Harpo Has Spoken: Now It's Up To The Rest Of Us!

Between NYC Council Members perpetually prowling for campaign contributions from Real Estate Developers to fuel their next election no matter what new office they may seek; a do-nothing-for-anybody-but-themselves Community Board and a Building Department, which under the close watch of Mayor Bloomberg had actually been operating as a public employment agency for one of the most powerful Mafia Crime Families on the East Coast, it's little wonder that Greystone Development, with its stable of New Jersey license plates clogging our street every day, got away with a shocking mid-block incursion on the R8B Zoned Carnegie Hill stretch popularly known as Marx Brothers Place.

But this latest string of criminal indictments not only reveals the NYC Building Department to be far more fox than henhouse, it smacks of the Bloomberg Administration's laissez-faire attitude about who it does business with - just as long as Real Estate Developers don't stand idle. And while all New Yorkers root for renewed and sustainable prosperity for the greatest city in the world, most of us realize that prosperity at any price is not prosperity at all.

The corrosive corruption that has finally eaten through whatever shred of integrity may have been left of NYC's Real Estate Development industry tragically demolished more than historic 19th century houses with great potential: It took with it human lives and all they might have become.

The people of NYC expect and deserve much better from those who have been granted the privilege to make decisions that effect our community, its continued development, its history, the lives of its residents and its future.

As most of you know, Harpo has already spoken on this subject. So now it's time for the rest of us to do the same.

Please take a moment right now to click on this link and send the message to the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission asking LPC Chairman Robert Tierney to calendar the 93rd Street Beautification Association's Request for Evaluation (RFE) for a public hearing to consider the Association's request that LPC extend the Carnegie Hill Historic District one block east to protect the incomparable historic Marx Brothers Place.


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Thanks for your continued interest in historic Marx Brothers Place !

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