Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance records, 2003-2007.

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Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance records, 2003-2007.

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.

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New York (N.Y.). Landmarks Preservation Commission

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Under the 1990 Charter of the City of New York, Chapter 21-A, the Landmarks Preservation Commission, a part of the Department of Parks and Recreation, was established as a separate city agency. The composition of the 11-member Commission includes three architects, one historian qualified in the field, one city planner or landscape architect, one realtor, and one resident of each of the five boroughs of the City. Appointed by the mayor for three year terms of office, memb...

Stein, Clarence S.

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Architect, city planner (lived 1882-1975). Clarence S. Stein began his career as an architect, but turned his attention to planning by the early 1920s. From 1923 to 1926 he was chairman of the New York State Housing and Regional Planning Commission and was among the founders of the Regional Plan Association in 1923. With his partner Henry Wright, he was a leading proponent of the "garden city" concept of planning. He designed or participated in the design of Sunnyside Ga...

Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance.

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Neighborhood organization "dedicated to the preservation and revitalization of the Sunnyside Gardens National Register Historic District." From the guide to the Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance records, 2003-2007., (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 Distri...