Ocean's 13: Landmarking Against a Ticking Time Bomb
Last night, the board members of Community Board 9 unanimously approved an effort to convince the Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate a row of 13 rowhouses on Ocean Avenue. The “Ocean on the Park” houses, as they are being called, consist of ten limestones designed by the well-known architect Axel Hedman (who designed the Courtroom…
Last night, the board members of Community Board 9 unanimously approved an effort to convince the Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate a row of 13 rowhouses on Ocean Avenue. The “Ocean on the Park” houses, as they are being called, consist of ten limestones designed by the well-known architect Axel Hedman (who designed the Courtroom at Brooklyn Borough Hall as well as numerous houses in the Park Slope, Crown Heights and Lefferts Manor historic districts) around 1910 and three brick houses from about 1920. As readers may remember, one of the brick houses, 185 Ocean Avenue, was sold for $1.2 million (33% above asking price) to a developer named Meir Zarchi last spring. The developer had his plans for an eight-story, 23,000-square-foot building disapproved by DOB in September (one person who’s seen the plan called it “an awful looking mess”), but he did get approval yesterday to put up a construction fence, an almost certain precursor to demolition. The other 12 homeowners report being approached by numerous developers looking to follow suit. With the official community board backing, as well as support from several local politicians, the preservation-minded residents are looking for LPC to step up to the plate before it’s too late.
Calender: 10/23/2007 Meeting [CB9] GMAP P*Shark
If I accept, you have to renovate the Crazy Stable. Think twice, boyo (or girleen, wink).
Brenda, may I please ask for your hand in marriage?
Thank you.
As Bob said, it means “wonderful to relate” (essentially “I’m happy to say”).
Well Bob or 2:53 would you please enlighten the rest of us?
2:53,
Wonderful to relate, it didn’t 🙂
Is the use of “mirabile dictu” really going to pass without comment? 🙂
Where is written that the rights of all American’s are Life, Liberty, and an apartment (in a high density cheaply built brick tower block in the a good nab, in one of the most expensive cities in the world)?
Historic buildings should be preserved and cherished for future generations, not destroyed in the name of housing future generations.
Zach, why are you trolling around a forum dedicated to Brownstones and other historic buildings if you are so anti historic buildings?
Zach, your post is a bundle of contradictions, as has just been pointed out to you. If you think that apartments directly across the street from Prospect Park is going to be affordable, you are stupider even than you originally appeared to be. Brooklyn is currently undergoing an unprecedented building boom, and yet, mirabile dictu, nobody is rushing in to build anything but luxury housing. I pointed out on another thread that the free market has never solved the problem of affordable housing, and it isn’t about to. Once again, there’s plenty of vacant space in Brooklyn for affordable housing, but without government incentives it isn’t going to happen. Allowing someone to tear down precisely what’s distinctive about Brooklyn, when there are still areas that are rubble crying out for new apartment buildings, is, once again, stupid.