CB7 approves letter of support
to renovate Woolworth building
BY JASON COHEN
Community Board 7 approved
a letter of support on
May 26 for capital funding to
renovate the Woolworth Building
on the Woodlawn Cemetery
grounds.
The Woodlawn Conservancy
submitted an application
to Borough President Ruben
Diaz Jr. and Councilman
Andrew Cohen requesting
money to upgrade the building.
The stone building was
originally constructed in 1935
and features a bell tower and
copper roof. The capital funding
would support renovations
to the building, including making
it ADA compliant and installing
an HVAC system, climate
control and a new roof.
Woodlawn Conservancy
makes the Woolworth Building
available to the community for
public events, including Community
Board 7 meetings.
Cohen, who virtually attended
the meeting, said this
is a project that he has been
working on for a couple years.
“I think it could really be
a community asset if it were
CB7 District Manager Ischia Bravo and the board approve a letter of support
to renovate the Woolworth building at the Woodlawn Cemetery
File photo
more accessible,” he said.
Community Board 7 District
Manager Ischia Bravo
will generate a letter and send
it to the agencies and local
electeds.
James W. Garland, vice
president, Woodlawn Conservancy
is praised CB7’s decision.
“We are pleased to have
hosted the CB7 general
monthly meeting in the Woolworth
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Building and are appreciative
of their support and
understanding of how critical
it is to the community that
the appropriate renovations,
among them a new roof and
ADA compliant restrooms, are
completed on the building,”
Garland said.
MEMORIAL DAY 2020
On Sunday, May 24, 2020, the American Legion of Co-op City
participated in its annual laying of wreath event in honor of
Memorial Day. The event took place of their yearly Memorial Day
ceremony. Photo by Miriam Quin
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