Paul Graziano
Urban Planning / Historic Preservation Consultant
146-18 32nd Avenue
Flushing, N. Y. 11354
718-939-3913


Political History

Green Party of New York State
Male Member of the State Committee representing Assembly District 25, Flushing.
Member of the New York State Executive Committee.

Central Queens Greens
Chair, Longest active Green Party local chapter - founded 1989.


Work History

Richmond Hill Historic District and Rezoning Plan 2000-Present
Consultant for proposed municipal historic landmark district and proposed rezoning of over 30 blocks in Richmond Hill, Queens, affecting over 900 properties.

Kew Forest Civic Association 1999-Present
Consultant and researcher of historic deed restrictions to promulgate appropriate enforcement and protection of the Kew Forest neighborhood in Forest Hills, Queens from incompatible, high-density development.

Greater Flushing Rezoning Plan September 1998-Present
Consultant for proposed rezoning of over 300 blocks of Flushing, affecting over 5000 individual properties.
Author of rezoning plan and criteria. Coordinator of civic groups, totaling more than 1500 families, to press for rezoning proposal.

Waldheim Historic District January 1998-Present
Consultant on proposed municipal historic landmark district in Flushing, Queens.
Author of historical summary, slide presentation and designation criteria.
Organized civic association created to lobby for landmark status and neighborhood improvements.

Mayo, Lynch and Associates / L+C Design Consultants 1997-Present
Planning Assistant / Mapping Designer and co-author of 1997 Paterson Main Street Investigational Report and Design Guidelines in conjunction with the Paterson, NJ Main Street Facade Restoration Grant Program.
Administrative Assistant for Facade Restoration Grant Program.
Planning Assistant and co- author involved in the preparation, writing and investigation of the 1998 Boonton, NJ Master Plan and Recommended Design Guidelines for Main Street.

Hunter College Study Abroad Summer 1997
Teaching assistant for Hunter College Urban Planning course taught in London, England by Professor Ralph Seligman.

Hunter College School of Social Work February-November 1996
Research Assistant on Reader's Digest-Wallace Fund grant. Research focused on discerning positive and negative staff mission statements, and ensuing effect on morale and productivity due to budgetary constraints, at Settlement Houses in New York City.

Queens Historical Society 1993-1995
Consultant for historic structures survey in Flushing, New York. Curator / designer of "350 Years of Flushing: The Changing Dynamic," an exhibition which examined the physical changes of Flushing, New York since its founding in 1645.


Related Professional/Volunteer Credentials

Community Environmental Center 2000-Present
Developed historical, cultural and physical environment tour of Long Island City / Hunter's Point neighborhood of Queens for high school students in the Learning Through Design program (in concert with the Municipal Arts Society). Planning Committee member for upcoming Spring 2001 event in Gantry Park.

Flushing Historic Trust 2000-Present
Founder and President of organization created to preserve and protect properties of historic, cultural and architectural significance in Flushing, Queens.
Designer of successful plan to save the Pearl / Bullard / Eccles / Kabriski mansion in Flushing, Queens, for adaptive reuse as a museum and community space.
Author of historical summary and designation criteria.

Fort Totten Conservancy 1997-Present
Secretary-Treasurer and co-founder of non-profit organization committed to the environmental and historic preservation and adaptive reuse of Fort Totten, a 180-year-old coastal fortification in Queens County, threatened with high-density development due to abandonment by the United States Army.
Member of Coast Guard Reclamation Advisory Board from 1998-2000, formed to advance clean up toxic contamination at the recently landmarked Fort Totten.

Queensborough Preservation League 1996-Present
Board member of umbrella organization charged with advocating the preservation of threatened historic structures and districts through proposed historic landmark status for worthy candidates in Queens, New York

Committee to Save the RKO Keith's Flushing Theater, Inc. 1995-Present
Board member of organization charged with the mission of preserving and protecting the RKO Keith's Theater, a designated historic landmark in downtown Flushing, Queens for adaptive reuse.

Queens Civic Congress 1995-Present
Zoning and Land Use Chair of umbrella organization representing over 100 civic groups created to protect and enhance the quality-of-life of neighborhoods in Queens County through non-partisan lobbying of government agencies and elected officials.

Bayside Avenue Estates Civic Association / North Flushing Civic Association 1994-1997
Founding member, board member and Zoning Chair of civic organization created to protect and enhance a residential neighborhood in Flushing, Queens through non-partisan lobbying of government agencies and elected officials.


Education

M. S. Urban Affairs - Hunter College - May 1999
B. A. Comparative Literature - University of
Massachusetts at Amherst - 1993



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