the ANTHEMION, newsletter of the Winter/Spring 2016 GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION

City Backs University Place in the neighborhood, even claiming Hi-Rise and Tower Zoning sites which were currently in the process of being demolished for GVSHP Pursues Rare new construction were unlikely to Community-Initiated Rezoning see new development.

Mayor de Blasio’s Department of City Planning In November, GVSHP was joined has consistently and adamantly refused to by City Councilmember Rosie change the zoning for the University Place and Mendez, State Senator Brad Broadway corridors, which currently allows Hoylman, Community Board #2 300+ ft. tall towers, encourages hotel and Chair Tobi Bergman, and actor/ dorm development, and provides no incentives activist/Villager Edward Norton or requirements for affordable housing. As a and hundreds of neighbors for a result, a nearly 300 ft. tall luxury condo tower rally and press conference in front (l. to r.) Edward Norton (in hat and glasses), State Senator Brad is planned for the former Bowlmor Lanes site of the Bowlmor development site Hoylman, City Councilmember Rosie Mendez (speaking) and at University Place and 12th Street, and a 230 calling for the City to move ahead GVSHP Exec. Dir. Andrew Berman protesting the Bowlmor tower ft. tall office/condo tower is planned for 809 and calling upon Mayor de Blasio to support our rezoning proposal. with our rezoning plan. Under Broadway (11/12th Streets), the former home our proposed zoning, that tower of Blatt Billiards. But even with this information, the Mayor would be reduced to 120 feet in height and refused to change his position, and with these More than a year ago, GVSHP put forward a likely contain 29,000 square feet of affordable refusals has allowed the Bowlmor condo tower rezoning plan with reasonable height limits for housing. to move ahead. new development (80-120 feet), which would At the press conference, speakers noted the eliminate current dorm and hotel incentives In response, GVSHP is pursuing a rare, private hypocrisy of the administration defending and encourage inclusion of affordable rezoning for the area. As the applicant, housing—a supposed priority of the de Blasio this development plan and zoning that this requires GVSHP to perform the needed administration. Our plan was enthusiastically guarantees no new affordable housing in the environmental review (typically done by either endorsed by every local elected official, the area and encourages woefully out-of-scale the City or a developer) at a considerable community board, and hundreds of neighbors new construction. GVSHP’s analysis showed expense. At the end of the day, the plan still who signed petitions, attended meetings, or our rezoning plan would result in as much needs to be approved by the City and the City wrote letters in support. as 200,000 square feet of new affordable Council. Much support will be needed for the housing, while ensuring that all new rezoning to be realized and ensure no more But the City refused to consider the plan, development remained in scale and context towers rise on the more than a dozen potential consistently putting forward false information for the neighborhood, unlike the currently future development sites in the area. See about the lack of potential development sites planned towers. gvshp.org/univpl for more info.

1 Rezoning Plans Would more appealing commercial space in the ground Housing’ (MIH) plan would require, as part Strip Local Protections, floor, as well as making them more affordable. of future zoning actions, that new residential developments in designated areas include 25- Increase Development Nothing could be further from the truth. 30% affordable housing. The current proposal Citywide GVSHP has led the fight against these plans, would only put the framework for this system exposing with detailed studies and real-life in place; subsequent zoning actions would be Despite Pushback, Plans Head to City Council examples how the proposed changes would required to apply these requirements to any be unlikely to result in a single additional unit Mayor de Blasio has two citywide rezoning particular location. of affordable housing being built, and would plans with broad and in some ways deeply certainly not make for better or more attractive There has been much debate about the disturbing implications for our neighborhoods new developments. amount and affordability of the housing in the and our city. MIH proposal. Less focus has been placed Not long after GVSHP held a press conference ‘Zoning for Quality and Affordability’ (ZQA) upon an issue GVSHP has raised—that the on the steps of City Hall condemning the plan, would roll back existing neighborhood zoning City is saying they will only apply MIH in cases changes were announced eliminating or reducing protections—many of which we and other where they very substantially increase the size some, but not all, of the proposed height limit communities fought years to achieve—and of allowable development in an area, and that increases. Many still remain, however. prevent future application of such protections. such massive upzonings are the only kinds of rezonings the city will consider in the future. Particularly hard hit would be “contextual zoning Hundreds turned out for, and hundreds more districts” such as those GVSHP fought for and were turned away from, a City Planning The implications of such a policy are far- helped secure in the East Village and Far West Commission public hearing on the proposal in reaching, and disturbing. On the one hand, Village, as well as areas where we are trying to December. As we go to press, the Commission to get affordable housing, you must accept a secure such protections, such as the University is set to vote soon on the plan, with the massive upzoning which would require vastly Place/Broadway corridors and the South Village. expectation there will be changes, but approval out-of-scale construction—destroying not only is likely. The plan’s ultimate fate will then be Under ZQA, the height limits for new developments neighborhood scale and character, but ultimately decided by the City Council, which has the last in these neighborhoods would almost uniformly making neighborhoods less affordable with the word on all city zoning measures. To help, send be lifted, by five to twenty-five feet or more. The flood of market rate (i.e. luxury) housing which letters at gvshp.org/zqa. Mayor claims such increases in height will help would be allowed as a result. On the other hand, neighborhood rezonings which do not massively make new developments more attractive with The Mayor’s ‘Mandatory Inclusionary increase the allowable size of new development, and instead limit the scale of new construction, will no longer be undertaken. We are seeing manifestations of this policy on University Place and at Pier 40/St. John’s (see pgs. 1 & 3).

