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program updatesCorbin BuildingSpared by MTAPreservationists scored a decisive victoryin October when the MetropolitanTransportation Authority (MTA) announcedthat it would preserve the Corbin Buildingin Lower Manhattan. The MTA intendsto incorporate the Corbin into the $750million Fulton Transit Center.The campaign to save architect FrancisHatch Kimball’s rugged Romanesquestructure was waged by the Conservancy asa part of the Lower Manhattan EmergencyPreservation Fund. As part of its campaign,the Fund retained two experts: structuralengineer Robert Silman and architecturalhistorian Andrew Scott Dolkart, whoprepared historical documentation. Thisled to the property being formally listed inthe State and National Registers of HistoricA forerunner of modernskyscrapers, the CorbinBuilding has stood at thenortheast corner of JohnStreet and Broadwayin Lower Manhattansince 1889.Places in October. This listing ensures that the MTA will consult with theState Historic Preservation Officer about its redevelopment plans and seekto mitigate any adverse impacts on historic resources.© 2003 Walter DufresneTSC Goes UndergroundThe Technical Services Center is advising New York Transit Authority(TA) on the planned rehabilitation of the City Hall IRT Station. Openedin 1904 as the first IRT station, it was once a showpiece of the subwaysystem. The station has been closed to the public for decades. In the past,several proposals were considered to re-open it to the public as a museumspace, but they were shelved by security concerns. The station is partiallylocated under City Hall. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of theIRT, the TA is moving forward with the restoration of the leaded glassskylights, which are in very poor condition. TSC has been consulting onspecifications and plans for recording and restoring the nine leaded glasspanels and recreating onemissing oculus skylight,based on original drawings.The City Hall IRT Stationfeatures polychromaticGuastavino arches and aseries of very ornate, leadedglassskylights designed tobring in natural light.2