It's an image of another, much simpler time.
"Andrew Berman" is an architectural and cultural heritage preservationist in New York City, known for being an advocate of affordable housing, and LGBT rights. Berman was named executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP), neighborhood preservation organization in New York City, in 2002.
Andrew Berman has served on the boards of the New York State Tenants and Neighbors Coalition, Housing Conservation Coordinators, the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club, the Hell’s Kitchen Neighborhood Association, and was a founding member of the West Side Neighborhood Alliance and Friends of Pier 84. Berman was also a plaintiff in the lawsuit to remove private helicopter service from the Hudson River Park.
Since 2002, GVSHP, under Berman's leadership, has secured landmark and zoning protections in the South Village, the Meatpacking District, along the Greenwich Village waterfront, and in the East Village. The organization also led campaigns against development plans by Donald Trump and New York University. Berman’s preservation advocacy also has focused on the preservation of the history of typically underrepresented groups, as well as sites and structures previously considered unworthy of preservation, including migrant history and working-class and tenement architecture.
More Andrew Berman on Wikipedia.This is something that so many people have fought so long for, and it has finally come to fruition. We can finally rest easy that our neighborhood will be preserved.
There may be a few real estate speculators who have been eyeing this area and are not happy. But that's OK, they already have had more than their share of the fun.
Whether you live in the Village or not people love this neighborhood. They feel a part of it, they feel connected to it; that's one of the things that make it so great.
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