CECPP 2nd Anniversary House Party

Come Celebrate With Your Neighbors!

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
6:00 PM

Hosted by
Ann Walker Gaffney and Everett Ortner
272 Berkeley Place, Park Slope
(near Grand Army Plaza)

You are invited for drinks and an update on CECPP’s campaign to save the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. It’s been nearly two years since the first “Preservation Summit” when over 150 concerned preservationists like you came together to act on the dire state of historic preservation in New York City. At risk then - and now - is a Landmarks Commission that is under-funded, under-staffed, and unable to fulfill its legal responsibility under the NYC Landmarks Law. You and your neighbors spoke out, and CECPP has been working hard to secure the LPC’s ability to protect New York’s most beloved historic places through adequate funding, operational transparency and political independence.

The enthusiastic support of people like you, who fight to preserve the landmarks and communities of our great city, keeps CECPP going strong. What better reason to celebrate, and what better place to raise your glass, than the Park Slope brownstone home so lovingly restored by Everett and Evelyn Ortner, leading pioneers of New York’s preservation movement.

Welcoming Remarks By

Anthony C. Wood, author of

Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks
Copies will be available of this hot-off-the-press story of the people and places, the buildings and battles, and the policies and politics that led to New York’s historic Landmarks Law

“Vigilance is the price of preservation.” Edward R. Finch, Jr., 1965
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Drinks and light food will be served. There is no charge for this event (but please bring your checkbook – it’s a fund-raiser for CECPP, in case you’re inspired…)

RSVP citizens@savelpc.org, 212-380-8612

CECPP Steering Committee

Eric Allison Educator
Hal Bromm Real Estate Consultant
Jeffrey Kroessler Historian
Anthony C. Wood Preservation Historian
William E. Davis, Jr. Architect Acting Chair
W.N. Seymour, Jr. Lawyer Acting Secretary
Kate Wood Preservationist Acting Treasurer