Thirty items including parts of the Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, the iconic PepsiCola sign in Queens, and the Bergdorf Goodman building on Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan will be considered for landmark status by the end of the year.

On Tuesday, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission deliberated on 95 items that been backlogged over a fifty year period. The commission chose to either prioritize items for designation by year's end; issue a no action designation, which means that items were removed from the calendar for now but can added back to it at a later time without prejudice; or remove the item from consideration completely on grounds that it now lacked merit.

Breaking it down by borough, two items were considered for landmarking in the Bronx, six in Brooklyn, three inQueens, seven on Staten Island, and 12 in Manhattan.

Only five items were completely removed from consideration, and four of them happened to be on Staten Island.

Among the notable items that were postponed included Union Square Park, seven theaters along 42nd Street, and the Sailor's Snug Harbor Historic District on Staten Island.

Commissioners argued that Union Square has been renovated several times since it first opened in 1839, and that it retains almost nothing of the original design. One of the commissioners however argued that it should be designated solely because of its cultural significance to the city. In the end commissioners decided to postpone the debate on the matter.

When it came to the theaters, the commissioners argued that the organization, New 42nd Street, was already in charge of maintaining