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Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Annual Report 2009–2010 GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION ANNUAL REPORT 2009–2010 GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION NONPROFIT ORG. 232 East 11th Street, New York, NY 10003 U.S. POSTAGE 212.475.9585 www.gvshp.org PAID NEW YORK, NY PERMIT NO. 3509 Board & Staff Table of Contents 2009–2010 President: Executive Director: 2 A Note from the President Arbie Thalacker Andrew Berman 3 Nominating Committee 3 Archives Committee Vice Presidents: Director of Administration: 4 Education Committee Arthur Levin & Linda Yowell Drew Durniak 4 Preservation Committee Secretary/Treasurer: Director of Preservation & Research: 7 Awards Committee Katherine Schoonover Elizabeth Finkelstein 8 Benefit Committee 9 Program Committee Trustees: Program and Administrative Associate: 11 Development/Membership Committee Mary Ann Arisman, John Bacon, Penelope Dana Schulz 14 Finance Committee 16 Bareau, Kate Bostock Shefferman, Elizabeth 15 GVSHP Fiscal Year 2009 Ely, Cassie Glover, Leslie Mason, Ruth McCoy, Senior Director of Operations: Florent Morellet, Vals Osborne, Andrew S. Sheryl Woodruff 15 Support Preservation: Join GVSHP Paul, Cynthia Penney, Robert Rogers, Jonathan 16 Board & Staff Russo, Judith Stonehill, Fred Wistow, F. Anthony Zunino III Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation 232 East 11th Street New York, NY 10003 GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION ANNUAL REPORT Phone: 212.475.9585 fax: 212.475.9582 2009–2010 www.gvshp.org A Note from the President • Securing landmark designation of the first • Leading the fight against zoning variances neighborhoods, and the pressing preservation Archives Committee phase of our proposed South Village Historic for an extra-large glass high-rise in the issues they face Arbie Thalacker Martica Sawin Fitch, Chair District, making the Greenwich Village Meatpacking District, resulting in the plans • Continuing a three year project to exhaus- Members: Mary Ann Arisman, Jay Shockley, GVSHP’s thirtieth anniversary year has been Historic District far and away the city’s larg- being significantly reduced tively research the history of the East Cas Stachelberg, Judith Stonehill, George momentous. While we have exciting events this est landmark district Vellonakis, Vicki Weiner, Anthony Wood • Staging one of our largest and most success- Village, to lay the groundwork for proposing fall to look forward to, including an evening with • Getting the city to move ahead with rezoning ful house tours ever, highlighting a half-dozen comprehensive landmark and historic district Malcolm Gladwell and a loft tour of Westbeth, This past year, GVSHP’s Preservation Archive of parts of the Far West Village and the 3rd unique homes in the West Village designations the last twelve months have been no less and Oral History Project completed and made significant. Some highlights include: and 4th Avenue corridors in the East Village, available through the GVSHP website seven oral Through these challenging economic times, GVSHP staffer Corey Fabian Borenstein introduces to prevent hotel and dorm overdevelopment • Helping to secure the removal of dozens the Society has not slowed in its commitment Michele Mitchell at our Lorraine Hansberry lecture. histories from the Westbeth State and National of illegal billboards throughout our to educate about the special architectural and Photo credit Bob Estremera. Registers Proposal Project, which documents • Honoring the businesses, institutions, and neighborhoods cultural heritage of the Village, East Village, and the story of those who played a crucial role individuals which make our neighborhoods so NoHo, and to advocate for their preservation. in the development of the first large-scale special at our Annual Village Awards in front • Securing a hearing on our proposed landmark Members also elected candidate Kate Bostock I would like the thank GVSHP’s dedicated trust- artists housing in the country. Access to these of hundreds of neighbors designation of the East Village’s Russian Shefferman to the Board for a three-year term. 2 ees, staff, and members for their continued transcripts and audio clips, along with the ten 3 Orthodox Cathedral Ms. Bostock Shefferman holds an MBA from strong support throughout this past year. preservation pioneer oral histories already • Helping to get the New School to dramatically Duke University and has worked for Inside available online, has been quite active, with scale back their construction plans at 13th • Working towards preservation of the 1906 Edition and AppleVision. Kate has served on over 3,000 visitors to the oral history web Street and 5th Avenue former Fire Patrol House #2 on West 3rd the Benefit Committee, assisting as Volunteer pages in the past year. Many visitors