Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance records, 1988-2014.
Collection Number: 6910
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance records, 1988-2014.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6910
Abstract:
Records from the inception of the Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance (2003) to
the completion of their quest for Landmarks designation (2007); items from Oral History
program.
Creator:
Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance
Cavallo, Dorothy A.
Garmendia, Nesbitt.
Jones, Robert W.
Lutzker, Marilyn.
Modica, Gerry.
Patterson, Suzanne.
Perrin, Gerald A.
Plimack, Ethel.
Westervelt, Liivia.
Reynolds, Herbert
Heinlein, Sabine
Nelson, Pamela
Rohling, Tony
New York (N.Y.). Landmarks Preservation Commission
Quanitities:
.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Records from the inception of the Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance (2003) to
the completion of their quest for Landmarks designation (2007). Includes Sunnyside
Gardens Historic District Designation Report by the New York City Landmarks Preservation
Commission, June 26, 2007.
CDs and typescript summaries from the Sunnyside Gardens Oral History program include
interviews by Herbert Reynolds with Nesbitt Garmendia (2012), Robert W. Jones (2012),
Marilyn Lutzker (2012), Gerry Modica (2012), and Ethel Plimack (2010); interview by
Herbert Reynolds and Tony Rohling with Gerry Modica and Suzanne Patterson (2010);
and interviews by Sabine Heinlein with Dorothy A. Cavallo (2011) and Liivia Westervelt
(2011). Also two interviews by Pamela Nelson with Gerald A. Perrin (1988).
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance records, #6910. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
The Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance is a neighborhood organization "dedicated
to the preservation and revitalization of the Sunnyside Gardens National Register
Historic District." The Sunnyside Gardens Oral History Program was funded by the Clarence
Stein Institute at Cornell University. Tony Rohling serves as the Program Director
and Herbert Reynolds as the Historian.
Names:
Stein, Clarence S.
Places:
Sunnyside Gardens (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Historic buildings -- New York (State) -- New York.
Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York.
Historic districts -- New York (State) -- New York.
Form and Genre Terms:
Oral histories.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Landmarks Preservation Campaign
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
The heart of this collection-- all the flyers and newsletter produced by the SGPA
and delivered to every household in Sunnyside Gardens. On occasion, this folder includes
a message from a supporter or affiliate of the SGPA or an item delivered to a narrower
group of supporters. Manila folder.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Copies of cards collected door to door within Sunnyside Gardens, chiefly during 2005.
The aim was to reach property owners in order to show that an absolute majority supported
designation. (Majority support is not a requirement for designation, but as so many
owners were demonstratively in favor, this was evidence to expedite the political
process by assuring elected officials.) These cards also include many tenants and
enabled the SGPA to build its e-mail and phone networks of supporters in this campaign.
The cards exclude the earliest supporters in Harrison Place, who had already voiced
their support in the petition below. On legal paper.
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2005 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Cover sheet containing "RESOLUTION". May 2003 petition from Harrison Place, a large
homeowners association within Sunnyside Gardens that was the first to determine and
declare the support of the great majority of its members-- in effect prompting the
formation of the SGPA as the neighborhood-wide organization to conduct the campaign
toward designation.
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2003 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
"To the Landmarks Preservation Commission... We the undersigned..." A general petition,
intended for use outside of Sunnyside Gardens, although it includes some signatures
from residents of the neighborhood.
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Testimony-- in those cases where copies were shared with the SGPA-- that was sent
to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) for its April 17, 2007,
Public Hearing on Sunnyside Gardens. Reprints of e-mails [first page headed with "A
sampling of written testimony..."] are followed by photocopies of letters. Pursuant
to this hearing, the Commissioners voted to designate the Sunnyside Gardens Historic
District on June 24, 2007, and the matter was referred to the Department of City Planning
and the City Council.
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2006-2007 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Headed "C - General Information." Testimony-- again, where this was shared with the
SGPA-- from the August 8, 2007, Public Hearing before the Department of City Planning
(also known as the City Planning Commission), whose Commissioners hear and then vote
their approval or disapproval of LPC's designated historic district.
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2007 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Two individual pages add some amplification to the above. A letter from the SGPA,
dated June 11, 2006, addressed to the Chairman of the LPC, sums up the level of support
(as yet incomplete at that date), implicitly to urge the LPC to place Sunnyside Gardens
on its formal calendar for designation. The other page, headed "from the LPC's...
page 3" (reprinting the LPC's summary of its Public Hearing to consider Sunnyside
Gardens' designation), served as a cover sheet for supporting materials, like those
above, which were delivered to members of the City Council in anticipation of their
vote to affirm or overturn the LPC's designation at the conclusion the designation
process in early Fall 2007.
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2006-2007 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Flyers produced by the opponents of Landmarks designation, Dec. 2006 to Spring 2007.
As generally happens during the formal process, once the LPC mails a procedural letter
to every property owner announcing its interest in designation and then holds a public
meeting within the proposed historic district (the Sunnyside Gardens meeting was on
November 29, 2006), opponents are aroused, come to know each other at the meeting,
and begin an opposition campaign.
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2006-2007 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Sunnyside Gardens Historic District, designation report
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2007 |
| Box 1 | DVD-3251 |
Sunnyside Gardens 1924-2014 90th Birthday
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2014 |
| Digital |
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
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Series II. Sunnyside Gardens Oral History Program
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Oral History Program
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2012 |
| Box 1 | CD-1654 |
Oral History Program, document disc
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2012 |
| Box 1 | CD-4954 |
Mary Caulfield interview
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2013 |
| Digital |
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Dorathy A. Cavallo interview
CD-1511 |
2011 |
| Box 1 | CD-4949 |
Herbert Danska interview
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2011 |
| Digital |
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
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| Box 1 | CD-4950 |
Herbert Danska interview
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2011 |
| Digital |
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
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| Box 1 | CD-1652 |
Nesbitt Garmendia interview
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2012 |
| Box 1 | CD-1651 |
Robert Jones interview
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2012 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Marilyn Lutzker interview
CD-1512 |
2012 |
| Box 1 | CD-1649 |
Gerry Modica, 1st interview
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2010 |
| Box 1 | CD-1650 |
Gerry Modica, 2nd interview
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2012 |
| Box 1 | CD-1647 |
Gerald Perrin interview, parts 1 and 2
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1988 |
| Box 1 | CD-1648 |
Gerald Perrin interview, parts 3 and 4
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1988 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Ethel Plimack interview
CD-1513 |
2010 |
| Box 1 | CD-4951 |
Joan Vitolo-Curan interview
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2013 |
| Digital |
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
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| Box 1 | CD-4953 |
Susan Vladeck interview
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2012 |
| Digital |
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
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| Box 1 | CD-1653 |
Liivia Westervelt interview
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2011 |
| Box 1 | CD-4952 |
Liivia Westervelt interview
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2013 |
| Digital |
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
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Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance website
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| Digital |
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
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