Hackers Launch 'Save The Hotel' Media Blitz: Pamphlets! Public Access TV! MySpace! Maybe Even Cutting Class!
Activists campaigning to preserve the historic Hotel Pennsylvania have unveiled a slew of new propaganda in anticipation of Thursday's community board meeting on the possibility of landmarking the old inn.
There's a revamped Web site and also some slick new pamphlets, which one guy yesterday heroically distributed outside the hotel under tremendous strain: "My Right Arm from carrying all the bags and holding up the stack of fliers while blabbing is killing me."
There's also chatter about taking the fight to MySpace and public access TV--perhaps even infiltrating Barnes & Noble with "stealth bookmarks."
One guy might even cut class to attend Thursday's 6 p.m. meeting at 227 West 27th Street, Building "C", Haft Auditorium, 2nd Floor, and put in his three minutes worth of two cents.
Victory over demolition-minded Vornado, though, won't come easy.
“Landmarking is not an easy process," as Community Board 5 Chairman David Siesko told the Times' Jake Mooney on Friday. "Neither the community board nor the landmarks committee goes about this process lightly.”




















It is unbelievable that Vornado wants to destroy such a great building. Why not gut renovate the interior like Elad did to the Plaza? A luxury hotel outside of this new redevelopment area would really be a centerpiece of the area!
I agree with Tim. Too bad Elad didn't grab it instead of Vornado. A classy Hotel Penn with a new Cafe Rouge would be far better than another glass box, we got enough of those around, but only a limited number of McKim Mead and Whites! Couldn't a futuristic addition be added atop the current structure? A la the Hearst Building?