LW! e-newsletter
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March 4, 2010
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West-Park Presbyterian Church:
City Planning Commission
Vote Scheduled |
First, on January 12, 2010, after 20 years of community advocacy, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted unanimously in favor of designating West-Park Presbyterian Church an official NYC Individual Landmark.
Next, on Wednesday, March 10, the City Planning Commission will take its vote, bringing West-Park one step closer to the last and final step on the road to landmarking: a public hearing before the City Council (date to be determined). |
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NOW is the time! Send your letters of support!
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Contact your elected officials!
(send us a copy!)
Hon. Gale A. Brewer Hon. Christine Quinn LANDMARK WEST!
NYC Council Member NYC Council Speaker 45 West 67th Street
563 Columbus Avenue 224 West 30th St., Suite 1206 New York, NY 10023
New York, NY 10024 New York, NY 10001 Phone: (212) 496-8110
Phone: (212) 873-0282 Phone: (212) 564-7757 Fax: (212) 875-0209
gbrewer@council.nyc.gov
Their support can foster cooperation and generate solutions! Use
the "Forward email" link at the end of this email and send it on to your family, friends and
neighbors. With your help to inform others, the community's voice at
the City Council will be loud and clear: affirm the LPC designation and
make West-Park Presbyterian Church a full-fledged NYC Individual
Landmark!
Tremendous thanks to City Council Member Gale Brewer! Council Member Brewer, whose district includes West-Park, strongly supports the landmark designation. Her leadership has been crucial in achieving LPC action for the church. She needs all of our support to secure City Council approval of West-Park's landmark status. Please write, call or email Council Member Brewer to thank her and let her know you're behind her 100% (contact info below!).
**IMPORTANT** For letters and emails, please send a blind-carbon copy (bcc) to landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org, and we'll make sure copies get to each and every City Council member (51 in total).
In addition to Council Member Gale Brewer, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn needs to hear from you, too! She is an integral part of the City Council's role in the designation process.
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 Here, a sample letter that you can use as-is or, better yet, customize to capture your personal viewpoint.
The full City Council will vote to affirm the LPC's designation of West-Park, so please make sure to write, email or call your own local Council Member as well. Find your local City Council Member's contact information here, then please use the sample letter above to show your support. A short-and-sweet note is all it takes! Again, please send a blind-carbon copy (bcc) to LW! and we'll make sure copies get to all 51 members of the City Council.
**Read Council Member Brewer's letter of support for West-Park's designation -- along with those of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, State Senator Eric Schneiderman, Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal, and State Senator Bill Perkins -- on the West-Park webpage.
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Preserving Morningside Heights
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The Committee to Preserve the Morningside Brownstones needs your help!
Neighbors of 408-412
West 115th Street have galvanized to save these historic row houses (pictured at right circa 1940) from demolition.
While 408-412 West 115th Street, designed by architect John Brandt and constructed in 1898, lie outside of LW's usual geographical purview (59th
to 110th Street, Central Park to Riverside Park), they are found
inside the boundaries of the proposed Morningside Heights Historic
District. As strong supporters of a
historic district celebrating this uptown neighborhood, referred to in its
late-19th-century infancy as "the Acropolis of the new world," LW!
asks you to add your name to the growing roster of those who are urging the Landmarks Preservation Commission to schedule a public hearing to consider the proposed Morningside Heights Historic District.
Sing the petition here!
The impending destruction of these three brownstone structures is
symptomatic of the current shocking lack of protection of this deserving
neighborhood.
The loss of 408-412
West 115th Street would be, as
Assemblymember Daniel J. O'Donnell has said, "a glaring example of the Landmark
Preservation Commission's inaction."
To protect these row houses and the many other landmark-worthy
buildings in the proposed Morningside Heights Historic District, we must act now! |
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