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Next meeting of Save Our Seaport
The next meeting of Save Our Seaport will be Tuesday, December 6, 6:30 pm, in the Southbridge Towers Community Meeting Room. All supporters of SOS are welcome.
We’ve toppled the tower
We’ve toppled the tower, Wavertree is the pride of Pier 16,but there are still no lights or AC in historic Schermerhorn Row.Now we can secure the future for the South Street Seaport Museum and the South Street Seaport Historic District, the waterfront, and its ships. This is no time to be complacent,Join Save Our Seaport today….(Please see our new By-Laws in the resources section of the SOS website.)
Save Our Seaport forces the Howard Hughes Corporation to “Respect” the Seaport Historic District
New York City Planning Chairman Carl Weisbrod has responded to Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer's concerns about the Minor Modification Pier 17 Land-Use application in an October 25th letter. This follows a Community Board One resolution that mirrored the concerns of SAVE OUR SEAPORT.
* HHC has now been told by the City that they MUST attend public CB1 meetings charged with monitoring the effects of rooftop events upon the surrounding community and be responsive to their findings.
* HHC has been informed that it is ILLEGAL for their delivery trucks to be ...
South Street Seaport: The Longer View
Borough President Gale Brewer in this letter to the City Planning Commission puts current events in the South Street Seaport Historic District in true perspective! Read the letter.
More in keeping… Schermerhorn Row
Here’s a recent short article about Schermerhorn Row in The Architect's Newspaper:
http://archpaper.com/2016/10/arctober-building-day-schermerhorn-row/
It’s the home ashore of the South Street Seaport Museum, and the heart of the South Street Seaport Historic District. (We'll take a pass on the re-branding coming from the developer.)