Landmarks boss Peg Breen makes case for both old and new – Real Estate Weekly

In New York City, only 3.4 percent of the city’s buildings are landmarked. That’s a shockingly small percentage given how often the battles between developers and landmark preservation advocates play out in the media. Peg Breen, the president of the New York Landmarks Conservancy, a nonprofit advocacy group founded in 1973, believes that statistic goes…