GVSHP is strongly opposed to such an approach. We believe that promoting affordable housing and maintaining neighborhood scale and character are both important priorities, and the City’s approach needlessly puts these two goals at cross-purposes. Like ZQA, MIH’s fate will be decided at the City Council this spring. More info Under the Mayor’s zoning proposal, these three new buildings in contextual zones in the East Village could have and how to help at gvshp.org/zqamih. been built 25 to 35 feet taller.

2 City & Developer Propose The development would contain 2 million However, the scale of the proposed Huge St. John’s Upzoning square feet spread over five buildings—the development and its potential impact is equivalent of six Trump SoHos, or about alarming. Based upon economic analysis Mega-Project Includes three-quarters the size of the Empire State of other recent nearby developments, the Some Affordable Housing, Building. The tallest of the buildings would proposed rezoning would more than triple Pier 40 Funding from Air Rights Sales be 430 feet tall or about the height of the the value of the site for this developer, who Trump SoHo, and the complex would include seemingly stands to benefit much more than In late 2015, the City announced agreement 1,600 apartments, a large hotel, event space, the public by this proposed zoning change. with a developer to rezone the St. John’s and hundreds of thousands of square feet of Terminal building, a 3-block site between West retail—possibly including a very large big box Disturbingly, the plan also includes the sale and Washington Streets straddling Houston store underground. of “air rights” from Pier 40 and the Hudson Street. The plan would remove restrictions River Park (as made possible by an act of which currently allow only limited commercial This plan must go through a long public review the State Legislature in 2013), permitting and manufacturing uses. Residences, hotels, and approval process, including hearings the proposed development to grow larger. and large-scale retail would be permitted, and and votes by the Community Board, Borough Incredibly, the Hudson River Park Trust has the size of allowable development would be President, City Planning Commission, and still not revealed the quantity of air rights on increased by 70%. City Council. Favorable votes by both the Pier 40 or elsewhere in the park that could Commission and the Council are needed for be used in the future, which should be a In return, the developer would pay $100 approval, though approval with modifications prerequisite for even considering any plan. million towards repair and restoration of Pier is also possible. And the Trust and city and state officials still 40, located across West Street—a massive, refuse to consider alternatives for funding the deteriorating structure which provides playing GVSHP recognizes the benefits of generating park offered by GVSHP and dozens of other fields for children and sports leagues, and much-needed funding for Pier 40 and community groups—alternatives which would hundreds of parking spaces which generate providing affordable housing. And under not increase the size of allowable development needed revenue for the Hudson River current zoning, a very large development could in our neighborhoods. Park. Twenty-five per cent of the proposed and probably would be built here without any residential development would also be such public benefits. Perhaps most disturbingly, even as the City affordable housing, some for seniors. has embraced and advanced this developer’s proposal, they have refused to act upon long-standing requests for zoning and landmark protections for unprotected areas of the nearby South Village.

