Committee Moves To Landmark Far W. Village
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In response to fervent community activism, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission is working quickly to landmark parts of the far West Village. It held a well-attended hearing yesterday on two proposals, an extension of the Greenwich Village Historic District and the new Weehawken Street Historic District.
Local politicians and residents of the village testified that they were worried the neighborhood would be swallowed by new development. Assembly Mem ber Deborah Glick expressed concern over what she called the “gold rush” on local real estate.
The executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, Andrew Berman, described the hearing as “historic.” Though activists have been campaigning on the neighborhood’s behalf for decades, these landmarks would be the first major action to preserve the village since 1969.
The chairman of the Commission, Robert Tierney, said that a vote on the proposals would come in a matter of months.
