Testimony-- in those cases where copies were shared with the SGPA-- that was sent to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) for its April 17, 2007, Public Hearing on Sunnyside Gardens. Reprints of e-mails [first page headed with "A sampling of written testimony..."] are followed by photocopies of letters. Pursuant to this hearing, the Commissioners voted to designate the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District on June 24, 2007, and the matter was referred to the Department of City Planning and the City Council., 2006-2007
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
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
- 2006-2007
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)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
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