We just got word that the Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold a public hearing on the Domino Sugar factory on Tuesday, June 26 at 1 Centre Street, 9th Floor North, starting at 9:30 a.m. In other North Brooklyn preservation news, at Wednesday night’s brainstorming session for the future design of McCarren Park, park officials told the audience that they expected the buildings around the pool to be designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in July. (Evidently they were first calendared back in the 1990s but never designated; they were calendared again back in the first quarter of this year.) For that reason, when attendees broke out into tables of five or six people, the buildings had to be part of every plan. The report we got was that most groups came back with similar ideas: Multiple pools instead of one giant one, a permanent place for the skate park and some kind of concert performance space. Can anyone flesh this out?
vicandanielle [NY Times]
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