GVSHP is working hard to ensure that no plan is approved without protections for nearby areas and a full accounting of air rights in the park and a plan to limit their use in the future. And we intend to ensure there are no lopsided giveaways to developers at the expense of the affected community. Read more

(l.) Pier 40 (center) with the St. John’s Terminal directly behind, and Trump SoHo behind on right; (r.) the proposed new and help at gvshp.org/pier40stjohn. 5-building, 2 mil. sq. ft. development.

3 Gansevoort Proposal Faces Changes are allowed in Mass Opposition at Landmarks historic districts, including additions, demolition, Large-Scale Demolition and new construction. and Construction Would But they must be found to Transform Meatpacking District be “appropriate” by the LPC, cannot result in the In November, GVSHP, fellow community loss of important historic and preservation groups, local elected characteristics, and officials and the Community Board showed can’t add new features up en masse at a Landmarks Preservation that would detract from Commission (LPC) public hearing to oppose the district’s history or a proposal for demolition of two buildings character. on Gansevoort Street, construction of two new ones, and large-scale additions to a But as GVSHP pointed out third. Though the street currently consists at the LPC hearing, this The standing room-only crowd at the Landmarks hearing on the proposal. exclusively of one-to-two story historic meat proposal is not change; market buildings, one of the new buildings it is obliteration. The would ruin its irreplaceable sense of place. would reach 120 feet in height, while the proposed new buildings and additions would additions to another would nearly triple its utterly overwhelm the street and the district, Because the huge volume of testimony in height. The plan requires landmarks approval fundamentally destroying its character. The opposition went so long, the Commissioners because in 2003 GVSHP proposed and buildings to be demolished and built on top of closed the hearing very late in the day without secured landmark status for this street and make important contributions to the district, any comment on the proposal. The next step much of the Meatpacking District. and should not be compromised in this will be a public meeting at which the proposal manner. will be discussed by the Commissioners with the applicant, expected later this winter. At Cobblestoned this meeting the public can attend and listen Gansevoort Street has but not speak. Meanwhile, the developers the only remaining have nearly emptied the building of all row of historic market tenants, and we have received multiple buildings along an reports of their conducting a “push poll” by entire blockfront phone of area residents, asking if they would anywhere in the prefer the buildings remain dilapidated or are Meatpacking District. “restored to their 19th century appearance,” Because of its location, by which they actually mean razed and it serves as the replaced with larger buildings or with gateway not only to oversized additions added. this historic district, but to the High Line, GVSHP continues to urge the LPC to the Whitney Museum, return this proposal to the drawing board. the Hudson River Park, For more information, see gvshp.org/ The proposed new construction on Gansevoort Street would replace 1-2 story and the West Village. gansevoortstreet. historic market buildings. The proposed changes

