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Lost-But for My Own Files BOARD OF DIRECTORS Anthony C. Wood, Chair Elizabeth R. Jeffe, Vice-Chair William J. Cook, Vice-Chair Stephen Facey, Treasurer Lisa Ackerman, Secretary Daniel J. Allen Michele H. Bogart Matthew Owen Coody Susan De Vries Amy Freitag Shirley Ferguson Jenks Paul Onyx Lozito Richard J. Moylan Otis Pratt Pearsall Gina Pollara John T. Reddick Anthony W. Robins NEWSLETTER FALL/WINTER 2018 Welcome to the 29th edition of the newsletter of the New York Preservation Archive Project. The mission of the New York Preservation Archive Project is to protect and raise awareness of the narratives of historic preservation in New York. Through public programs, outreach, celebration, and the creation of public access to information, the Archive Project hopes to bring these stories to light. NYPAP’s board of directors and staff discuss the organization’s future during its first strategic planning retreat. | Courtesy of Dina Posner LostThe Importance-But of Paper For Hoarders, MyDumpster Own Divers, and Files Archivists By Anthony W. Robins, Archive Project Board Member Support Our Efforts 2018 Year End Appeal Anybody who conducts research on New historian stands a determined team of paper Watch your inbox for our year end appeal! Your York City buildings knows what a rich hoarders, dumpster divers, and archivists. financial support allows the Archive Project to body of material is available—thanks to the save important papers, conduct oral histories, city’s libraries, archives, and collections of I first experienced archival immersion at and tell the story of preservation in public records. Few cities can compete with the library of the Port Authority of New New York City. New York’s wealth of resources. But none York, haunting it for months in search of We could use your help to end 2018 with a bang and of those records would exist were it not material for a book on the original World make 2019 our best year yet! We’ll even accept year end for the determined souls who saved them Trade Center. In the PA’s library on the donations in early 2019 because, in the end... from destruction, and none would be of 55th floor of Tower One, I pored over early much use were it not for the librarians and plans and correspondence, papers related to You make our work happen! archivists and civil servants who collect and the evolution of the project and its design, sort and conserve the millions upon millions chronologies, “fact sheets,” hundreds If you would like to send a check or donate via of pages—and who help researchers find of magazine and newspaper clips, two credit card, please contact us at their way through it all. Behind every good fat volumes of the “World Trade Center (212) 988-8379. Page 1 Evaluation of Architectural Firms”—reams until being rescued. Theater architect file folders, forgotten them, and then in a fit and reams of invaluable material, without Herbert Krapp’s papers, now safely entrusted of downsizing discovered the value of their which that book couldn’t have been written. to the Shubert Archive, were once famously contents. My old papers from the 1970s, stored next to a movie theater’s ladies’ rest when I volunteered with Margot Gayle’s A cost-cutting Port Authority chairman later room. The Brooklyn Bridge drawings—the legendary Friends of Cast-Iron Architecture, closed the library and stored its contents in Brooklyn Bridge drawings!—languished in have now found a cozy nest in the library a sub-basement. A group of librarians had a carpentry shop beneath the Williamsburg of the New-York Historical Society, which planned to meet at the Center to divvy up Bridge until 1976, when they came under the is building an archive of materials related to the materials among various institutions, but protection of the New York City Municipal historic preservation in New York City. by chance postponed the meeting—which Archives. had been scheduled for September 11th, And that brings us to the New York 2001. Though the disaster destroyed the Many architects’ papers had long gathered Preservation Archive Project (NYPAP). The originals, some 600 pages of copies survived dust in vaults and warehouses, until key to this kind of work is to get it done while in my own files. It took some doing, but inevitable bouts of cost-cutting led to a riot there’s still time. Collect the papers before those pages are now scanned and posted on of dumpsters. Fortunately for architectural they’re shredded. Interview the key players my web site—a digital archive. historians, in 1973 a determined group while they’re still with us. It takes time, and founded COPAR, the Committee for the curiosity, and ingenuity, and determination, I discovered the New York Transit Museum’s Preservation of Architectural Records, and of course, money, but the results are extraordinary archive while researching which tracked down as many such records there for all to see—especially now, in the books on the art and architecture of the as possible, published guides to their