Collection Scope and Content Note

Records from the inception of the Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance (2003) to the completion of their quest for Landmarks designation (2007). Includes Sunnyside Gardens Historic District Designation Report by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, June 26, 2007.

CDs and typescript summaries from the Sunnyside Gardens Oral History program include interviews by Herbert Reynolds with Nesbitt Garmendia (2012), Robert W. Jones (2012), Marilyn Lutzker (2012), Gerry Modica (2012), and Ethel Plimack (2010); interview by Herbert Reynolds and Tony Rohling with Gerry Modica and Suzanne Patterson (2010); and interviews by Sabine Heinlein with Dorothy A. Cavallo (2011) and Liivia Westervelt (2011). Also two interviews by Pamela Nelson with Gerald A. Perrin (1988).