4 GVSHP Oral Histories & with Ingrid Bernhard. Bernhard and her Image Archives Expanded husband Sven lived in an historic farmhouseon the Upper East Side sometimes known as First-Person Accounts, “Cobble Court” or “the Goodnight Moon Vintage Photos and Drawings, House,” as writer Margaret Wise Brown wrote Now Available On-Line the beloved children’s book while living there. In 1967, when the house faced demolition, the GVSHP provides a variety of resources to the Bernhards moved it to 121 Charles Street at public about the history, culture, and architecture Greenwich Street, creating a cherished local of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. landmark that remains to this day. Oral histories with important artists, business owners, preservationists, cultural pioneers Just some of the other subjects of new oral and community leaders are one of the most histories include , founder of important ways in which we do that. Maintaining Anthology Film Archives; Matt Umanov, and expanding an archive of historic images of owner of Umanov Guitars on ; our neighborhood, documenting both continuity acclaimed painter Wolf Kahn; celebrated 75 ½ Bedford Street, from GVSHP’s Historic Image and change, is another. composer and musician David Amram; Archive. Frances Goldin, co-founder of the Met In late 2015 GVSHP made a great leap forward Council on Housing and the and Margot Gayle, while the latter includes with both of these projects, greatly expanding Committee, and leader against Robert Moses’ histories from Merce Cunningham and Richard our cache of oral histories, and for the first East Village urban renewal plans; Raffetto’s Meier, among many others. Access all the oral time making our historic image archive Pasta owners Romana and Andrew Raffetto; histories at gvshp.org/oralhistory. available on-line, with a mapping tool to Tom Birchard, owner of ; and Maria With a grant from the NY Preservation Archive maximize the collection’s utility. Kenney, daughter of the owners of Kenny’s Project, GVSHP was also able to make our Castaways and The Bitter End, among many GVSHP added about twenty new oral histories historic archive of over 300 images available others. Each has incredible stories to tell to our collection, all of which are available on- on-line, including photos, drawings, etchings, about the neighborhood’s artistic, literary, line to listen to or read. This most recent round and paintings. The collection contains musical, culinary, cultural, and ethnic history of oral histories focused on the East Village and everything from images of the 9th Avenue and experience. South Village, but also included an interview Elevated when it was up to the Sixth Avenue These latest oral El when it came down; old Department histories join our Stores, churches, and hotels; pear trees and long-standing prisons; markets and mews; libraries and La collections Grange Terrace; and New Yorkers as varied focused on Village as Peter Cooper and Montgomery Clift. We ‘Preservation also have a particularly large collection Pioneers’ and of images of Washington Square and the origins of the the Washington Square Art Show over the Westbeth Artists years. Additionally, all images have been complex. The placed on an easily usable map, so you can former include search by geographic area of interest. View the interviews with archive at gvshp.org/historicimages. Jonas Mekas (l.) and Jan Jacobs are just two of dozens of figures who have done oral histories for GVSHP, available on our website. Jane Jacobs

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• Join our e-mail list for alerts on critical Meatpacking District or NoHo, when preservation and development issues— hearings and votes will take place, how gvshp.org/email. you can testify or affect the outcome, and sign up for alerts about the status of the application—go to gvshp.org/lpc.

• Did you know? Every day GVSHP monitors all 6,500 buildings in our • No Kidding: In Spring our Children’s neighborhoods for new building, Education Program kicks into high alteration, or demolition permits, and gear, teaching over a thousand all 3,000 landmarked structures for any elementary and middle school students proposed major changes. from across New Yok City how history can be found and preserved in the • Keeping It Real: In the Spring and Fall, • Save the Date: GVSHP’ Annual Benefit cityscapes and built environment around GVSHP’s Continuing Education for House Tour is Sunday, May 1—gvshp. them, using the Village as an example. Real Estate Professionals explores org/housetour. The three-session program starts in the history and architecture of the the classroom, takes a field trip to Village and . Course topics • Help the cause by volunteering—go to the Village, and concludes with an in- are presented through classroom gvshp.org/volunteer. classroom craft project reinforcing what instruction, field visits to museums, has been seen and learned. Immigration walking tours, and private tours, led history, evolving technology’s impact • Buy the Book! by luminaries in the field. The course upon buildings and people’s lives, and Greenwich satisfies New York State requirements our city’s transformation from farmland Village Stories for continuing education for real estate to dense urban environment are all on is a love letter to professionals. Space allowing, the the agenda. See gvshp.org/kidsed. Greenwich Village general public is also welcome. See and the East gvshp.org/conted. Village featuring • Planned Giving—make a legacy gift to works of sixty-six GVSHP. Call 212/475-9585 x39. artists, writers, and neighborhood icons, with beautiful • Get with the Program! Upcoming photos and artwork. All proceeds lectures, book talks, walking tours, and support GVSHP. See gvshp.org/ panel discussions are listed at gvshp. gvstories.

org/programs. Missed a program? MUNGER BARRY Past program videos are at gvshp.org/ (l.) and Westbeth; two of • Visit GVSHP’s blog Off the Grid for pastprograms. the 1,100 buildings GVSHP helped get fun and fascinating glimpses into our landmarked. neighborhoods’ hidden history, eye- • Want to know about landmarks • Learn about 1,100 buildings GVSHP catching architecture, and colorful applications in your neighborhood? has helped get landmarked since 2003— characters—see gvshp.org/blog. See proposed changes to landmarked see gvshp.org/10. building in the Village, East Village,

