2025 Candidate Forums on Preservation Issues Complete: Watch Mayor, BP, City Council

On Wednesday, we held our final forum with 2025 candidates on preservation issues, this time with candidates for District 3 (West Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen) including incumbent Erik Bottcher and challengers Louis Flores and Dominick Romeo. Watch the video:

This was our fifth forum with candidates for office in NYC in 2025 on preservation issues, which included those running for citywide, boroughwide, and local offices. Watch:

More on all our candidate forums HERE. 

The more people view these forums, the more candidates know that preservation matters to New Yorkers. That’s critical, because many falsely claim that preservation measures are a cause of our city’s housing affordability challenges, even though older buildings are often a source of affordable housing, preserving historic sites doesn’t drive up housing costs, and building more and larger unaffordable housing (as many recent measures push) hurts rather than helps affordability. Village Preservation issued a policy brief on affordability and preservation that’s been distributed to all City leaders and elected officials. We’re calling on them to recognize that preservation and affordability not only aren’t at odds, but can and should go hand in hand.

TO HELP:

Tell City leaders to support preservation, and oppose the notion that it harms rather than helps affordability — CLICK HERE
May 9, 2025