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KEY POINTS when WRITING or CALLING:
TELL THE STORY
Tell park visitors about Naval and Coast Guard aviation at Floyd Bennett, particularly the critically important WW2 period.
PRESERVE THE HISTORIC BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES
Don't demolish WW2 naval or other historic aviation buildings or allow their destruction through neglect. Use the buildings
for purposes that include telling the military aviation story of Floyd Bennett Field.
CONGRESS
Please write or call your U.S. representatives in the House and Senate. Legible handwritten letters have proven to be most
effective. (See the links below to the House and Senate web sites, if needed).
- Ask your representative and senators to contact Rep. Anthony D. Weiner, D-NY 9th District (Floyd Bennett Field is in
Mr. Weiner's district) and New York Senators Schumer and Clinton.
Your representative and senators should ask Rep. Weiner to introduce legislation as outlined below. With support from
his congressional colleagues, Mr. Weiner will lead the legislative process to preserve the site and tell the story.
WE ASK THAT CONGRESS:
1. Authorize and fund repairs to the Ryan Visitor Center (the Field's historic control tower and administration building)
so that the building is made safe and suitable for full public access and museum-quality interpretive displays.
2. Amend Gateway National Recreation Area's "enabling legislation" to provide explicit authorization to preserve
and interpret the military aviation heritage of Floyd Bennett Field.
3. Authorize and fund repairs and/or promote adaptive reuse of historic hangers and other historic buildings and structures.
US House of Representatives, http://www.house.gov
US Senate, http://www.senate.gov
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Please write or call National Park Service leaders. First, thank them for the initial steps we've accomplished (interpretive
plaque in the Ryan Visitor Center, and "site bulletin" about Floyd Bennett Field in WWII).
Seond, ask them to:
1. Tell Floyd Bennett Field's WW2 story by using existing research and artifacts to update brochures, maps, signs, interpretive
displays, tours, web sites and other sources of visitor information.
2. Complete the revision to the "Floyd Bennett Field National Register District" to include the WW2 period,
and increase the District boundaries to include historic naval structures not protected.
3. Complete and submit the nomination of Floyd Bennett Field as a "national historic landmark".
Fran Mainella, (202) 208-4621
Director, National Park Service
1849 C Street NW Room 3316
Washington, DC 20240
Marie G. Rust, (215) 597-7013
Director, Northeast Region, National Park Service
200 Chestnut Street 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Barry Sullivan, (718) 354-4665
General Superintendent, Gateway National Recreation Area
210 New York Ave, Ft. Wadsworth
Staten Island, NY 10305-5019
Billy G. Garrett, (718) 338-3605
Superintendent, Jamaica Bay Unit,
Gateway National Recreation Area
Building 69, Floyd Bennett Field
Brooklyn, NY 11234-7098
National Park Service, http://www.nps.gov
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