6 REBNY Report Refuted each a final public hearing and vote. Some had been under consideration for nearly 50 years. The Real Estate Board of NY constantly tries to paint landmarking as harmful to everything from This fall, GVSHP testified economic development to ethnic diversity. This in favor of and called for past fall, they made the mistake of taking data landmarking of the four an unaffiliated researcher had compiled and sites in our area from this in claimed it showed landmarking led to decreased list—federal-era houses at brief affordable housing. GVSHP swiftly teamed up 57 Sullivan Street (1816-17), with the researcher to publicly refute the real 2 Oliver Street (1821), and Plaques Mark the Spot estate lobby’s false and misleading claims. 138 Second Avenue (1832), and 801 Broadway/67 East 11th Street (1868). A This followed the release of our report showing In 2015, as part of our historic plaque program decision from the City is expected this spring. how REBNY has consistently stymied affordable in partnership with Two Boots, GVSHP placed See gvshp.org/lastchance. historic markers on the site of dance pioneer housing efforts in New York, thus undermining Martha Graham’s former studio at 66 Fifth any credibility they have on the affordability issue. Read more at gvshp.org/rebny. Avenue (13th Street) and the former home of Opposing “Do-or-Die literary and civil rights giant James Baldwin at 81 Horatio Street. Deadline” Bill Second Chance for GVSHP helped lead opposition to City Council Each year, we add two new plaques throughout Intro. 775, which would make landmarking much the Village, East Village, and NoHo. Past Last Chance Landmarks harder and demolition much easier by imposing plaques have included the site of the former Last year GVSHP and fellow preservationists “do-or-die” deadlines for considering landmark Fillmore East, beat mecca the San Remo Café, successfully lobbied to get the City to drop designations. If deadlines were unmet, sites and the home of poet Frank O’Hara. Find out a plan to remove nearly 100 sites under would become ineligible for landmark designation more and watch footage of plaque unvelings at consideration for more than five years from its for five years, and open to demolition. Had the gvshp.org/plaque. list of potential landmarks, and to instead give law been in effect over the past fifty years, nearly half our city’s landmarks would not have been designated, including Grand Central Station, the Woolworth Building, and the Greenwich Village Historic District.

After a huge turnout against the bill at the Council public hearing and more than 70,000 letters in opposition generated by GVSHP, several Councilmembers dropped support for the bill, the authors promised to amend it, and it’s currently on hold. As an alternative, GVSHP has suggested ways to address legitimate

(l. to r.) 57 Sullivan Street, 2 Oliver Street, 138 Second Avenue, and 801 Broadway. concerns about landmarks delays without gutting the system. See gvshp.org/775. 7 One If By Land sold for $26 mil. for development in 2014. While zoning might allow a tower, GVSHP was outraged when the the site is within a historic (landmark) venerable historic archway over the district, and thus only a much more entrance to Village modest scale of development would eatery “One If likely be approved. Any proposal must By Land, Two If go through the landmarks hearing and in By Sea” at 17 review process, where the public can Barrow Street was brief weigh in on what should or should removed from the not be approved. No plans have been landmarked 1834 filed, but GVSHP will notify when that house. The change process begins. was unpermitted and sparked an The beloved archway at One If By Land. impassioned public outcry. 85-93 Jane Street were sold for $32 promote on our website and blog, via social mil. in 2012, but no development plans The restaurant owner claimed emergency media, and through our e-newsletter, reaching have yet been filed. Also located in a historic repairs required the removal, but there tens of thousands of people. Increased (landmark) district, unlike 11-19 Jane, these was no record of such an order from the patronage, support, and appreciation of these buildings have some historic significance, with Buildings Department. The owner also claimed businesses’ unique virtues and services are parts dating to the 19th century. GVSHP has the arch was added in 1969, but GVSHP the goal. Mercer Books, Ray’s Candy Store, La shared our research on the buildings with the research showed it was at least 75 years old, Bonbonniere, Tea & Sympathy, B & H Dairy, Landmarks Preservation Commission in the possibly older. The Landmarks Preservation and Greenwich Locksmiths have been just hopes that, though somewhat altered, outright Commission is considering whether to some of the recipients. Spread the word or demolition would not be approved here (non- require the arch be restored or to allow a nominate a favorite at gvshp.org/BoM. historic buildings in historic districts can be different entryway that reveals some older demolished). Here too GVSHP will notify the historic materials which were public if and when an application is filed and the underneath the arch. GVSHP Eye on landmarks review and hearing process begins. supports the former; a decision is forthcoming. See Jane Street 134-140 Jane Street, at West Street, is a gvshp.org/17barrow. Jane Street is the heart of the parking lot recently shuttered, possibly for historic West Village—a mix development. While not landmarked, in 2005 of 19th century rowhouses, GVSHP was able to get the site rezoned to Business of medium-sized apartment impose height limits for new development. the Month buildings, and converted loft- While not as strict as we would have liked, the industrial buildings. But three new zoning allows a maximum height of 120 ft. Promoting, celebrating, potential development sites for new development, or the same as adjacent and protecting small, local, on the street could mean 495 West Street, whereas the old zoning had no independent businesses significant changes, and height limits. A development here requires no remains a high priority for illustrate how development public hearing or review, but no plans have yet GVSHP. Our ‘Business of the and preservation work in our been filed. GVSHP will monitor for such filings. Month’ program is one way we do that. neighborhood. GVHP is carefully watching all. For more info or to sign up for alerts on these Soliciting nominations from the public, each 11-19 Jane Street, a parking garage, was sites, go to gvshp.org/janestreet. month we select one business to highlight and

