for a third time to designate the Jamaica Savings Bank building, an 1898 Hough & Duell Beaux-Arts structure at 161-02 Jamaica Avenue, in Jamaica, as a landmark. Twice previously, the commissionâs landmark designation for that building has been overturned: by the Board of Estimate in 1975, and by the City Council in 1992. The buildingâs owner has agreed to support the current designation, which is expected to meet with Council approval.
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By TOM DAYKIN  Two former blue-collar landmarks with old Milwaukee names, Pabst and Pfister & Vogel, will soon begin the slow, expensive transformation to new housing, offices and retail space - with city tax dollars helping to foot the bill.
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Art Blakey has been honored with a historical marker that will be placed at his boyhood home in the city's Hill District.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Consecutive nominations a first for Sheffield band  Â· Amy Winehouse is joint favourite on 12-strong list
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New York has recently witnessed the unveiling of nearly half a dozen major architectural landmarks, an abundance the city hasnât seen in decades.
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The Great Wall of China, Rome's Colosseum, India's Taj Mahal and three architectural marvels from Latin America were among the new seven wonders of the world chosen in a global poll released on Saturday.
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HAVANA - In the heart of Old Havana, at a corner of Plaza de Armas, probably the city&#39;s most beautiful ancient square, a plaque on a building on a street bearing the unlikely name O&#39;Reilly declares an unexpected affinity.
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History can help us keep faith in the public square in perspective.
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A small city of churches, festivals and big-time patent cases.
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The top spots offering a peek into the past.
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WE HAVE all seen Budapest in traditional-style guidebooks, photographed and displayed in exhibitions, shot from the air and the like, but one of the latest books published on the Hungarian capital looks at the ...
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Entertainment highlights during the week of Feb. 3-9:
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AGHAMORE will this week remember two natives of the parish who carved out names for themselves as major figures in the world of literature.
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Also in the Morning Buzz: a posthumous Medal of Honor for a Navy seal from Long Island, a landlord-tenant dispute at the Windermere in Hell's Kitchen and the impact on cargo carriers of falling water levels in the Great Lakes.
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By Carlos Moncada, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Jan. 30--ST. PETERSBURG -- When you think downtown St. Petersburg, the local powers-that-be would like you to think of a vibrant waterfront destination with trendy shops and restaurants, upscale residences and a lively arts scene.
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Slide show: Photographs taken in the New York region by Times photographers in the past week.
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Life & style: In pictures: Iconic images feature in a new retrospective photographic exhibition.