Copies of cards collected door to door within Sunnyside Gardens, chiefly during 2005. The aim was to reach property owners in order to show that an absolute majority supported designation. (Majority support is not a requirement for designation, but as so many owners were demonstratively in favor, this was evidence to expedite the political process by assuring elected officials.) These cards also include many tenants and enabled the SGPA to build its e-mail and phone networks of supporters in this campaign. The cards exclude the earliest supporters in Harrison Place, who had already voiced their support in the petition below. On legal paper., 2005

File — Box: 1, Folder: 2

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

From the Collection:

Records from the inception of the Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance (2003) to the completion of their quest for Landmarks designation (2007). Includes Sunnyside Gardens Historic District Designation Report by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, June 26, 2007.

CDs and typescript summaries from the Sunnyside Gardens Oral History program include interviews by Herbert Reynolds with Nesbitt Garmendia (2012), Robert W. Jones (2012), Marilyn Lutzker (2012), Gerry Modica (2012), and Ethel Plimack (2010); interview by Herbert Reynolds and Tony Rohling with Gerry Modica and Suzanne Patterson (2010); and interviews by Sabine Heinlein with Dorothy A. Cavallo (2011) and Liivia Westervelt (2011). Also two interviews by Pamela Nelson with Gerald A. Perrin (1988).

Dates

2005

Creator

From the Collection: Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance (Organization)
From the Collection: Cavallo, Dorothy A. (Person)
From the Collection: Garmendia, Nesbitt. (Person)
From the Collection: Jones, Robert W. (Person)
From the Collection: Lutzker, Marilyn. (Person)
From the Collection: Modica, Gerry. (Person)
From the Collection: Patterson, Suzanne. (Person)
From the Collection: Perrin, Gerald A. (Person)
From the Collection: Plimack, Ethel. (Person)
From the Collection: Westervelt, Liivia. (Person)
From the Collection: Reynolds, Herbert (Interviewer, Person)
From the Collection: Heinlein, Sabine (Interviewer, Person)
From the Collection: Nelson, Pamela (Interviewer, Person)
From the Collection: Rohling, Tony (Interviewer, Person)
From the Collection: New York (N.Y.). Landmarks Preservation Commission (Organization)