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CITY COUNCIL | 20TH COUNCIL DISTRICT
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PAUL
GRAZIANO |
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Green
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Party Enrolled
In: Green
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Occupation:
Urban Planning / Historic Preservation Consultant,
L+C Design Consultants, Secaucus, NJ
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Occupational Background:
Co-Author, Boonton, NJ Master Plan; Administrator,
Paterson, NJ Facade Restoration Grant Program; Author,
Greater Flushing Rezoning Proposal; Author, Waldheim
Historic District; Consultant, Richmond Hill Historic
District and Kew Forest Civic Association Deed Restriction
Lawsuit
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Educational Background:
MS in Urban Affairs, Hunter College; BA in Comparative
Literature, University of Massachusetts - Amherst;
Bronx High School of Science
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Organizational
Affiliations: Land-Use and Zoning Chair, Queens
Civic Congress (QCC); President, Flushing Historic
Trust; Board Member, Committee to Save the RKO Keith’s
Flushing Theater, Inc.; Planning Committee, Community
Environmental Center (CEC); Secretary-Treasurer,
Fort Totten Conservancy
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Prior Public Experience:
Elected State Committeemember representing the 25th
Assembly District; Executive Committee member of
the State Committee
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A lifelong resident
of Flushing, Paul Graziano has spent the last 7
years organizing residents throughout Flushing and
Queens to stop the destructive speculative development
occurring in their neighborhoods. To that end, Graziano
has been committed to using his expertise and background
in planning, zoning, environmental and historical
research, and economic development strategies to
create novel approaches in protecting neighborhoods
from overdevelopment.
Three issues in Flushing that Graziano has taken
leadership on are: the Greater Flushing Rezoning
Proposal, which will rezone over 3000 properties
on 150 blocks of Flushing to make sure that new
development is consistent with existing buildings;
the Kissena Watershed Restoration, which will rehabilitate
and restore over 2 miles of the stream that runs
(currently underground) through Kissena Park; and
removing the RKO Keith’s Theater in downtown Flushing
from the hands of its criminally negligent owner,
Thomas Huang, and restoring the building to its
original grandeur for public use.
Other issues that Graziano has been involved in
include: identification of and funding for cleaning
up recognized toxic sites in downtown Flushing;
restoration of arts education in the New York City
public schools; development of educational components
to acclimate and educate newer immigrants to the
neighborhoods that they reside in; protecting Fort
Totten from development for use as a public park
and historic district; and preserving the last mansion
from the 1840’s in Flushing for use as a community
center and museum.
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