Save The Bowery

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To: New York City Council, New York Department of City Planning

PETITION TO REZONE THE BOWERY

We, as residents and shopkeepers who live and/or work in the vicinity of the Bowery, support the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors rezoning principles and respectfully request that the east side of the Bowery be rezoned utilizing BANs rezoning principles:

1. Preserve the Character of the Bowery by creating a Bowery Special District.

The Bowery has a rich, diverse, unique history and has always had an important role in the City of New York. Its history should be respected and preserved. T he Bowery is a convergence of low-rise, low-density communities that are protected by zoning to preserve context.


The City has recognized the historic significance of the Bowery by protecting the west side of the Bowery in the Special Little Italy District and the NoHo Historic District. T he East Village/Lower East Side Rezoning Plan will now protect the area just east of the Bowery. However, the east side of the Bowery itself has been left out of all these rezonings.


The east side of the Bowery should be rezoned to ensure that it is in context to the rest of the community -- the Special Little Italy District, the NoHo Historic District, and the East Village/Lower East Side. If the Bowery is not rezoned, the result will be a wall of out-of-scale, luxury development that will negatively impact these districts and undermine the goals of contextual zoning in the area.

2. Protect commercial districts by not upzoning this area.

The low-rise, affordable character of the Bowery will be destroyed if this area is upzoned. T he east side of the Bowery is already becoming gentrified with a growing number of massive, out-of-character, boutique hotels and upscale business establishments. Upzoning will encourage more luxury housing and more upscale businesses, displacing the Bowery Lighting, Restaurant and Jewelry Commercial Districts.

3. Create permanent affordable housing to protect Bowery residents.

New York City has always been home to residents of diverse income levels. T here are many low-and middle-income residents who live on the Bowery in tenements and single-occupancy hotels. These residents should be protected from harassment and displacement. In addition, permanent affordable housing should be created, perhaps using the 421-A program to insure that people of diverse income levels continue to call the Bowery home.

