ABSTRACT
The year was 1960. The month was May. Seven hundred Brooklynites rallied in the ballroom of the St. George Hotel. They heard Richard H. Howland, the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, “beat an eloquent drum for Heights preservation.” Earlier that March, a “Save the Village” petition to protect Greenwich Village from the “ravages of big buildings” was unveiled at city hall with sixteen thousand signatures. 1
