“You are entitled to your own opinions. But not your own facts.” That’s the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan — himself a strong advocate for historic preservation — and it’s a standard worth holding journalism to.

A recent Curbed piece on Village Preservation didn’t meet it. The article attributes much of the city’s affordability crisis to preservation in general, and to our organization in particular, and it does so using several claims that simply aren’t accurate.

We value a free press, and we welcome real debate about the role preservation should play in a city facing an affordability crisis — reasonable people disagree on that, and we’re glad to engage. But this piece went much further: it included provably false statements about our record, a quote taken out of its original context, and it left out facts about our affordable housing work that were shared with the magazine directly. We raised each of these issues with the editors before and after publication. They chose not to correct any of them.

We wanted you to hear the full story, not just theirs. Read our open letter to the editors of Curbed and its parent, New York Magazine, HERE.

If you’d like to share your own thoughts with the editors, you can do so at comments@nymag.com.

You can also read more about our work on the relationship between Preservation and Affordability HERE, which includes studies by academics, planners, and economists that dispute the premise that building lots of unaffordable housing makes a city more affordable.