Breaking news from Andrew Berman on Morton Street

PRESERVATION ALERT
from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
August 6, 2008
www.gvshp.org




Dear friend:

I have some wonderful news -- 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.

Best,

Andrew Berman
Executive Director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

To join GVSHP or support our preservation efforts, go to www.gvshp.org/membership.htm.