Preserving the Heights Conference
Altshul Auditorium, Columbia University. Saturday May 15, 1993 9:30 AM - 5:15 PM
9:30-10:00 REGISTRATION
10:00-12:45 GENERAL SESSION,
Altshul Auditorium
CALL TO ORDER
- Samuel Gruber, Conference Chair
REMARKS
- State Senator Franz Leichter
KEYNOTE
- James Marton Fitch, Emeritus Director, Historic Preservation
Program, School of Architecture, Columbia University
PANEL
- "A Morningside Heights Historic District with Contextual Zoning?"
Peter Marcuse, Prof. of Urban Planning, Columbia University
Eric Allison, Pres., Historic Districts Council
Michael Adams, Pres., Upper Manhattan Society for Progress Through
Preservation
Samuel Gruber, World Monuments Fund & Morningside Heights Residents
Association
Carolyn C. Kent, Landmarks Committee, Community Board 9M & Morningside
Heights Residents Association
Edward Rubin, Chair, Land Use Committee, Community Board 6M & East Side
Rezoning Alliance
Michael Kwartler, Director, Environmental Simulation Laboratory, New
School for Social Research
OBSERVATIONS
C. Virginia Fields, City Council Member for Morningside Heights
SUMMARY OF WORKSHOP TOPICS Bob Roistacher,
Acting Chair, Morningside Heights Residents Association
12:45-1:45 LUNCH BREAK
1:45-3:45 WORKSHOPS:
PREPARING LANDMARK DESIGNATIONS
Samuel Gruber, World Monuments Fund
Gretchen Borges, Local Resident
Marjorie Pearson, Director of Research, NYC Landmarks Preservation
Commission
HELPING THE HOMELESS, HELPING OURSELVES
Rev. William Starr, Adjunct, Program in Urban Planning, Columbia
University School of Architecture & Planning
Laura Friedman, West Side Cares & Democratic District Leader
Ted Houghton, Coalition for the Homeless
WHERE DO WE PUT THE COLUMBIA BRANCH,
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE NEXT
METHADONE CLINIC?
Bob Roistacher, Local Resident
Assemblyman Edward C. Sullivan
Sandy Polsak, Director of Plant Mangement & Construction, New York
Public Library
FACADES: JEOPARDY AND RESTORATION
Carolyn Kent, Community Board 9 & MH Historic District Committee
Theresa Radka, Architectural Conservator & Designer, Jan Hird Porkorny,
Architects & Planners
James Mahoney, NY Landmarks Conservancy
Richard Moses, NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
Ronald L. Melichar, Director, Commercial Revitalization Program, NYC
Department of Business Services
Dean Koga, Robert E Meadows PC, Architects
MAINTAINING OUR PARKS AND GARDENS
Charles McKinney, Administrator, Riverside Park,
NYC Parks Dept.
Debbie King, Riverside Parks Fund
William Bryant Logan, Writer-in-Residence, Cathedral Church of St. John
the Divine
Carol Weinstein, Friends of Morningside Park
Barbara Platt, Chair, Community Board 9 Parks Committee
Georette Helms, Superintendent, Manhattan Sites, Nat'l Parks Svc.
CONTEXTUAL ZONING - HOW DO WE GET IT?
David Freudenthal, Office of the Manhattan
Borough President
Bob Roistacher, Local Resident
3:45-4:45 GENERAL SESSION
REPORTS FROM THE WORKSHOPS
CLOSING REMARKS - Assemblyman Edward C. Sullivan
4:45-5:15 WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
Architectural Walking Tour: Sunday May 16, 1993
Meet on the Steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine at 3:30 PM.
Your guide is Samuel Gruber, Architectural Historian.
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