Good for Representative Carolyn Maloney and other lawmakers who are entreating Governor Hochul to intervene on behalf of one of Gotham’s most venerable youth organizations, the Knickerbocker Greys. These cadets formed to inculcate the military virtues among the sons of Manhattan, face eviction from their home of 120 years in the basement of the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue. 

The Greys have long since broadened their membership to include girls as well as boys. They say their future is imperiled because the Park Avenue Armory wants to turn their basement headquarters into a coat room — the Armory says it’s for handicapped access — and send the Greys elsewhere. That would sever the ties the cadets forged in 1902 with the Armory and unmoor a group that is a “living landmark” in the city.