51 Signatures

  • Roberta Degnore
    • Address
    • 251 West 92 Street
    • Comments
    • Saving the Bowery is critical to the fabric of this neighborhood.
  • Andrea Raskin
  • Lillian Tozzi
    • Address
    • Little Italy, New York
    • Comments
    • We MUST preserve the Bowery. It is a part of NYC history.
  • Sara Driver
    • Address
    • 184 Bowery
    • Comments
    • Infrastructure is in trouble due to out of control building.
  • Patricia McHugh
  • michael Chiara
    • Address
    • 139 Mulberry St. Apt. 9
    • Comments
    • do what the banner says: SAVE THE BOWERY FROM PREDATORY DEVELOPMENT!!!!!
  • jill Chiara
    • Address
    • 139 Mulberry St. Apt. 6
  • Ellen Peterson-Lewis
  • Stephanie Chernikowski
    • Address
    • The Bowery b/n E. 2nd and E.3rd
    • Comments
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  • Cynthia Womersley
    • Address
    • 79 Sullivan Street
  • Frank Mazzetti
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    • К
    • Comments
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  • Eva Allen
    • Comments
    • stop turning this city into a big strip mall
  • michele campo
    • Address
    • bowery between spring/delancey sts.
    • Comments
    • the Dept. of City Planning & the current administration of NYC must be responsive to, and will be held accountable by, the NYC residents, business owners & their employees - especially of The Bowery area. This is a neighborhood -a diverse community of small businesses and long term residents. --------The low scale historic buildings represent the roots of our city. ------ Let the scale of the protected west side (LISD) encompass the east side of The Bowery. -----Contextually This Is LOGICAL!
  • Elliott Hurwitt
    • Address
    • 130 Mulberry St.
    • Comments
    • The remaining 19th century building stock on the Bowery should be preserved in its entirety. This historic street saw the birth of minstrelsy in the 1800s, was later the heart of New York's German theater district, was where Stephen Foster died and Irving Berlin got his start in show business, and included such landmarks as Sammy's Bowery Follies, where the great photographer "Weegee" (Arthur Felig) immortalized the comical underbelly of the City's entertainment world. It should be a historic district.
  • Elizabeth Ellis Hurwitt
    • Address
    • 130 Mulberry Street #2, NYC 10013
    • Comments
    • The Bowery has an illustrious past that must not be effaced.
  • Jade Doskow
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    • В
    • Comments
    • В
  • john Campo
    • Address
    • 184 Bowery NY, NY 10012-4626
    • Comments
    • A once in a lifetime chance to have the Bowery live up to a higher ideal, greed has been here too long .
  • William Ryman
  • Heidi Becker
  • Janet Kern
    • Address
    • 256 Mott Street
    • Comments
    • Little Italy has missed an opportuinity to take more contraol of development, much to the loss of that community's aghitectural and cultural integrity. We should avoid that same mistake regarding the colorful, culturally rich Bowery.
  • Tim Compton
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    • В
    • Comments
    • В
  • Phyllis Bloom
  • Zui Hanafusa
    • Comments
    • Erase history and the foundation of what was special about NYC is no different than garbage being made and built in the world...
  • Alexandra Momin
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    • В
    • Comments
    • В
  • Patricia Cassinelli
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    • 513 Leavenworth Street Manhattan KS
    • Comments
    • I lived in NY several years. Each neighborhood has it's unique character. I know residents in the Bowery that desire to maintain the character their neighborhood has to offer.
  • Liz Tevelow
    • Address
    • Washington DC
    • Comments
    • As a frequent visitor, I concur with this petition.
  • Carla Tevelow
  • Linda Blader
    • Comments
    • The unique character of this neighborhood needs to be maintained and remain free of the trendy business establishments that can be found throughout the city.
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  • Laura Duprey
  • myriam-regine zwierzinska
    • Address
    • 11 prince street
    • Comments
    • stop destroying the Bowery
  • Victor Vitelli
    • Address
    • Lyon, France
    • Comments
    • Having lived outside of New York City on the old continent for six years now, I see daily the need to invest in and preserve the historic character of an existing community and its architecture. Neighborhoods that were lost are now gone forever -and their physical history with them. Repair and update the structures and infrastructures, leaving the community intact. It is the neighborhood's existing spirit that makes it attractive, not just its price per square foot. Take away the architecture and the inhabitants and what have you got? Hasn't NYC got enough brownfield to develop? Please let its communities evolve at their natural rhythm, not at a developer's.
  • Jeffrey Lewis
    • Address
    • 1375 Broadway
  • Susanna Woodward
  • Mitchell Grubler
    • Address
    • 20 Confucius Plaza, Apt. 40C, NY, NY 10002
    • Comments
    • I have lived on the east side of the Bowery for more than four years. As a Bowery resident and stakeholder, I look to DCP to rezone the east side of the Bowery to align it with the zoning on the west side of the Bowery.
  • Jen Hershberger
  • Judy Samuels
    • Address
    • Columbus Ave. & 76th Street
    • Comments
    • This is the last straw. Do not eviscerate New York City. History will be severe in its assessment of your thoughtless actions.
  • Amos Tevelow
  • rosemary lohin
    • Address
    • 266 Bowery
  • Barbara London
    • Address
    • Bowery & Houston
    • Comments
    • I, a long time resident of the Bowery, want to save the East and West side of the street from over development. We have already lost our sunrise.
  • Jo Ann Higgins
    • Address
    • 55 W. 14th Street, NY, NY 10011
    • Comments
    • We cannot allow the last vestiges of our beloved Bowery to be totally and irrevocably modernised by these insensitive developers. This is the last chance we have to save a very important piece of NYC history.
  • David E Ferry
    • Address
    • 275 Mott Street
  • Jean Standish
    • Address
    • New York
    • Comments
    • The Bowery is a unique, historic community that would be devastated by the proposed massive, out-of-scale development on the east side of the Bowery.
  • mike Poindexter
    • Address
    • 8 spring st.
  • Mike Brown Jr
  • aloe ballaudo
    • Address
    • 89 bowery #4
  • Kate Donnelly
    • Address
    • В
    • Comments
    • В
  • Dolores Lyach
  • Christina Carr
    • Address
    • 14 Spring Street NY NY 10012
  • Mette Madsen
    • Address
    • 184 Bowery #2, N.Y.C.