Carolyn Kent

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  Published on: 1/14/2008    Last Visited: 1/14/2008  

  Carolyn Kent

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  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 12/18/2008  

  Carolyn Kent, the chair of Community Board 9's Landmarks Committee, led the charge against the deal when it was first proposed in 2003. She faulted the Church for not taking on a capital campaign instead, like Boston's Trinity Church, calling the signing of the agreement with AvalonBay "laziness." And now, she hates the building even more.
  
  "I was so struck with how cheap it looked," she said.

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  Published on: 4/26/2007    Last Visited: 4/26/2007  

  The Morningside Heights Historic District Committee's Carolyn Kent was quoted in the same article as saying, "When you have an interior system designed by men of such genius, it would certainly be a mistake to attack their remaining intact work."

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  www.columbiaspectator.com/node/28911 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/31/2008    Last Visited: 1/31/2008  

  Carolyn Kent, co-chair of the Landmark Committee, said that the committee's early support of the NPS move had been contingent upon the agreed use of the Convent Avenue lot and geographical positioning of the Grange in St. Nicholas Park, promises the NPS had failed to live up to.
  
  "It was a true agreement, a true pact that was made with them," Kent said."We're kind of in a bind here if they keep going and keep chopping before we reach agreement."
  
  The Landmark Committee also disagreed with the proposed orientation of the Grange house.In the proposed northeast orientation, the front of the house would be facing out toward the road, but for historical accuracy's sake, Kent argued, the house should be set facing southwest.
  
  "We're hoping ... to resolve this, but in the meantime the work seems to be going forward," Kent said.
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  "We're calling not to have some battle with them, but for resolution," Kent said.

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  Board of the Authority - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/25/2006    Last Visited: 11/30/2006  

  The Executive Director reported that the Authority had received correspondence over the last week from Carolyn Kent of the Morningside Heights Historic District Committee asking that staff distribute to the Members materials submitted by the Committee, as well as the Authority's responses thereto.She directed the Members' attention to those materials.

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  Published on: 9/28/2004    Last Visited: 9/26/2005  

  "As fall starts, we're in a rush against time and their bulldozers," said Carolyn Kent, a member of the Morningside Heights Historic District Committee, who had been gathering signatures on petitions protesting the move.

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  Published on: 9/9/2005    Last Visited: 9/9/2005  

  Carolyn Kent, a co-founder of the Morningside Heights Historic District Committee, which opposes the cathedral's development, complained that any Columbia construction would "intrude on sacred ground" for the sake of self-preservation, and would destroy the architectural integrity of North America's largest Gothic cathedral by obstructing views of its structure.She also predicted that the AvalonBay rental units could help foment a further influx of unaffordable housing and would run against the New York Episcopal church's community-oriented tradition of subsidizing housing for the poor.
  
  "To think of high income people brushing their teeth down on the head of the Archangel Gabriel," she said, "it makes one wonder what has happened to the values of the Episcopalian church."
  
  She also dismissed the cathedral's claims that the fiscal crises of the past few years made development necessary."There is an increasing national commitment to the architectural and cultural heritage of America," she said."There is going to be, I'm sure, trust funds and increasing availability of state funds for maintaining great religious sites."
  
  Kent said that a nationwide fundraising drive could raise the necessary money.
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  If he will not see the committee that worked so hard with the previous administration," Kent said.

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  Columbia Spectator Online - CB7 Rejects MTA's Arts For... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/6/2003    Last Visited: 2/6/2003  

  Carolyn Kent of the Morningside Heights Historic District Committee agreed that all stations should be preserved in their original forms."When you have an interior system designed by men of such genius, it would certainly be a mistake to attack their remaining intact work," Kent said.
  
  Other more familiar arguments surfaced as well, particularly with regard to the artistic integrity of the plan.

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  Columbia Spectator Online - CU One Step Closer to St.... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/18/2003    Last Visited: 6/18/2003  

  Carolyn Kent, a founding member of the Morningside Heights Historic District Committee, called the commission's decision "a terrible mistake" and "a cultural crisis."
  
  "It seems that this important agency and the two great institutions, Columbia University and the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, have together made a grave and disturbing effort," Kent said."Disturbing in that it raises questions about the viability of American Protestantism, the cultural sense of responsibility of one of our great universities, and the desire to protect and hold intact sites of the greatest value on the part of the Landmarks Commission."
  
  "This arrangement made between the historic originators of Morningside Heights raises questions that all of us here and across the country need to think about immediately and in the years ahead," she added.

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  Last Visited: 11/23/2004  

  Carolyn Kent, a founding member of the Morningside Heights Historic District Committee, said at a recent community board meeting that the board should be "challenging Columbia not by what's there but by what could be there."

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