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PRESERVATION ALERT
from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
August 6, 2008
Late yesterday, the City formally requested that the State allow 75 Morton Street to be converted to a public school, rather than sold off to the highest bidder for development. Your letters and months and months of work by local residents and parents, working with city and state officials, paid off!
However, the story is far from over. No decision has been made by the State. And recent decisions by the City to rezone the area around 75 Morton Street and to allow condo-hotel development in this neighborhood has increased development pressure on this site and will increase the temptation to sell the building off to the highest bidder, rather than preserve it and use it for a much-needed public purpose.
WE NEED TO KEEP THE PRESSURE ON! You can still come to the rally GVSHP is co-sponsoring today, Wednesday, August 6th at 5:30 pm in front of 75 Morton Street (at Greenwich Street) to call for the preservation of this State-owned building for re-use as a local public school.
To join GVSHP or support our preservation efforts, go to www.gvshp.org/membership.htm.
PRESERVATION ALERT
from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
August 4, 2008
PRESERVATION ALERT
from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
July 30, 2008
Background: 75 Morton Street is a former warehouse built in 1919 and currently owned and occupied by the State. However, the State intends to sell off the building, potentially to the highest bidder for whatever use they see fit. A recent rezoning of neighboring blocks, and the City's recent decision to allow 'condo-hotels' (like the nearby Trump SoHo 'Condo-Hotel') in the area, increases development pressure on this site.GVSHP has joined with the Public School Parent Advocacy Committee to ask the City and State to turn the building into a much-needed local public school, given levels of overcrowding at nearby schools. We are concerned about what could happen to the site if it is simply sold off for development, and support locating a school there, which would maintain the building for a public purpose and potentially create an open space attached to the school which could also be used by the general public. A decision from the State is expected shortly, so Wednesday's rally is needed to send a strong message about the community's wishes for the site.