8 From the Director Board of Trustees

The state of affairs in our city in 2016 brings feelings of President Art Levin both optimism and alarm here at GVSHP. Vice-President Kate Bostock Shefferman Secretary/Treasurer Allan Sperling On the one hand, the organization is stronger than ever, with greater public support and participation than any Mary Ann Arisman Ruth McCoy time in our history. Residents of the Village, East Village, Penelope Bareau Andrew S. Paul and NoHo have been generously contributing their time, Tom Birchard Cynthia Penney talent, and resources to the organization like never Richard Blodgett Robert Rogers before—writing letters and checks, showing up at public Kyung Choi Bordes Katherine Schoonover hearings, attending events and rallies. Tom Cooper Marilyn Sobel More real estate professionals than ever are signing up for our continuing education Elizabeth Ely Trevor Stewart classes to learn the value of historic preservation. More members of the public are Cassie Glover Judith Stonehill viewing our on-line videos of lectures and panel discussions about landmarking Anita Isola Linda Yowell and neighborhood history. And more people are exploring our oral histories with Justine Leguizamo F. Anthony Zunino, III neighborhood leaders, cultural icons, preservationists and long-time local business- Leslie Mason owners, showing that the appreciation for preservation and history is growing. Staff But at the same time, we’re seeing an unyielding resistance on the part of the City to Andrew Berman Matthew Morowitz consider neighborhood preservation measures, and aggressive promotion of policies Executive Director Administrative that would strip away recent progress and encourage increasingly out-of-scale Assistant development. We’re seeing an administration adopt the Alice-in-Wonderland logic Sarah Bean Apmann promoted by the real estate industry that vastly increasing market-rate development Director of Research & Sam Moskowitz will make our city more affordable and livable. And we’re seeing a City Council Preservation Director of Operations consider hindering a landmarking process which needs strengthening, not further Ted Mineau Lauren Snetiker impediments. Director of Programs Development & Communications If proposed changes go through, we could see the undoing of years of progress Manager towards preserving a healthy scale, balance, and sense of place in our neighborhoods. And while rules and regulations may change, the demolition and Acknowledgements new construction they result in are almost always permanent—even if the pendulum swings back in the future, once historic buildings have been destroyed and replaced The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preserva- with out-of-scale new ones, we are not likely to ever regain what has been lost. tion gratefully acknowledges the following for grants in support of our work: Dalio Foundation, Honig Con- That is why it is so important to meet these challenges head on now, and win. te Porrino Insurance Agency, HSBC Home Mortgage, Fortunately GVSHP is in a better position to do so than ever. The future of our city Lynne Waxman Foundation, New York State Council and our neighborhoods hangs in the balance, and GVSHP is very much in the fight. I on the Arts, The Kaplen Brothers Fund, Two Boots, hope you’ll join us. City Council Members Rosie Mendez, Margaret Chin, and Corey Johnson through the De- partment of Cultural Affairs, and Assemblymember Deborah Glick through the New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation.

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