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Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance records

 Collection
Identifier: 6910

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

  • 1988-2014.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

The Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance is a neighborhood organization "dedicated to the preservation and revitalization of the Sunnyside Gardens National Register Historic District." The Sunnyside Gardens Oral History Program was funded by the Clarence Stein Institute at Cornell University. Tony Rohling serves as the Program Director and Herbert Reynolds as the Historian.

Extent

.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Records from the inception of the Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance (2003) to the completion of their quest for Landmarks designation (2007); items from Oral History program.

Physical Description

Correspondence, Manuscripts, Printed Materials, Publications, Reports

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
RMC Staff
Date completed:
September 2010
EAD encoding:
Evan Earle, September 2010
Date modified:
Ben Wrubel, July 2018
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by RMC Staff
Date
September 2010
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)