Petition to Extend Carnegie Hill Historic District one block so as to include Historic East 93rd Street. Please click on the link and add your name to the list:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/CHHD93st/petition.html
Petition to Co-Name East 93rd Street ‘Marx Brothers Place’ in honor of the extant childhood home of the Comic Icons. Please click on the link and add your name to the list:
http://www.petitiononline.com/coname/petition.html
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thank you for this site!! I am forwarding it to many friends in the bloggosphere and the NY theatre press. I hope we can get the ball rolling. Please contact me as I’d love nothing more than to have a Marx Brothers parade up Lex on October 2nd (Groucho’s Birthday)
GOD BLESS AMERICA.
I am so proud that someone would begin a petition such as this to save a historic area in New York real estate. Developers ARE most definitely demolishing for the profit all over our country and not caring one bit about what is HISTORICALLY important. What does this teach our children? That’s a question that we need to think about, as they are the ones who will continue to care for this earth once WE are gone.
I,too, think the parade is one of the finest, if not the best of all ideas to be presented in a forth right and forthcoming manner in many, and I mean many a moon. To rival only the St Patrick’s Day parade, which parades on another famous NY avenue, the participation of the following should be made mandatory, if not, boydatory.
The New York Historical Society
The Metroploitan Museum of Art
The Museum of Natural History
The Museum of Television and Radio
THe New York Times
The New York Chapter of The Ancient Hibernians
The St. Nicholas League
The Morgan Library
Colonial Dames of New York
NY Sons of the American Revolution
The Museum of the City of New York
New York Society Library
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
THe Shubert Organization
The Marshall Chess Club
The Tennants Association of the Dakota Apartments
The School for Ethical Culture
The New York City Ballet
The Straphangers Association
Symphony Space
With these fine institutions behind you, the world’s most remembered parade would take its first step. Why, I will, even, personally volunteer to be Grand Marshall. Just forward some letterhead, and two boxtops from Wheaties, (and some postage) and off like the wind, shall be your invitation to these offices to send representatives to march an autumn afternoon uptown.
In all seriousness, this seems like a very good idea to make the whole upper east side aware of your cause, obtaining a permit for parading would be the first inclination. Secondly, I would offer to draw up a letter of invitation of particpation to be sent to any and all, of your approval.
Michael D. Carey
iulia144@yahoo.com
cc: Mr. Whitmore
Mrs. DuMont
Places like this need to be saved
Save the home and make it into a museum of Marx Brothers memorablia that will be available for future generations. We can not stress how important this is. The Marx brothers instilled hope in Americans when we needed it the most ie the depression and during the World Wars. They are recognized the world over. The world is watching to see how Americans treat it’s piublic treasures and the Marx Brothers were ours!
The Marx Brothers still stand as monumental geniuses who mixed great intelligence with slapstich humor in ways that have never been equaled. Do not take away this piece of history at a time where we can learn from them and need to revisit their lessons.
Id love to help in any i can.The Marx Brothers are pure geniuses!!……………Nino
Why is this even an issue??? This should have been done YEARS AGO….perhaps decades. The Marx Brothers were WAYYYYYYYY ahead of their time and I am STILL amazed at the chemistry they bring to the screen. Never again in our lifetime will we ever experience the brilliance of such talented, but all so DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER geniuses. From the manic comedy of all involved to the ALMOST TOO TOUCHING glimpses of Harpo: who let us PEEK inside his soul while playing his harp…….it is not dated, it never gets old….it is still RELEVANT…..and if they do NOT get this honor, I shall be ashamed of Hollywood forever. Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo….you guys were ONE OF A KIND!!!!
Sincerely,
Kev-O Arnold
A superb website and tribute to the world’s greatest actors!
If I am not too late in signing this petition, please, please preserve this American landmark. Nothing says “good ole’ American humor” than the Marx Brothers.
It’s time to look at preservation in this city, not demolition of sites that have helped build our inclusive cultures.
Let’s keep the Marx brothers home ass it is for the future generations of comedians and those who appreciate them.
Please save the house on 93rd Street. I have grown up watching the Marx Brothers and they deserve to have the street and house named after them.
Thank you,
Sandra Bettinger
Even though I am not American, we are too fond of forgetting our heritage. America is a fairly new country, lets remember the good thing its provided to the pool of human culture. The Marx Brothers certainly qualify for that distinction.
I am fan of the boys and i say lets keep their childhood historical, for when fans like me walk by there in the future, they can say “hey thats where the famous marxes grew up!!!!
please leave this area untarnished. this area is a piece of american history.
people are always trying to destroy historic sites, institutions, landmarks, etc. all in the ” name of progress. leave this site alone. the marx brothers were truly blessed by GOD.
Please do save the childhood home of the Marx Bros. Its the ’stuff the American Dream is made of.”
DON’T TOUCH THAT HISTERICAL LANDMARK IN ANY NEGATIVE WAY,SHAPE, OR FORM!!!!!!!!!!!
BY ORDER OF NEAL SAUSEN
ON THIS DAY OF 30th. OF MARCH 2009.
the MARX BROS.childhood home is an “HYSTERICAL” land-mark! A relic of an America that no longer exists! Pleease for once keep the greedy developers hands off these precious few land-marks!!
neal sausen/03-30-09