Urban Design Discussion

Creating density and wealth in New York City is its raison d’être, but if this is untested or questioned it can lead to callous insensitivity.  A city that looses the layers of its cultural history denies itself the means to tell the stories that made it great.  The place noted below triggers one of our city’s most important narratives.  To loose it to thoughtless design and development decisions is to loose our capacity to celebrate and support the courage of human conviction.  This one must not suffer this fate, to do so would acknowledge its true wealth will be lost.

The following will document the solution to this particular problem.  It should be thought of as an example of how the city must resolve the demand for continuous growth without loosing its capacity to be “self-renewing”.

Please keep me up to date on the 339 W 29^th Street issue by bringing to my immediate attention its proposed resolution or status.  I am keenly interested in retaining the physical integrity of this place for it importance in American history.  Steps taken in this direction would be greatly appreciated.  I also believe some agency coordination is in order in this new era of “silo” prevention.

Rex Curry: The Urban Design Discussion

The message above has been address according to the following titles and agencies: 

AT LPC:
Executive Director Kate Daily at LPC:  kdaly@lpc.nyc.gov;
Commissioner Robert Tierney at LPC: rtierney@lpc.nyc.gov and comments@lpc.nyc.gov

 AT DOB:
Leah Donaldson
Manhattan Liaison: Intergovernmental & Community Affairs
ldonaldson@buildings.nyc.gov 

History of the house at: http://saveabolitionisthome339w29stnyc.blogspot.com/

Go to the earliest posts at the site for this info.  On Facebook there are some photos of the building at:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=737066428#!/group.php?gid=11580831517&v=photos&so=60