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YOUR HELP WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
You or your group can help by writing letters and emails, calling, and spreading the word.
- Write and phone the organizations below.
- Ask like-minded friends to write and phone too.
- Seek support of our work from influential individuals and organizations.
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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 Gillibrand.
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. Amend Gateway National
Recreation Area's "enabling legislation" to provide explicit authorization to preserve and interpret the military aviation
heritage of Floyd Bennett Field.
2. Ask the Park Service
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".
Jon Jarvis, 202-208-3818
/ Jon_Jarvis@nps.gov
Director, National Park
Service
1849 C Street NW Room 3316
Washington, DC 20240
Linda Canzanelli, (718)
354-4665
(Acting) General Superintendent,
Gateway National Recreation Area
210 New York Ave, Ft. Wadsworth
Staten Island, NY
10305-5019
National Park Service, http://www.nps.gov
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