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The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) is a non-profit membership organization that seeks to document, honor and preserve the architectural heritage and cultural history of several downtown New York City neighborhoods: Greenwich Village, the Far West Village, the Meatpacking District, the South Village, NoHo, and the East Village. In these historic neighborhoods, GVSHP seeks both to protect historic resources and to monitor new development via an array of advocacy and outreach efforts, involvement in governmental process and public discourse, and educational programs for adults and children. Its work toward securing historic district and landmarks protections, saving significant buildings from demolition, securing contextual zoning for sections of neighborhoods, and right-sizing plans for new construction has earned wide praise from preservation leaders.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation )〕 GVSHP has helped secure designation of ten new historic districts or district extensions, landmark status for dozens of buildings, and four contextual rezonings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation )〕 GVSHP has received numerous distinctions in preservation and real estate circles,〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation )〕 such as the Preservation League of New York State's "Excellence in Historic Preservation Award" for organizational excellence,〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Preservation League of New York State )〕 and Executive Director Andrew Berman's inclusion in the ''The New York Observer's'' "The 100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate." 〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=The New York Observer )〕 ==History== GVSHP was founded in 1980 as the Greenwich Village Trust for Historic Preservation (GVT). In 1982, Regina Kellerman, a prominent architectural historian and co-founder of GVT, was named as its first executive director, and GVT moved its operations to the Salmagundi Club at 47 Fifth Avenue. In 1984, GVT changed its name to the current one, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. Throughout the 1980s, GVSHP initiated research on the history and architecture of Greenwich Village, including subjects like the Gansevoort Meat Market (a joint study with Columbia University), Bleecker Street, Broadway, and maritime history of the Greenwich Village waterfront. In 1991, GVSHP launched its first educational program, “Greenwich Village: History and Historic Preservation,” as a joint effort with the Merchant's House Museum, and, in 1995, designed and published a 12-page children’s workbook, “Discovering Greenwich Village,” for distribution to children in the school program.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation )〕 The education program has since been expanded to include field-trip style walking tours of Greenwich Village, encouraging students to examine the architectural form of Greenwich Village as a manifestation of its social history and context.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation )〕 In the mid-1990s, GVSHP initiated an oral history project to document the experiences of Village preservationists of the twentieth century, many of whom were involved in defeating Robert Moses's Lower Manhattan Expressway. The participants in the oral history project include famous Village residents such as Jane Jacobs, Edwin Fancher, and Doris Diether.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation )〕 Since 1999, GVSHP has operated from the Neighborhood Preservation Center, the former rectory of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, on East 11th Street, and increased its focus on the East Village since moving its office to that neighborhood. Major ongoing efforts include advocacy around the proposed transfer of development rights in Greenwich Village along the Hudson River Park; supporting local independent businesses; and opposing NYU’s expansion plans, as by being a co-plaintiff in a lawsuit to overturn approvals granted for “NYU 2031.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation )〕 The group consistently testifies before the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and monitors applications for alterations to protected buildings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation )〕 , GVSHP is currently pursuing the following projects: *Advocating for South Village rezoning〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation )〕 *Recognizing LGBT landmarks〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation )〕 *Protecting East Village landmarks〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation )〕 *Challenging transfer of Hudson River Park air rights〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation )〕 *Fighting NYU expansion〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation )〕 *Recording oral history〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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