digital age. subway and Grand Central Terminal. I whereabouts, and did their level best to find spent several weeks in a small Although, once upon a time, office in the basement of a Transit archives lived brick-and-mortar Authority tower in downtown lives, today more material than you Brooklyn, looking at masses might imagine has comfortably of material about those icons retired to the cloud. You can of New York transportation— scroll through vast amounts of documents brought to me from archival material from the privacy the surrounding library stacks. of your desktop, and all that Two excellent archivists helped me material is not only accessible, it’s find the most relevant material. searchable. If you don’t believe Without them I would have me, take a few minutes to visit needed months to do the work. the NYPAP website—you’ll soon be reading transcripts of Anybody writing about the history interviews, or, better yet, listening of theater in New York must to the recordings themselves. It’s spend time at two extraordinary raw information, as all archival collections: the Billy Rose Theatre material must be, and it needs Division at the New York Public The Archive Project’s Stewardship Society tours the to be checked and confirmed Shubert Archives | Courtesy of the Archive Project Library for the Performing Arts and properly interpreted. But at Lincoln Center, and the Shubert Archive them loving homes. Fortunately for them, it’s there—ready and waiting for the next housed at the Lyceum Theater on West 45th and for us, at about the same time the Avery historian or student or daydreamer curious Street. The archive office is on the theater’s Library at Columbia University began to to know how so many of our city’s wonders top floor, and millions of documents are accept architects’ papers (NYPAP honored have evaded the bulldozers and how we have in a loft building behind it. The Billy Rose Janet Parks, retiring Avery archivist, at last managed to preserve the best parts of New Division is one of many research centers in year’s Bard Breakfast). I still have my copy York from the whirlwind of redevelopment the New York Public Library system, but the of COPAR’s Architectural Research Materials that continually uproots the old to make Shubert Archive is a private venture. The in New York City: A Guide to Resources in All way for the new. And if you’re reading this Shuberts have owned or operated hundreds Five Boroughs—several hundred sheets with column, then you’re part of the reason our of theaters around the country, many of reinforced edges, covered in blue type and collection survives and grows. them blessed with nooks and crannies into collected into a three-ring binder. which, over the decades, theater managers Please consider reaching out to NYPAP and superintendents stuffed old plans, And then—surprise! Live long enough, and if you are aware of any papers or archives correspondence, and playbills, until the stuff enough old papers into battered file related to the story of preservation in New Shubert Organization pulled all the material cabinets, and you too may one day become York City that are ready for donation. Thank together and created the archive in the 1980s. an archive. I’m just one of many people you for your support! It’s amazing where documents lie unnoticed who have stubbornly held on to crumbling Page 2 A map of the proposed Greenwich Village Historic District (Proposal No. 1), December 1966. | Courtesy of the Archive Project PreservationLooking Back at the Designation by Recordsthe of LPC Numbers Chairs By Simeon Bankoff Preservationists, like many philatelists, In September 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio perspective, beginning the designation numismatists, and enthusiasts of every appointed Sarah Carroll as the new Landmarks process is far more determinative than stripe, greatly enjoy analyzing, categorizing, Preservation Commission (LPC) chair, the actually taking the vote, since, in 53 years, and cataloging the objects of our fascination. 12th person to fill that role (if one counts the only two proposed historic districts were In our case, especially among the New York three interim acting appointments). To better heard and not designated by the Landmarks breed, the coin of obsession is landmark understand the legacy Carroll has inherited, Commission (both as part of the recent de designation. The questions, “Is that building and to facilitate more robust cocktail Blasio backlog initiative). Therefore, in this a landmark?,” “Which neighborhood will be conversations on the topic, the historic instance, it seems fair to give credit to the designated next?,” and “Has a building like district designation records of the previous initiator of what will almost certainly be a that ever been designated?” are all perennial LPC chairs, from Harmon Goldstone to successful effort than to the person who queries at any preservation gathering, Meenakshi Srinivasan, have been gathered, closed the deal.
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