Dear friend,
I want to encourage you to attend two very important upcoming events:
1) There will be a rally to show support for community-compatible park uses on Pier 40 this Sunday, January 27th, at noon, at the pier's courtyard fields (see flyer at www.pier40.org/Pier40Hearing.pdf -- Pier 40 is at Clarkson Street). A decision by the Hudson River Park Trust on the current development proposals for the Pier is expected on January 31, so it is CRITICAL that we show strong support for maintaining a pier which is compatible with our park and our neighborhood. You can also help by signing an on-line petition to the Trust at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/RallyForPier40/.
For more info, see www.gvshp.org/Pier40.htm.
2) NYU will be holding another Open House regarding its 25-year campus plan on Wednesday, January 30th from 4-7 pm at Hemmerdinger Hall, 100 Washington Square East (see www.gvshp.org/documents/NYUOpenHouse1-30-08.pdf). The event will provide information about the University's development plans as well as an opportunity for the public to provide feedback. We strongly urge you to attend -- to find out more, and to let the University know that their #1 priority MUST be to cap new development in our neighborhood and to seek alternative locations for its continued growth.
GVSHP is a member of the Borough President's Community Task Force on NYU Development, which has been helping to move the University towards agreements on appropriate approaches to, and limits on, development in our neighborhood. However, the University continues to assert that it must add an additional six million square feet of space over the next 25 years, and that half that amount must be in our neighborhood -- the equivalent of seventeen more of NYU's recently-built 26-story mega-dorms on East 12th Street. It is therefore CRITICAL that we continue to push for further limits on NYU's planned growth in our neighborhood.
See the front page article on this topic in today's AM New York at www.amny.com/news/local/am-collegetown0125,0,6122493.story and www.amny.com/media/acrobat/2008-01/23136028.pdf.
For more information, go to www.gvshp.org/NYUexpansion.htm.
Best,
Andrew Berman, Executive DirectorGreenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
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