A new era has begun in New York City as Zohran Mamdani’s term as Mayor gets underway. The new Mayor promised a big break from his predecessor and “audacious” strategies for governing New York.  We firmly believe that a break from the failed policies and practices of Mayor Adams as well as other recent administrations is needed. Watch (and share) our video HERE.

Toward that end, Village Preservation wrote to our new Mayor outlining both local and citywide agenda items we hope he will tackle, and diverge from his predecessor’s troubling and wrongheaded approaches — READ OUR LETTER HERE. We’ve also made it even easier for you to let the Mayor know you want preservation as part of his agenda (see below).

We’re calling on Mayor Mamdani to:

• End Mayor Adams’ unprecedented and dismal track record on new landmark designations and aversion to protecting threatened sites, and consider long-proposed and vulnerable historic areas including the proposed South of Union Square Historic District, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Most Holy Redeemer Church. 
• Drop Mayor Adams’ plan for demolition of the landmarked Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, and fulfill the new Mayor’s campaign promise to repair and reopen it. 
• Reconsider Mayor Adams’ oversized and poorly designed plan for 388 Hudson Street. 
• Go back to the drawing board on Mayor Adams’ outrageous plan for a 600-ft.-tall tower filled with luxury condos on public land in the Meatpacking District 
• End the impunity for developers and property owners whose work damages their or others’ older or historic properties, resulting in displacement and loss of older, more affordable housing 
• Support our zoning challenge against the planned 538-ft.-tall luxury condo tower at 5 West 13th Street. 
• Rethink upzoning plans like SoHo/NoHo, which encourage the destruction of existing older and often more affordable housing stock, make neighborhoods more unaffordable not less, fail to meet promises around equity, and destroy neighborhood character and scale 

We urge our new Mayor to make all of these part of his agenda for a better New York — AND YOU CAN TOO!

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