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Fallwinter2020newsletter 11.19.20 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Anthony C. Wood, Chair Elizabeth Rohn 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 Liz McEnaney Richard J. Moylan Kate Burns Ottavino Gina Pollara John T. Reddick Anthony W. Robins Michael Ryan NEWSLETTER FALL/WINTER 2020 Welcome to the 33rd 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. Collecting the Now Efforts Capturing 2020 Inspire Preservationists By Elizabeth Rohn Jeffe, Vice-Chair Preservation history takes two forms. On the one hand, it may center on the story of an organized and gradual effort to save a building, designate a historic district, promote a public policy matter, or even protect a significant historic neighborhood tree. On the other hand, it may require documenting an effort to “put out a fire”—a rush to muster a quick response to a pressing and unforeseen threat. This latter situation is more likely to create a challenge when it comes to saving materials related to a historic preservation effort. The New York Preservation Archive Project works to help preservationists safeguard the records generated by both of these models. But in this critical era of the COVID-19 pandemic and the events associated with the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM), it is especially instructive to examine how several major New York institutions are collecting materials “in the moment” that reflect these societal crises. The Museum of the City of New York, the New-York Historical Society, and the Brooklyn Historical Society all provide inspiring models for collecting in a “put out the fire” mode that preservationists may emulate to save preservation history in the moment. Liam and Miya Lee working on a Black Lives Matter mural in Manhattan, 2020. Photo: Joseph O. Holmes | Courtesy of New-York Historical Society Page 1 Cont. from page 1 request for visuals via Instagram (using the conjunction with the public outreach for The Museum of the City of New York hashtag #CovidStoriesNYC), followed by submissions, the Museum had been in contact is using a two-pronged effort to acquire outreach for social justice visuals through with the Department of Parks and Recreation, both COVID-related and BLM-related the museum’s existing #ActivistNY hashtag the MTA, and smaller businesses pivoting to images and artifacts. In a recent interview, beginning the first week in June. Step two, make personal protective equipment (PPE). Lindsay Turley, Vice President of Museum an open call for physical materials, began Turley observed that signage from City parks Collections, discussed how the museum went on July 7th, once the Museum began to plan shows evolution during the pandemic, with about capturing these seminal events in the for limited staff to return to the Museum. messages about masks, social distancing, and City. The first step was an April 1st public (COVID protocols required the delay.) In other guidelines changing over time. While anyone can instantly send a photo to the Museum, the person wishing to donate an object must submit a photo and a brief description; the Museum then decides whether to accept the object. Not everything can be taken, but several items have already become part of the collections. The first, interestingly, is a hot dog mask made by a woman who participated in the virtual Coney Island Parade. The narrative associated with the mask describes the difficulty of finding the fabric and elastic to construct it, given the supply crunch due to COVID. The Museum has also accepted a journal from a teacher whose daily entries track her passage through the pandemic: She had to begin teaching virtually, she lost her father to the disease, and she herself became ill with it. Yet another COVID-related item signifying the gratitude of New York’s citizens is the pan that a woman banged on every night at 7 p.m. to thank Essential Workers. Artifacts associated with BLM demonstrations are also becoming part of the Museum’s collections; the first is a pamphlet entitled “Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide for Protesters in the City of New York.” It is a spoof on a controversial 1975 “scare” pamphlet handed out to people arriving in the City. On July 23rd, the Museum opened a photographic exhibition, New York Responds, Thank you sign in front of the Brooklyn Public Library on Sixth Avenue in Park Slope during COVID-19, April 18, 2020. Photo: Liz Farrell | Courtesy of Center for Brooklyn History Continued on page 4 Page 2 “It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over” Preserving Your Preservation Legacy By Anthony C. Wood, Archive Project Founder & Chair If you accept that you will die (hopefully no from the New York Community Trust). out to the preservation organizations in time soon) and that the world left behind will Already the Joyce Matz Fund at the Trust which you are involved and start a program continue without you, then it makes sense has supported preservation efforts to save of oral histories? The Archive Project has to contemplate your preservation legacy. As the Music Room at the Frick, landmark produced a manual on how to do it. We are a preservationist, you might immediately the Demarest Building, and fight changes here to help. Alternatively, fund our efforts assume that your legacy lies in the buildings to important but not landmarked interior to conduct more oral histories, including and neighborhoods you helped preserve. spaces at the New York Public Library. If you your own. Sorry to be the skunk at the garden party, are in a position do so, follow their examples. but I suggest you might want to rethink that. Create a fund at the Trust or leave money to Jack and Joyce further insured their the preservation group of your choice (and great preservation legacies by making The places you think you have preserved will there are plenty to choose from). arrangements to secure permanent homes continue to be subject to ongoing change. for their preservation papers. Joyce’s public Even those landmarked buildings and Eric Allison, Joyce Matz, Jack Taylor, relations strategies, brilliantly displayed in historic districts regulated by the New York Gene Norman, and Whitney “Mike” such preservation battles as the fight to save City Landmarks Law will change over time. North Seymour, Jr. left something else City and Suburban Homes and the battle We all know that the price of preservation of equal value to future generations of for St. Bart’s, are illuminated in her papers. is constant vigilance. Who will provide preservationists: their preservation wisdom Jack’s preservation strategies and the tactics that vigilance when you are gone? With as recorded through oral histories. The New he used in his fights for Luchow’s, the Dvořák some luck, it will be the next generations York Preservation Archive Project was able House, and Ladies’ Mile come to life in his of preservationists. Since even public to capture their compelling stories. Their papers. They are there to provide inspiration policy, like the Landmarks Law itself, can narratives will inspire, instruct, and inform to those today engaged in similar battles. potentially be eroded, a robust preservation generations of future preservationists. Sadly, Jack and Joyce’s papers at the New-York community must be in place to defend what because of limited resources, too many Historical Society join those of such other has been accomplished. The cold reality is preservation stories still go untold and preservation luminaries as Margot Gayle and this: the future of each site you think you uncaptured. Do not take your preservation Harmon Goldstone. Jack left money in his have preserved rests in the hands of future story with you to your grave. Why not reach Continued on page 8 generations of preservationists. How can you help ensure their future success once you have “gone to your reward”? Actually, the only way to truly sustain your preservation legacy is to continue your fight for preservation from the grave. (I know some of you are thinking, “What, no rest even when I’m dead?”). Unlikely as it sounds, there are many ways you can do this. Several of our recently departed preservation colleagues have provided us with wonderful examples. Both Jack Taylor and Joyce Matz included provisions in their respective wills to fund preservation efforts from their graves (well, technically, The leadership team of the Citizens Emergency Committee to Preserve Preservation (active 2000s, 2010s). From l to r: Kate Wood, Jeffrey Kroessler, Anthony C. Wood, Eric Allison, Whitney North Seymour, Jr, and Hal Bromm. Photo: Fred R. Conrad | Courtesy of The New York Times Page 3 Cont. from page 2 on its front terrace, featuring visual submissions from the public related to the COVID pandemic and the movement for social justice. The images here deal with larger themes of loss, adaptation, infrastructure, and other categories of experience associated with the times. An indoor exhibition is slated to open in late fall. The New-York Historical Society (N-YHS) is also “collecting in the moment” as part of its History Responds initiative, which began in 2001 after 9/11 and includes materials from Occupy Wall Street, the 2017 Women’s Marches, and previous BLM protests. In an interview, Nina Nazionale, Director of Library Operations and Curator of Printed Collections, outlined how N-YHS structured its current collecting efforts for COVID and BLM.
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