also took Street and the last remaining tenement Coordinator for the Annual House Tour for the time to download transcripts and listen • Leading the evolving response to the massive synagogue in the East Village by securing Nominating Committee the last two years. She recently joined the to available excerpts of the recorded audio. NYU 20-year expansion plan determinations of eligibility for the State and Mary Ann Arisman, Chair Society’s Development/Membership Committee GVSHP continued to field regular requests for National Register of Historic Places Members: Elizabeth Ely, Arthur Levin, Andrew and is co-chairing GVSHP’s 30th Anniversary research assistance and access to the archives • Pushing for landmark designation of Paul, Judith Stonehill, Arbie Thalacker, Linda event this year. over the past year from members of the public, Westbeth, which received a hearing in January • Continuing to expand our children’s education Yowell, F. Anthony Zunino researchers, academics, and students. In program, reaching wider audiences with new The nominating committee, along with the September 2010, GVSHP will launch an exhibit • Launching a first-of-its kind ‘Landmarks materials and curricula At GVSHP’s Annual Meeting on June 7, members GVSHP Vice-President Art Levin led the 20th Annual Applications Webpage,’ allowing the public to re-elected Trustees John Bacon, Penelope entire board, would like to thank Tom Harney of photographs from the GVSHP photograph GVSHP Village Awards and Annual Meeting. view every public hearing landmark applica- • Holding a record number of programs on Bareau, Cynthia Penney, Katherine Schoonover, and Peter Mullan for their years of service on collection called Snapshots in Storefronts. Photo credit Bob Estremera. tion in our neighborhood the history, culture, and architecture of our and Arbie Thalacker to serve a three-year term. GVSHP’s Board of Trustees. Curated images from GVSHP’s collection will appear in some of our neighborhood’s most students from Lower East Side schools, reaching appropriate, expanded, and that new develop- Specifically, the committee has objected to beloved small business storefronts. GVSHP four fourth grade classrooms. ment is compatible in scale, character, and NYU’s unprecedented plans for a 385 ft. tall recently completed a project that catalogued design with its surroundings. tower (the tallest ever erected in the Village) and scanned in high resolution all the images in Finally, GVSHP welcomed our newest educator, within the landmarked Silver Towers complex; the Landmark designation of the entire South the collection, with each image entered into a Paul Kaplan, to the program this year. Paul was a proposed transfer of city-owned open space and Village, as formally proposed by GVSHP in 2006, custom database that includes copyright infor- founding member of the architecture education parks to NYU; the proposed lifting of zoning pro- remained a top priority for the committee. mation and a description of each photograph. program Learning By Design:NY at the Center tections which require the maintenance of open Significant progress was made in June when for Architecture Foundation and was a regional space; and the changing of zoning in residential the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted director of arts instruction for New York City areas to commercial zoning in order to facilitate to designate the first third of our proposed schools. In addition to teaching for GVSHP, Paul the development of a large hotel. At the commit- South Village Historic District as a 12-block, Education Committee also is a field supervisor for student teachers tee’s direction, GVSHP was extremely active in 235-building extension of the existing Greenwich at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Paul calling for NYU to consider alternatives such as Linda Yowell, Chair Village Historic District, making the Greenwich joins our veteran educators Jane Cowan and the Financial District for their proposed growth Members: Mary Ann Arisman, Elissa Burke, Lisa Village Historic District far and away the largest Mary Kay Judy. through the Borough President’s Community Task Feitel, Sherry Froman, Judith Langer, Leslie in New York City. However, the city has not yet 4 Force on NYU Development, of which GVSHP was 5 Mason, Barbara Schneider, Ron Schneider, The scope and reach of GVSHP’s children’s education committed to a time frame or any particulars for GVSHP’s walking tour “Women Movers and Shakers program continued to expand in 2009-2010. a part. After the Borough President suspended of the East Village.” Shirley Wright consideration of the remaining two-thirds of our Photo credit Bob Estremera. the Task Force, GVSHP formed a coalition of Teachers: Jane Cowan, Paul Kaplan, Mary Kay Preservation Committee proposed South Village Historic
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