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Hon. Robert Tierney
Chair, NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
One Centre Street, 9th floor
New York, NY 10007
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Re: Support for Historic District Designation of the South Village
Dear Chair Tierney:
In light of the LPC’s recent actions to protect Mill’s House No.3, and in light of its past actions to honor and preserve other examples of reform housing and sites which relate to the history of housing for the poor and working class in New York City, I strongly urge you to move to landmark the remainder of the proposed South Village Historic District as soon as possible.
The South Village contains an incredible array and concentration of reform housing and institutions established to serve and improve the lives of poor and working class New Yorkers, including Mill’s House No.1, which predates Mill’s House No.3 by ten years. Additionally, the South Village has perhaps the largest intact concentration of tenements in New York City of every conceivable size and configuration, included upgraded tenements and those still in their original condition. It also contains an incredible concentration of “tenementized” rowhouses, illustrating the profound influence that the flood of immigrants which came to New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries had on the built environment, and the conditions which they lived under.
Unlike Mill’s House No.3, however, the South Village is imminently threatened. Too many of its buildings and historic sites have been lost in recent years, and I fear more will be lost if the city does not act soon.
PLEASE LANDMARK THE REMAINDER OF THE SOUTH VILLAGE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
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