The Landmarks Preservation Commission held an "informational" meeting yesterday at P.S. 75 at 735 West End Avenue on its plan to expand five historic districts on West End Avenue and "stitch them together into one super district."

An article by Joey today at ny.curbed.com noted that the "draft" of the proposed "super" district was "even bigger than what preservationists were dreaming of" and would encompass about 745 more buildings than are now in existing historic districts along the stretch between 70th and 109th Streets.

"Led by a group called the West End Preservation Society," the article said that some preservationists have been pushing hard for a district that would protect all of West End Avenue from 70th to 109th Street and "remarkably, the new district boundaries included not only the WEPS proposal but was expanded, by the LPC, to include the neighboring avenues of Riverside Drive, many blocks of the west side of Broadway and cross streets stretching from Riverside to Broadway.

The next step is for the commission to "calendar" the proposal and hold public hearings. No date has yet been set for the calendaring.

The proposal is a very significant expansion of historic district protection on the Upper West Side as it now includes all of Riverside Drive from 71st to 111th Street, all of West End Avenue from 70th to 109th Street and the west side of Broadway from 75th to 76th Streets, from 77th to the north side of 79th Streets, from 80th to 81st Streets, from 82nd to 85th Streets, from the south side of 98th to the south side of 99th Streets and from 100th to the north side of 104th Street and from 105th to 107th Streets, all of the side-streets between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue, and most of the side-streets between West End Avenue and Broadway.