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Application from Autumn Communications on behalf of Amazon Handmade (“Applicant”) for “Amazon Handmade Holiday Market Pop-up,” a marketing event in Bryant Park on December 6th and 7th, 2019 from 10:00am to 10:00pm
The Community Board Five Executive Committee unanimously passed the following resolution with a vote of 9 in favor; 0 opposed; 0 abstaining:
WHEREAS, Autumn Communications on behalf of Amazon Handmade (“Applicant”) has submitted a permit application to hold "Amazon Handmade Holiday Market Pop-up," a marketing event in Bryant Park adjacent to the Carousel aimed at promoting Amazon Handmade, an online platform for artisans to sell their handcrafted goods, on December 6th and 7th, 2019 from 10:00am to 10:00pm; and
WHEREAS, The event will consist of a pop-up market featuring exclusive Amazon Handmade products and two onsite Artisans, with an array of booths inside the pop-up structure each containing select products from key Handmade categories, allowing consumers to interact with the Artisans, purchase product onsite, or interact with onsite tablets that allow them to purchase a Handmade item; and
WHEREAS, As site plans showing the proposed event footprint and renderings with proposed signage were submitted the day of the public hearing, which did not allow time for proper review; and
WHEREAS, Despite Applicant having a New York office, Applicant did not attend the public hearing as required to present their proposed event and answer questions from the committee and the public; and
WHEREAS, In addition, the timing of the application being submitted to the Parks Department prevented
a proper public hearing in advance of the event, resulting in Community Board Five's inability to fully
and properly give this application its appropriate public hearing; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, Community Board Five recommends denial of the application from Autumn
Communications on behalf of Amazon Handmade (“Applicant”) for “Amazon Handmade Holiday
Market Pop-up,” a marketing event in Bryant Park on December 6th and 7th, 2019 from 10:00am to
10:00pm; and be it further
RESOLVED, As the timing of the application being submitted to the Parks Department prevented a
proper public hearing in advance of the event, Community Board Five continues to request that the
Parks Department extend the minimum notice required of event applications to 45 days, to ensure
that they can be given a proper public hearing.