"We've not yet determined that this building rises to the level of being an individual landmark," she added.

Rather than approach the Civic Center as a historic district, the commission has focused instead on individual landmarks.

Since that time, there have been relatively few designations of churches as individual landmarks.

India House was designated an individual landmark in 1965.

Since the commission designates, on average, 4 new districts and 12 individual landmarks each year, a growing number of residents are subject to its rules.

These, however, make up only a small fraction of the city's 1,021 individual landmarks and 66 historic districts.

However, at that time, the commission considered 17 buildings in the currently proposed district as possible individual landmarks.

How does it relate to the individual landmark?

Today the commission aims to designate 16 individual landmarks and historic districts per year.

"We've got a full plate here of potential districts and individual landmarks that are not in Manhattan."