West End Preservation Society is an award winning, non-profit organization.

Our mission is to preserve and protect West End Avenue. We strive to ensure that the architecture and ambience of West End Avenue will endure for generations to come, even in the face of major development. To that end, we are proposing to the Landmarks Preservation Commission that they extend the existing historic districts of WEA to include the length of the Avenue from 70th to 107th Street.

On March 18, 2009 WEPS formally submitted our request for evaluation for a West End Avenue Historic District to the New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission. Included with our request was a letter to Chair Robert Tierney, a bound copy of Andrew Dolkart's, 260 page, West End Avenue Survey and copies of the signatures collected for our ongoing Petition.

Separately, a letter in support of this proposal and signed by our elected officials was hand delivered to the LPC by the Manhattan Borough President's office. We thank the MBP's office for coordinating this effort and we thank the elected officials for their support of a West End Historic District.

Achieving historic district status continues to be the top priority of the Society. We need to keep this issue alive and well until the LPC designates. Once that has been accomplished, we can devote our attention to other issues facing residents. We look forward to further success working with the community to preserve, protect, inform and beautify our West End neighborhood.

 

Richard D. Emery, President

Erika Petersen, Vice-President & Secretary

Farid Moussavi, Treasurer