Sunnyside Gardens Historic District
Major Historical documents
National Register Nomination (1984)
New York City Landmark Nomination (2007)
Preliminary Work on National Historic Landmark Application
In 2018, the National Park Service gave permission for the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District to begin work on its National Historic Landmark nomination.
Letter of Inquiry initiated the process (May 2017)
National Park Service’s inspection (September 2017)
Letter of Permission to prepare the nomination (October 2018)
Support Letters for Sunnyside’s National Historic Landmark
National Landmark Certification Procedures
- Permission to apply (completed)
- Federal Inspection for Integrity (completed)
- Federal suggestions for writing nomination (completed)
- Collecting letters of support (community’s friends)
- Community meeting and agreement survey (community)
- Compiling bibliography and photo’s to accompany nomination (community)
- Estimation of tasks and costs for preparing nomination (consultant)
- Funding the project (community’s leadership and friends)
- Selection of consultant to prepare nomination (a committee)
- Outline of consultant’s tasks/ timeline (a committee; consultant; federal government)
- Consultant complete nomination with federal government’s technical assistance
- Community to review completed nomination
- Community to vote whether it wants to be a National Historic Landmark
(election to be conducted by the federal government—at least 51% agreement)
- Federal government’s two public hearings on nomination
(conducted by the National Historic Landmark Committee (nation’s leading scholars) and National Park Service Committee (preservation professionals)) - Final decision announced by federal government.
- Installation of National Historic Landmark plaque.