support for the landmark application of Banca Stabile Row at 181 - 189 Grand St. in NYC Little Italy
Banca Stabile Petition
TO: Robert B. Tierney, Chairman
NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
One Centre Street, 9thFloor North
New York, NY 10007
We, the undersigned, urge the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission to calendar for a public hearing the historic Banca Stabile Row at 181-189 Grand Street in Little Italy. No commercial building within the Chinatown & Little Italy National Register Historic District is more symbolic of the Italian-American history of Little Italy than the Stabile Bank. The misguided plan to evict the tenants and sell the historic buildings to a tear-down developer would drastically and irreversibly alter the very character of traditional Little Italy and further diminish what is left of Italian culture in this city.
Updates
November 6, 2013
The petition for the preservation of Banca Stabile Row has reached two hundred and fifty signatures. This achievement confirms that the cultural heritage of Grand Street remains a priority for our community.
Reached 250 supporters
November 5, 2013
August 19, 2013
The petition has reached one hundred signatures in support of preserving the Banca Stabile Row. This milestone demonstrates a clear interest in protecting the architectural heritage of Little Italy.
Reached 100 supporters
August 17, 2013
54 Comments
this is such a classic of the neighborhood it deserves to remain--to keep Little Italy really Little Italy. Please official recognize 181-189 Grand Street the landmark it truly is.
Little Italy has already shrunk so much since i moved to Soho in 1979. Taken over by boutiques east of Broadway and by the encroachment of Chinatown from the south. Let's save what is left of this important part of the City. There are enough ugly condo towers...
Put all the artifacts you want in a new building, but it will never add up to the biggest artifact, which the very building that stood, and represented, from the birth to the slow death of Little Italy. There is no better way to preserve a bit of LI than to protect this building.
As historic and significant as these buildings are, they have been rejected by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. It is up to the community and its elected representatives to advocate for the recognition and preservation of this landmark of Italian American history!
I was born and raised at 203 Grand St. Please lets not sacrifice this piece of history to the hands greedy restate deveolpers. We New Yorkers deserve physical makers of our city's past.
I know its to late now but I am furious. We can not allow anymore development in little Italy or it will forever be destroyed due to the loss of character. Both my parents were born there and even tho I was born in Brooklyn I still basically grew up in love with Little Italy. We need to do something. There is enough Italians in the Tri state area that we can make a diffrence, they cant knock down a building if we occupy it. We need to do something. they keep showing that we have no more voice, well we need to show them that they are wrong. My number is 718-530-4733 call me if you want to do something.
I've lived on Mulberry Street for 40 years, and Stabile Bros. bank was my landlord. This building must be saved at all cost, and should have been designated an internal as well as external landmark years ago, for the original teller cages and other details that could be found nowhere else. It is central to the identity of Little Italy. The corner of Mulberry and Grand is the ONLY intact crossroads of Little Italy In demolishing those 3 very old houses on the corner of Mulberry and Grand Streets, Joseph Scelsa is doing far more harm to Little Italy than the good his museum can ever do it. Real history can't be saved by destroying it.
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support for the landmark application of Banca Stabile Row at 181 - 189 Grand St. in NYC Little Italy
Banca Stabile Petition
TO: Robert B. Tierney, Chairman
NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
One Centre Street, 9thFloor North
New York, NY 10007
We, the undersigned, urge the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission to calendar for a public hearing the historic Banca Stabile Row at 181-189 Grand Street in Little Italy. No commercial building within the Chinatown & Little Italy National Register Historic District is more symbolic of the Italian-American history of Little Italy than the Stabile Bank. The misguided plan to evict the tenants and sell the historic buildings to a tear-down developer would drastically and irreversibly alter the very character of traditional Little Italy and further diminish what is left of Italian culture in this city.
Updates
November 6, 2013
The petition for the preservation of Banca Stabile Row has reached two hundred and fifty signatures. This achievement confirms that the cultural heritage of Grand Street remains a priority for our community.
Reached 250 supporters
November 5, 2013
August 19, 2013
The petition has reached one hundred signatures in support of preserving the Banca Stabile Row. This milestone demonstrates a clear interest in protecting the architectural heritage of Little Italy.
Reached 100 supporters
August 17, 2013
54 Comments
These are the most symbolic buildings of N.Y.C. Italian Heritage. They are not replaceable at any cost. They have been maintained in almost mint condition for centuries. Please preserve at any cost.
this is such a classic of the neighborhood it deserves to remain--to keep Little Italy really Little Italy. Please official recognize 181-189 Grand Street the landmark it truly is.
Little Italy has already shrunk so much since i moved to Soho in 1979. Taken over by boutiques east of Broadway and by the encroachment of Chinatown from the south. Let's save what is left of this important part of the City. There are enough ugly condo towers...
Put all the artifacts you want in a new building, but it will never add up to the biggest artifact, which the very building that stood, and represented, from the birth to the slow death of Little Italy. There is no better way to preserve a bit of LI than to protect this building.
As historic and significant as these buildings are, they have been rejected by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. It is up to the community and its elected representatives to advocate for the recognition and preservation of this landmark of Italian American history!
I was born and raised at 203 Grand St. Please lets not sacrifice this piece of history to the hands greedy restate deveolpers. We New Yorkers deserve physical makers of our city's past.
I know its to late now but I am furious. We can not allow anymore development in little Italy or it will forever be destroyed due to the loss of character. Both my parents were born there and even tho I was born in Brooklyn I still basically grew up in love with Little Italy. We need to do something. There is enough Italians in the Tri state area that we can make a diffrence, they cant knock down a building if we occupy it. We need to do something. they keep showing that we have no more voice, well we need to show them that they are wrong. My number is 718-530-4733 call me if you want to do something.
I've lived on Mulberry Street for 40 years, and Stabile Bros. bank was my landlord. This building must be saved at all cost, and should have been designated an internal as well as external landmark years ago, for the original teller cages and other details that could be found nowhere else. It is central to the identity of Little Italy. The corner of Mulberry and Grand is the ONLY intact crossroads of Little Italy In demolishing those 3 very old houses on the corner of Mulberry and Grand Streets, Joseph Scelsa is doing far more harm to Little Italy than the good his museum can ever do it. Real history can't be saved by destroying it.
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These are the most symbolic buildings of N.Y.C. Italian Heritage. They are not replaceable at any cost. They have been maintained in almost mint condition for centuries. Please preserve at any cost.