Records of the Working Group at Park West Village
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Park West Village (PWV) was developed in the late-1950s and early-1960s as part of a government-subsidized urban redevelopment project on Manhattan's Upper West Side; located between 97th to 100th streets, Central Park West, and Columbus Avenue. The Working Group at Park West Village began in 2009 to define and represent the community's interests. Records of the Working Group at Park West Village (2011-2017) consist of legal documents on paper and electronic files that offer insight to the Park West Village community's opposition to the Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged, operated by the New Jewish Home, on proposing construction of a twenty-story nursing home on the Upper West Side of New York City. The records consist primarily of expert, political, and community testimonies, preliminary and final reports of the New York State Department of Health Environment Impact Studies (FEIS), which the Working Group forced by uncovering and sourcing toxins, and traces of lead in the proposed building space. The records also include letters and signatures of protest addressed to the New York State Department of Health from members of the Park West Village community, parents, faculty, and other members of Public School 163 (P.S. 163) who shared their concerns about the dangers of exposing students to lead. The materials also contain court transcripts, affidavits, documents on open space and zoning issues raised by the Working Group at the New York City Board of Standards and Appeals, and the legal judgments that followed.
Historical Note
Park West Village (PWV) was developed in the late-1950s and early-1960s as part of a government-subsidized urban redevelopment project on Manhattan's Upper West Side; located between 97th to 100th streets, Central Park West, and Columbus Avenue. The PWV includes approximately five-thousand resident condominium owners, rent stabilized, and market rate tenants. The Working Group at Park West Village began in 2009 to define and represent the community's interests against the proposals and development of the Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged on West 100th street.
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This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
Records of the Working Group at Park West Village (2011-2017) consist of legal documents on paper and electronic files that offer insight to the Park West Village community's opposition to the Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged, operated by the New Jewish Home, on proposing construction of a twenty-story nursing home on the Upper West Side of New York City. The records consist primarily of expert, political, and community public comments and testimonies, preliminary and final reports of the New York State Department of Health Environment Impact Studies, which the Working Group forced by uncovering and sourcing toxins, and traces of lead in the proposed building space. The records also include letters and petitions of protest addressed to the New York State Department of Health from members of the Park West Village community, parents, faculty, and other members of Public School 163 (P.S. 163) who shared their concerns about the dangers of exposing students to lead. The materials also contain court transcripts, affidavits, documents on open space and zoning issues raised by the Working Group at the New York City Board of Standards and Appeals, and the legal judgments that followed.
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Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Working Group at Park West Village, the creator of this collection, were relinquished and transferred to the public domain in February 2019 by Win Armstrong. These materials are governed by a Creative Commons CC0 license, which permits publication and reproduction of materials accompanied by full attribution. See, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Records of the Working Group at Park West Village; TAM 780; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Win Armstrong in February 2019. The accession number associated with this gift is 2019.046.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Advance notice is required for the use of computer records. Original physical digital media is restricted. An access terminal for born-digital materials in the collection is available by appointment for reading room viewing and listening only. Researchers may view an item's original container and/or carrier, but the physical carriers themselves are not available for use because of preservation concerns.
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Processing Information
At the time of accessioning, materials were placed in new acid-free folders and boxes. Loose materials were foldered.
Optical discs were identified, inventoried, and forensically imaged and processed in Forensic Toolkit. New York University Libraries follows professional standards and best practices when imaging, ingesting, and processing born-digital material in order to maintain the integrity of the content.
In December 2019 folders were labeled based on their contents.
In February 2025, new digital objects for processed electronic records were created to conform to current practices. Related files in the inventory were reorganized so that individual formats were listed separately.
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Newspaper Clipping, 2016
Open Letter From Stakeholders of the Park West Village Neighborhood, 2011-02-07
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Signed Petition to Governor Cuomo, 2013-06-06
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New York State Department of Health: Preliminary Environmental Assessment, June 2013
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Scoping Meeting Documents, 2013-07
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Public Comments: Residents on DEIS Scoping Document, September-October 2013
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Letters to Governor Cuomo and New York State Health Commissioner Shah, 2013-06-2013-07, inclusive
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Public Comments: Public School 163 on DEIS Scoping Document, 2013-10-04
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New York State Department of Health: State Environmental Quality Review - Final Scoping Document, 2014-01-28
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Public Comments: Park West Village Tenants Association, 2013-10-02
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New York State Department of Health: Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), 2013-03-21
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Draft of Environmental Impact Statement Hearing Transcript, 2014-05-07
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Public Comments: Residents on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, 2014-05
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New York State Department of Health: Final Environmental Impact Statement, 2014-11-14
Environmental Law Case Files: Proceedings, 2015
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Article 78 Petition - Filing Documents, 2015-04-10
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File includes material resticted by attorney-client privilege.
