WESTBETH ARTISTS HOUSING declared a NYC Landmark today 25 Oct 2011 by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission! Read all about it here.

Westbeth Music Festival and Building montage. C Maile

Today, 25 October 2011, the NYC Landmarks Preservation
Commission unanimously designated the famed Westbeth
Artists Housing a New York City Landmark.
This caps a 7 year effort by the Greenwich Village
Society for Historical Preservation.
Read what Andrew Berman. Executive Director of GVSHP,
and Geo Cominskie, President of Westbeth Artists Residents
Councilhave to say about this momentous occasion both for
Westbeth artists and for the city.

Check out the links below:

Westbeth Landmarked by NYC Landmarks Commission

Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation on Westbeth