Well folks, pretty soon the entire Upper West Side will be landmarked, along with the entire Upper East Side and Greenwich Village. For some reason, the privileged don't want art crappo invading their neighborhoods. But it's perfectly acceptable and even encouraged in your backyard. Ask your council member why today.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
More of Upper West Side to be designated
Well folks, pretty soon the entire Upper West Side will be landmarked, along with the entire Upper East Side and Greenwich Village. For some reason, the privileged don't want art crappo invading their neighborhoods. But it's perfectly acceptable and even encouraged in your backyard. Ask your council member why today.
8 comments:
Face it - the Landmarks Law is discriminatory and for most of NYC, doesn't exist.
So why should it be on the books?
My Councilmember, Jim Gennaro, does not answer my letters. He got reelected unopposed, so why should he answer to us?
"Priveleged" is the key, for sure. But don't worry, all of NYC will eventually be Park Slopeas the Slope boundaries expand to meet realtors' needs it will eventually take over our city - except the parts left to Williamsburg.
Broadway, Manhattan gets taken care of while Broadway, Flushing gets screwed by the LPC!
Thank you Bob Tierney, Mary Beth Betts and Michael R. Bloomberg.
We can wait until Mike's term is over, then we'll reapply for historic district status in deserving Broadway/Flushing.
We don't get blown off that easily
Mr. Mayor!
The only way we can get satisfaction is to throw the privileged into the same pot as the rest of us.
The civic community of Queens simply lacks the vision and backbone to do anything but ineffectually grumble - something peasants have done for millennia.
But forcing those with some juice and backbone to support us will be the only way we can make progress.
Believe me, if the Brooklyn and Manhattan folks suddenly faced the world of Queens things would change very very fast.
The law could easily be challenged in that its enforcement is not equitable - lower economic status and immigrant and non-white communities are not getting their fair share of public monies.
We can wait until Mike's term is over, then we'll reapply for historic district status in deserving Broadway/Flushing.
ITS NOT MIKE AS MUCH AS CITY COUNCIL AND SINCE WE NEVER NEVER TAKE THEM TO TASK YOU CAN FORGETTABOOUTIT.
According to the article:
Mr. Tierney said that the commission doesn't always get it right the first time when crafting historic-district boundaries. While a neighborhood may not have undergone a wholesale change, the opinions of commission members about what makes the neighborhood historic can differ from their predecessors."These things can be revisited," he said.
My response:
One Landmarks Commission's rejection may be another commission's treasure, so we mustn't abandon hope. Research and submit material now in full-force, and then keep pursuing it when new faces are on the Commission. Hopefully, they will be people who come from the boroughs and think like us. Let's recruit them, and submit a nomination to our future mayor.
Myth
One Landmarks Commission's rejection may be another commission's treasure, so we mustn't abandon hope. Research and submit material now in full-force, and then keep pursuing it when new faces are on the Commission. Hopefully, they will be people who come from the boroughs and think like us. Let's recruit them, and submit a nomination to our future mayor.
Reality
As soon as the developers hear about your efforts they alight upon the community like locusts. Your electeds will do everything they can to spread rumors on the evils of preserving the community (or be a big help and 'sit on the fence'.) The bottom line is you would be lucky to have a tattered fabric left at the end of a couple of terms - which is justification not to landmark because 'too much of the fabric is gone.'
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