Sunday, September 28, 2014

This Was the 1st Clue that ST/PCV Would Change Forever

The plaque. Situated on the West Side of the Oval path. Honoring Met Life Chairman Frederick H. Ecker. Removed in 2002 by Met Life in advance of an eventual sale of ST/PCV.  The words on the plaque were the reason for the removal (not ST/PCV's early racist rental policy). Left there, the words would have made a mockery of what was to come.

These are the words, the vision, that no future landlord of ST/PCV could leave standing:

"... who with the vision of experience and the energy of youth conceived and brought into being this project, and others like it, that families of moderate means might live in health, comfort and dignity in park-like communities and that a pattern might be set of private enterprise productively devoted to public service."



The removed plaque has never been seen again. No one knows where it is.
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2014 at 11:15 AM

    Mr De Blasio can you live up to those words on the plaque, that vision with is no different than the words you said and promises you made when you campaigned here last year to this middle class community?

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2014 at 12:20 PM

    Jerry Speyer stole it and melted it down for his personal use.

    http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130627194202/la-marca-del-este-rpg/images/f/fe/Gold-Ceramic-Toilet-1-.jpg

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2014 at 6:23 PM

    Sean Sullivan took it as part of his “Golden Parachute” severance package.

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 29, 2014 at 11:33 AM

    Something definitely fishy by not receiving my rent statement. Anybody else?

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 29, 2014 at 1:51 PM

    Forgot the rest of the quote:

    ".... until someone offers us $5.4 billion for the place. Then we'll take the money and run!"

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 29, 2014 at 6:07 PM

    definitely fishy on the rent statements

    new ownership announcement?

    someone said maybe recalculating the misapplied and miscalculated mci overcharges because the riverton lawsuit made everyone aware they overcharge and overcalculate

    maybe the dan/ta slimy brookfield moelis paul weiss takeover handover

    someone said they are waiting for the new office to be completed so they can make an october announcement.

    definitely something stinky, shady and underhanded..

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 29, 2014 at 11:24 PM

    Al Doyle must be rolling in his grave!

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  8. Stuy Town ReporterSeptember 30, 2014 at 8:59 AM

    If he is, he must be testing it out, as he's still very much alive.

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  9. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2014 at 11:11 AM

    Going, going, gone.

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  10. AnonymousOctober 3, 2014 at 3:50 PM

    New MCI coming for exterior façade work.

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