Critical Mass Needed to Pass "Landmarks Hearing" Bill

Preservationists UNITE! Important Opportunity to Demonstrate Strength of New York's Preservation Community
Crucial Public Hearing on Landmarks Bill - Don't Be Overlooked, Make Your Voice Heard!

**Please pass this email on to your neighbors and fellow preservationists!**

On Monday, November 14, starting at 11:00 AM at City Hall (the Committee Room adjacent to the main Council chambers) the City Council's Landmarks Subcommittee will hold a public hearing on Intro. 705, the "Landmarks Hearing" bill. This legislation responds to outcry from communities in all five boroughs who have lost, or may lose, buildings due to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's (LPC's) failure to hold public designation hearings. Enough is enough - it's time to stem the tide. Unless we act now, how many more buildings will be doomed through LPC inaction?

Meanwhile, keep your eyes on the 2 Columbus Circle "Shame Cam" (go to www.landmarkwest.org). Now that the election is over, the destruction has begun. Scaffolding continues to go up, and marble chunks begin to fall. Your support of Intro. 705 can help stop this from happening again and again. The time is now!

The text of Intro 705 is available online (http://www.nyccouncil.info/issues/intros_act.cfm?intro=Int%200705%2D2005.) Below is the list of organizations (over 50) that have endorsed this legislation as members of the "Citizens for a Responsive Landmarks Law." Also below is a list of council members that have signed on to the bill as co-sponsors - is your council member on this list? If not, please call, email or fax them to show your support for passing this law - and soon! (A complete list of council members, their districts and contact information is available at www.nyccouncil.info.) Landmarks Subcommittee Chair Simcha Felder (felder@council.nyc.ny.us) and Land Use Chair Melinda Katz (katz@council.nyc.ny.us) are particularly key. Attached is a sample letter for inspiration.

Numbers matter. Even if you don't plan to speak, please plan to attend on Monday, 11/14 at 11:00 AM at City Hall.

Citizens for a Responsive Landmarks Law

MULTIBOROUGH
Art Deco Society of New York
Brownstone Revival Coalition
DOCOMOMO US—NY/Tri-State Chapter
The Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct
Four Boroughs Neighborhood Preservation Alliance
Historic Districts Council
Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America
Modern Architecuture Working Group
The Roebling Chapter, Society for Industrial Archeology, Inc.
Society for the Architecture of the City
Women’s City Club of New York

BRONX
Riverdale Historic District
Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct

BROOKLYN
Bay Ridge Conservancy
Clinton Hill Association
Council Member Vincent Gentile's Preservation Committee
Crown Heights North Association
Ditmas Park Association
Ditmas Park West Neighborhood Association
Fort Greene Association
Prospect Park South Association
Senator Street Historic District
Society for Clinton Hill
Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities

MANHATTAN
10th and Stuyvesant Streets Block Association
Association of Neighbors on the Upper East Side
CIVITAS
Clinton Special District Coalition
Coalition for a Livable West Side
Committee for Environmentally Sound Development
Community Board 9
Defenders of the Historic Upper East Side
The Drive to Protect the Ladies’ Mile District
East 78th Street Block Assoc. Park/Lex>East Harlem Historical Organization
The East Village Community Coalition
Flatiron Alliance
Gramercy Neighborhood Associates
Greenwich Village Community Task Force
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
Hamilton Heights- West Harlem Community Preservation Organization
Harlem Preservation Foundation
Historic Neighborhood Enhancement Alliance
The HDFC Council
LANDMARK WEST!
Manhattan-Ville Heritage Society
Murray Hill Neighborhood Association
NoHo Neighborhood Association
Roosevelt Island Historical Society
St. Agnes Apartments Board
Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood Assoc.
Tribeca Community Association
Turtle Bay Association
Union Square Community Coalition
West 15th Street 200 Block Association
West 45th Street Block Association
West 122nd Street Block Association
WestSide Heights Citizens League

QUEENS
Beachside Bungalow Preservation Association
Douglaston Little Neck Historical Society
Jackson Heights Beautification Group
Jackson Heights Garden City Society
Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association
Parkway Village Historical Society
Richmond Hill Historical Society
Queens Civic Congress

STATEN ISLAND
North Shore Waterfront Greenbelt
Preservation League of Staten Island
West Brighton Restoration Society

INTRO. 705 CITY COUNCIL CO-SPONSORS: Is your council member on this list?

BRONX
Larry B. Seabrook
Annabel Palma
G. Oliver Koppel

BROOKLYN
Charles Barron
Bill de Blasio
Yvette D. Clark
Lewis A. Fidler
Vincent J. Gentile
Letitia James
Kendall Stewart
David Yassky

MANHATTAN
Gale A. Brewer
Alan J. Gerson
Robert Jackson
Margarita Lopez
Eva Moskowitz
Bill Perkins
Philip Reed

QUEENS
Joseph P. Addabo ,Jr.
James F. Gennaro
John C. Liu R>James Sanders, Jr.

BOROUGH HISTORIANS
Ron Schweiger (Brooklyn)
Stanley Cogan (Queens)
Richard Dickenson (Staten Island)