Yetta Kurland, Candidate for City Council, Steps In on Two Village Sites

New York, NY. September 13, 2009. Yetta Kurland, candidate for City Council in the Third District, has supported the nomination of Westbeth, a West Village residential complex for artists, for listing on the State and National Register of Historic Places.

She has also demanded that New York University stop actions that are destroying the iconic theatre, the Provincetown Playhouse, in which many of the plays of Eugene O'Neill were first performed.

"It is essential that community leaders step in to preserve the historic integrity of our heritage," Kurland said. "Both Westbeth and the Provincetown Playhouse deserve support from this community."

Yetta Kurland wrote to endorse the nomination of Westbeth to the Register of Historic Places by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. "The investment made in Westbeth has paid dividends many times over in terms of supporting the arts here in the arts capital of the world," she wrote.

Kurland wrote to NYU President John Sexton that she was concerned the university had gone back on its word in starting to destroy the Provincetown Playhouse. She asked President Sexton "to stop any and all destruction of the theatre, and to restore those areas that have been damaged."

Yetta Kurland has pledged to consult with community residents on all development projects to make sure that their concerns are accommodated by all developers.