It feels like the paper of record has written about a dozen articles on the topic in the last few days but this one is the most comprehensive…plus it comes with a really cool interactive photo feature.


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  1. I get tears when reading about the little boy, Stephen Baltz, who lived for a few pain-filled hours after this crash.

    After reading through some of these stories today, here is a comment from one of the them, that may apply to some Bstnr topics:

    “I’d like to observe that as a result of this crash in the midst of the Urban Renewal movement, given the devastation to the neighborhood, there was a call to raze thousands of brownstones and put up “projects,” the same buildings we now rejoice to see imploded in a big bang. Park Slope (which in those days included what is now called Prospect Heights) was not a well-to-do neighborhood. Irish-Italian working class with the highest concentration of Irish bars in America occurring along Flatbush from the Bridge to the Park. There were always, however, fancy people in the buildings along Prospect Park West and Eastern Parkway, and along 8th Avenue, which we called “Doctor’s Row.”

    These people banded against the Urban Renewal projects and instead created the first Historic District in New York City, a most enlightened result. Hats off to the late Evelyn Ortner, with whom I studied in the country’s first Master’s program in Historic Preservation at Columbia University and later at St. Ann’s in Brooklyn (now grown to St. Ann’s Warehouse) and all her partners in this effort.

    Rest in peace, every one.
    — Janine Nichols”

    12:14 pm- http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/park-slope-plane-crash-how-it-happened/

    Of course many other changes came from this tragedy including better flying regulations.