Fwd: SAMPLE EMAIL I SENT TO RESIDENTS IN MY BUILDING

[Kahanov Learan]

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Learan Kahanov

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From: "Busi, Kimberly" <Kimber...@nyumc.org>
Date: January 16, 2010 6:16:44 PM EST
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Subject: SAMPLE EMAIL I SENT TO RESIDENTS IN MY BUILDING

There is a school zoning war being decided this week that effects us all, whether or not we have kids-the outcome could dramatically reduce our property value and cleave in half our community - one of the options sends our kids to Battery Park City to school, instead of our neighborhood school, The Spruce Street School.

BACKROUND:  There are 4 schools in Lower Manhattan below Canal, 2 of them coming online this year: the Spruce Street School and the Battery Park City School.  Thus, zoning lines are being redrawn for the all of Lower Manhattan for these 4 schools.  PS 234 in Tribeca has long been a coveted school, and increased tribeca property value.  But, all of tribeca doesn't fit into 234, and thus the zoning wars began.  There are 2 Proposals, Option 2 and Option 3R that have made it to the finals.  Option 2 severs Fidi below Liberty and sends our kids to South Battery Park City for school. It also severs South Battery Park City, but sending half that neighborhood to PS 89 in North Battery Park City.   Proposal 3R preserves our community and our property value by keeping our kids in the Spruce Street Zone and both neighborhoods intact.  I am currently at Spruce.  While both schools are excellent and have been given raves, Proposal 2 makes no sense for the communities they are in, but has garnered alot of support from residents in the Whole Foods Building who want to preserve their property value.  In Option 3R, they would have to cross 1 extra block (the west side highway at chambers) and attend another A+ school, PS 89.  They have been very vocal and are winning this war  (and they are winning, we have an uphill battle) by arguing :
1. it is unsafe for their kids to cross WSH (but OK for our kids to do so)
2. by telling the politicians that they are representing the South Financial District and South Battery Park City - which is a blatant lie, but we haven't been vocal enough
3. by overwhelming meetings with their presence
4.  They have targeted all local politicians and have gotten face time with all of them and have overwhelmed them with emails and petitions, and have some extremely financially powerful residents bragging that they will "never have to go to 89" , including the developer of the Whold Foods Building.

The body that decides zoning is a District 2 group called the CEC (district 2 is HUGE and covers all of east side and lower manhattan, including the village, the upper east side, etc.  Most of these CEC folks live outside our community, thus are very susceptible to the shenanigans of the folks who call themselves the "Southwest Tribeca Coilition" to cover up that they really represent 2 buildings.  However, due to some massive advocacy last week, the rest of Lower Manhattan has been  mobilizing and got 1000 signatures to show we represent the majority of Lower Manhattan.  We presented this at the CEC meeting this past Wednesday and had a major victory in that we turned a sure 9-1 loss into a tie - thus buying us 2 extra weeks to really win our case.

YOU MUST ACT IMMEDIATELY TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY, OUR PROPERTY VALUES, AND OUR KIDS!!!!

1.  Sign the petition in our lobby.  There is a map with the 2 propsals and facts.  If there is more than one in an apartment, both sign.  Include your apt 3.  We were told we can prevail but we need another 1000 signatures to make our point by Tuesday the 19th.

2.  Go to the meeting this Tuesday and sign up to speak: 5:30 at Pace University Civic Union.  Don't want to speak - just show up and wear black - and SHOW them that privledged residents of 2 buidlings cannot tear apart communities for their own personal gain.

3.  EMAIL NOW: your support to the following (send one email to all) - they are counting emails seriously - and by address - you must put you address !  again, 2 members of the household- send 2 emails

****on subject line must include Financial District and I support 3R*******

d2zo...@gmail.com; c...@cb1.org; jsilver@manhattanbporg; ma...@danielsquadron.org; squa...@senate.state.ny.us; ma...@cb.nyc.gov; ch...@council.nyc.gov; b...@manhattanbp.org; jsi...@manhattanbp.org; spe...@nysa.us; gol...@nysa.us; gli...@nysa.us; bi...@nysa.us; jkl...@schools.nyc.gov; ero...@schools.nyc.gov

SAMPLE EMAIL:

Dear Community Board Members,

I, along with many, many other residents of the Financial District & Seaport, am extremely upset at the lack of consideration for option 3R school zoning. My family and I have been residents of the FIDI for the past 3 years; we chose this neighborhood specifically because of its growing community of young families and the proximity of Spruce St. School. The FIDI children understand their neighborhood as being bound by Spruce Street on the north, Broadway on the West, Broad Street on the south, and Water Street on the East.  The children in this community have been growing up together, and they belong together in the same school in their own neighborhood.

If it can be agreed that the definition of “Community” is “Same people, same place”, then Proposal 2 is designed to break our community. If this was not your intention, then you cannot vote for option 2; option 3R is the only reasonable choice.

The obvious dangers of crossing West Street have been made abundantly clear in many other letters to you; I won’t go into detail here other than going on the record that it is UNACCEPTABLE to send the kids across this busy highway twice a day for every school day of the year.  From growing up here, the streets within the FIDI are already well known to the children; this knowledge and comfort should be taken advantage of.  Disruption makes no sense.

You will also be aware that most of the debate around the 3 proposals has been around how Tribeca is being split up to send its kids to either PS 234 and PS 89. As far as I am aware there is no opposition to the entirety of the FIDI kids being sent to Spruce Street School – on the contrary, there is only direct support for this.   The school has the capacity and the community has the desire. This needs to be respected by the Community Board. PLEASE VOTE FOR PROPOSAL 3R.

Thank you for your consideration, this is an extremely important and heartfelt matter for us in the FIDI and Seaport.

Respectfully,


Feel free to email me for questions, to take you through data, or suggestions!

Kimberly Busi and Oreste Drapaca, Apt 605
917-495-0635

   
   

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[Anna Fader]

Thank you for sending this. I live at 145 Nassau, right next to the Gehry building. I have been watching this closely and I agree that it is a shame that the conversation is being monopolized by the Tribeca residents. I am happy to see that a FiDi voice is finally rising and I hope that this voice will continue to grow as our community has it's own school to ground it. I also think that proposal 3R will be good for PS 89 because it is a wonderful school that is hurt by the transient population of BPC. Bringing more of the stable lower Tribeca community will help that community flourish also. 

I will distribute this message in my building. 

Anna


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