While the potential demolition over on MacDonough Street stealing the headlines in recent days, we thought it was worth checking back in on the situation at 196 Lefferts Place in Bed Stuy. As you may recall, the facade of the long-neglected brownstone began to collapse last week, necessitating the commencement of a manual demolition process. While we were snapping this photo, we learned from one of the contractors that (a) the buildings on either side were unaffected by the problems at 196 and (b) that the owner of this building lives on the block. There should be a law against this kind of neglect. If you can’t afford to keep up a building, sell it to someone who can.
196 Lefferts Place Gets Demo’d [Brownstoner] GMAP
Building Collapse on Lefferts Place [Brownstoner]