The New York Landmarks Conservancy announced the winners of the 2025 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards, the conservancy’s highest honors for excellence in preservation. The Award recipients demonstrate outstanding and challenging preservation projects that occur throughout the City. The awards recognize individuals, organizations, and building owners for their extraordinary contributions to the City.
“The ‘Lucy’s’ celebrate amazing preservation projects from throughout the City that might otherwise remain unheralded,” said Peg Breen, president of The New York Landmarks Conservancy. “It’s a lively evening showcasing the vision, determination and love people have for their historic properties.”
The 2025 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Project Award recipients include: 7 South Portland Ave., Brooklyn; 1450 Pacific St., Brooklyn; Brooklyn Bridge; Edward Mooney House; The General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen of the City of New York; National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York; The New Victory Theater; New York City Housing Authority Exodus and Dance Frieze at Kingsborough Houses, Harlem River Houses and Nivola Horses at Stephen Wise Towers; New York Stock Exchange; Palace Theatre; Powell Building; the Shubert and Booth Theatres; Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Arch; St. Raphael Roman Catholic Church and The Twenty Two.
Susan Olsen will receive the 2025 Preservation Leadership Award in honor of her lifetime of work in cultural resource management and preservation education. She has served as director of historical services at Woodlawn Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark, for 22 years. Ann-Isabel Friedman will receive the 2025 Special Award for Preservation Service in honor of her career in preservation and over two decades of service as The New York Landmarks Conservancy’s director of the sacred sites program.
