Najee Ali, political director of the chapter, sent the Electronic Urban Report a statement explaining the decision.
"The same thing is going on right now with the Monmouth Battlefield," said Jeff Tittel, director of the chapter.
But after the price was settled, recalled Mr. Bell (who is now the executive director of the chapter), the owners of the eight-story building said: "Take the basement, take the subbasement.
The winners were chosen from 59 entries by five judges, according to Ann LoMonte, the executive director of the chapter, a nonprofit group that represents more than 600 architects who work on Long Island.
The winners were chosen by five judges from 65 entries, according to Ann LoMonte, executive director of the chapter, a nonprofit group that represents more than 600 architects who work on Long Island.
The A.C.L.U., which has only used print advertisements in the past, was urged to use television by its Southern California chapter's chairman, Danny Goldberg, and by Ramona Ripston, executive director of the chapter, both of whom had experience in using television for marketing political views.
His mother is the director of the American Red Cross chapter there.
He is a director of the New York City chapter of the Association of Fund-Raising Professionals.
He is also a director of the Princeton chapter of Planned Parenthood.
His father was the executive director of the New York City chapter of the American Lung Association.
Barbara Bernstein, the executive director of the Nassau chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, applauds this change in focus.
