The Landmarks Preservation Commission currently receives an operating budget of only $4.3 million a year; unfortunately, this doesn’t cut the mustard for a group that’s supposed to be protecting currently landmarked areas, considering the designation of new districts and processing the numerous applications for exterior work by home and business owners. A huge coalition of local preservation groups that includes organization like the Historic Districts Council and the Municipal Arts Society (complete list on the jump) has banded together to push for the city to increase LPC’s budge by $1 million. That effort culminates today at 12:30 on the steps of City Hall where concernced citizens will rally alongside City Council Members Tony Avella, Jessica Lappin and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.
Lobby Day Fact Sheet [Save LPC]
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Participating Groups
10th & Stuyvesant Streets Block Association, American Institute of Architects, NYC Chapter, Bay Improvement Group, Bay Ridge Conservancy, Beachside Bungalow Preservation Association of Far Rockaway, Boerum Hill Association, Brooklyn Community Board 13, Brooklyn Community Board 2, Brooklyn Community Board 6, Brooklyn Heights Association, Brownstone Revival Coalition, Cambridge Place Action Coalition, Carnegie Hill Neighbors, Citizens Emergency Committee to Preserve Preservation, Cobble Hill Association, Committee to Save The RKO Keith’s Theatre of Flushing, Committee to Save the Trylon Theater, Defenders of the Historic Upper East Side, DOCOMOMO US New York/Tri-State Chapter, DUMBO Neighborhood Association, East Side Rezoning Alliance, East Village Community Coalition, Fiske Terrace Association, Fort Greene Association, Four Borough Neighborhood Preservation Alliance, Friends of First Avenue Estate, Friends of Terra Cotta, Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, Friends of West Park, Fulton Ferry Landing Association, Gramercy Neighborhood Associates, Greenwich Village Community Task Force, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, Historic Districts Council, Historic Landmarks Preservation Center, Historic Neighborhood Enhancement Alliance, Jackson Heights Garden City Society, Juniper Park Civic Association, Juniper Valley Park Conservancy, Landmark West!, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Madison-Marine-Homecrest Civic Association, Manhattan Community Board 1, Manhattan Community Board 5, Maspeth-Middle Village Task Force, Merchant’s House Museum, Metropolitan Historic Structures Association, Modern Architecture Working Group, Municipal Art Society, New York Landmarks Conservancy, New York Preservation Alliance, North Shore Waterfront Greenbelt, Park Slope Civic Council, Preservation League of Staten Island, Preserve & Protect, Queens Civic Congress, Queens Community Board 4, Queens Preservation Council, Rego-Forest Preservation Council, Richmond Hill Historical Society, Senator Street Historic District, Serpentine Art and Nature Commons, Society for Clinton Hill, Society for the Architecture of the City, The Drive to Protect the Ladies’ Mile Historic District, Tribeca Community Association, Waterfront Preservation Alliance of Greenpoint and Williamsburg, West 54 – 55 Street Block Association, West Brighton Restoration Society, West Cunningham Park Civic Association, Westerleigh Improvement Society, Women’s City Club of New York, World Monuments Fund.