A new collaborative community project, Beacon’s West End Story, is compiling resources to tell the story of a neighborhood lost to Urban Renewal. The project lays the groundwork to better understand the city’s upheaval over the grand social engineering plans, which collided with the Civil Rights movement and uprooted people’s lives.
Jack Goldstein, a preservationist who in the 1980s reacted to the razing of several venerable Broadway theaters under a Times Square redevelopment plan by helping to organize a successful campaign to give landmark status to more than two dozen other theaters, died June 16 in Cold Spring, New York, in Putnam County. He was 74.