Gothamist: Preserving the Lower East Side

EJ

Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:21:52 -0500

I'm trying to find anyone who may have video of Tompkins Square Park/ Tent City as it was from the late 80's to early 90's, before evry one was moved out. I'm also looking to get copies of Clayton Patterson's vid productions "Dinkinsville" and "Tompkins Square Park". Anyone who can help. please get in touch with me at ejluv@aol.com.

Toby

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:52:12 -0500

Most historic preservationist are nuts who want to force things down peoples throats. Sure they have done some good things and preserved some worthwhile buildings, but landmarking makes things hard for regular people who own a home in a landmarked district. If the Tenement Museum wants a historic district they should get one, but only if they subsidize the property owners effected by restrictive preservation laws who neeed to make repairs or modifications to their buildings. That said, I think a lot of this landmarking will get thrown out when someone challenges it in court and it hits the Supreme Court which now seems stacked with right wing nutjobs.

pugsley

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:22:23 -0500

The Tenement Museum is over-reaching and should fuck off. We already can see what damage the landmarks committee on the upper west side has done so why would the LES want the same.

kristin

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:50:05 -0500

the LES looks exactly like countless other neighborhoods in new york. will Libation become part of the historic part? hehe.

WES

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:56:54 -0500

Does anyone else see the irony in this proposal being put forth by the Tenement Museum, a museum dedicated to showing the squalid living condition at the turn of the century?

Ace

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:06:23 -0500

"they can hinder future development while simultaneously making it much more difficult to do even mundane building repairs like replace windows" -And the problem is? careful zoning and a watchful community board = corruption, favoritism, cronyism