3 results for month: 11/2015

Please Sign The New Coalition Petition

In some cultures, the symbol for ‘crisis’ is the same as the symbol for ‘opportunity’.  What seems like a crisis in which we may lose our historical landmarks is also an opportunity for us to prevent our beloved city from being recklessly overdeveloped. New York is already the most dense city in the nation, and we now totter on the brink of becoming an impossible-to-live-in quagmire, bereft of open space, accessible transportation, and treasured antiquities. Responsible citizens are banding together to fight the exploitation of our metropolis! Save Our Seaport has reviewed the linked petition, joined the coalition, and continues to ...

Join Save Our Seaport for our next meeting on November 18 at 6:30pm

Mark your calendar: The next meeting of Save Our Seaport will be on Wednesday, November 18, at 6:30 in the St. Margaret’s House conference rooms. More to come….. In the meantime, our friends at Historic Districts Council want to let you know about a great program that HDC started last year called Preservation School.  The series seeks to provide basic background and skills about historic preservation in NYC in an informal setting.  The classes are held on Monday nights once a month from September to June at their Neighborhood Preservation Center (232 East 11th Street).  Each class lasts about an hour and includes a Q&A period.  Last ...

There Will Be No Tall (Seaport) Tower

New York, NY (November 6, 2015) – “There will be no tall (Seaport) tower on the New Market site ”says an Howard Hughes Corporation (“HHC”) spokeswoman. “That is not happening.”      (As quoted in Thursday’s New York Post). Save Our Seaport’s Michael Kramer said that the grassroots group was encouraged by today’s announcement.  “Both the Seaport Working Group and Manhattan Community Board One have strongly opposed inappropriate development at the historic Old Fish Market site. We echo their call to extend the South Street Seaport Historic District to include the New Market Building, that further there be no “tower” ...