Rally to Save 264 E. 7th St. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Rally to Save 264 E. 7th St. / GVSHP
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| 説明 | Preservationists, Elected Officials, & East Villagers Protest Trend of City Allowing Demolition of “landmark eligible” Buildings, Call for Preservation of 264 East 7th Street and “Political Row”For the second time in two months, the City has reversed a prior determination and refused to protect a historic East Village siteFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Andrew Berman, Executive Director Andrew@gvshp.org, 917-533-1767New York – A powerful convergence of groups joined together today to protest the city’s refusal to landmark an East 7th Street building built in circa 1842-3 in the middle of the last remaining row of intact homes of that important era.These five buildings were ruled “landmark-eligible” by the city in 2008, and yet when they faced the threat of demolition and GVSHP urged they be protected, the city refused, claiming they no longer qualified for landmark status.What changed? Nothing about the buildings – the only difference is who the Mayor is and the direction of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.“The Landmarks Preservation Commission is allowing the demolition of a rare, beloved, and utterly surprising piece of our city’s history – a piece they themselves deemed worthy of landmark protection just eight years ago. It is outrageous that the city would allow this wonderful link to 19th century New York be destroyed, and doubly outrageous that they would go back on their word and their own evaluation. All they have to do is give these buildings their day in court, and hold a hearing on considering them for landmark district designation. We are confident that if they did the full Commission would vote to protect them. But the Chair, appointed by the Mayor, is refusing to do even that,” said Andrew Berman GVSHP Executive Director.In September, GVSHP and allied groups reached out the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission to urge them to landmark 264 East 7th Street, and the adjacent houses at 258, 260, 262, and 266 East 7th Street. Once part of what was known as “Political Row”, these five ca. 1842 houses, located between Avenues C and D, have rare and beautiful intact Greek Revival ornament, and are linked to the history of the early development of New York’s waterfront and to critical political figures of the 19th and early 20th century in New York.In spite of this fact, the Landmarks Preservation Commission recently responded saying they did not consider the buildings worthy of landmark designation. The LPC did admit that the buildings are “similar in age and style to those found in the Greenwich Village Historic District, East Village Historic District and others.”The LPC offered a specious excuse that it’s rare to designate a historic district covering just one side of the street, which is easily proven false. At the rally it was pointed out again that at least eight others are designated on one side of the street, with one, the East 10th Street Historic District, just a few blocks away. The examples given are in three different boroughs: East 17th/Irving Place, East 10th Street, Lamartine Place, Hardenburgh/Rhinelander, Henderson Place all in Manhattan, Perry Avenue in the Bronx and Ocean on the Park and Park Place Historic Districts in Brooklyn.At the rally it was pointed out that this was sadly not the first such failure by the agency that earlier this year also refused to landmark five 19th-century Beaux Arts tenements at 112-120 East 11th Street, between 3rd and 4th Avenues.Richard D. Moses, President of the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative said, “This historic building, in the middle of a wonderful and intact row of mid-19th century structures, are clearly deserving of landmark protection. It’s time that the city puts its residents, community history, and architectural treasures above developers’ profits, and step up to protect these and other unprotected historic buildings in the East Village now!” More of their work here www.lespi-nyc.orgOne small positive note was mentioned: due to the 2008 East Village rezoning which GVSHP and other groups fought for, the height of any new development on this block of East 7th Street is limited to 75 feet in height after setbacks. Previously there were NO height limits for new development on this block, a significant community victory achieved in the Bloomerg era.GVSHP was also joined by representatives of East Village Community Coalition www.evccnyc.orgBefore and at the rally the public was urged to write to the Mayor at a convenient webpage: www.gvshp.org/7thstreet with hundreds already sent. |
| 撮影日 | 2016-11-07 11:38:30 |
| 撮影者 | GVSHP |
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