The Landmarks Preservation Commission isn’t going to give Rush Brook Partners a free pass to construct a controversial new building at 73 Pineapple Street in Brooklyn Heights. The LPC, which reviewed the developer’s plans yesterday but stopped short of formally voting on the proposal, had grave reservations about the project, and LPC Chairman Robert Tierney urged the architects to restudy the project in a ‘major way,’ according to LPC spokesperson Elisabeth de Bourbon. The commissioners said the proposed building would be out of context with the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, with the chief objection being that it calls for too many floors to be built relative to its overall size. There isn’t anything about the building that I could agree on, said Commissioner Margery Perlmutter. I would just have to say ‘do over.’ Community Board 2′s Land Use Committee, the Brooklyn Heights Association and the Historic Districts Council are all opposing Rush Brook Partners’ plan. Now that a rejection of the building as it’s currently planned is more or less certain, we’ll have to see how the developer responds to all these misgivings in its next round with the LPC.
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