E-BULLETIN OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL
March 2012, Volume 9, Number 5
~Annual Preservation Party and Grassroots Awards!~
Join us for HDC’s Annual Preservation Party and Grassroots Awards. The event will take place on Tuesday, June 5 from 6 to 8pm at the recently reopened, reinvigorated and expanded South Street Seaport Museum at 12 Fulton Street, in Lower Manhattan.
This year we are celebrating The Green-Wood Cemetery, Parkway Village Historical Society, the Coalition to Save Manufacturers Hanover Trust and West End Preservation Society. Our colleagues in the media and government honor goes to, DNAinfo and New York City Council Member Al Vann of Brooklyn’s 36th District; and preservationist and cultural leader Susan Henshaw Jones will receive the Mickey Murphy Award for lifetime achievement.
Get your tickets as a Co-Sponsor today! Your donation will help fund HDC’s much-needed advocacy and outreach for neighborhood preservation initiatives. Sponsorship start at $100 for four tickets to the event and listing in the invitation, program book and on the HDC website. Additional opportunities are available on the HDC website.
In order to have your organization’s name listed on the invitation, please RSVP by Friday, April 13. If you have any questions in the interim, please feel to contact Frampton Tolbert at 212-614-9107 or [email protected] or visit http://hdc.org/program-events/grassroots for more information.
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~Help Save a Historic Chelsea Church~
St. Vincent de Paul, located at 127 West 23rd Street, is home to NYC’s last-remaining French-speaking Catholic parish. Despite widespread and vocal support including an appeal to Mayor Bloomberg by Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, the LPC still has yet to commit to a hearing.
Since 1841, the church has been a center of NYC’s French-American community—Edith Piaf was married there in 1951 with Marlene Dietrich as her bridesmaid—and a standard bearer of social justice. In fact, its school was the first in the city to integrate. Today its diverse congregation boasts congregants from France, Francophone Africa, Haiti, Southeast Asia, and beyond. Fears that the Archdiocese will sell the valuable Chelsea site to a developer are only exacerbated by the fact that church leaders won’t accept supporters’ offers to pay for repairs to damages the church roof sustained in Hurricane Irene.
Please send your letter of support right away to the Mayor and the LPC, telling them to protect St.Vincent de Paul. (It’s real easy, go to the website: www.SaveStVincentdePaul.org)
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