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Sorry for the duplicate post – forgot to allow comments.

I just found out that Mets owner Fred Wipon and his development group Sterling Properties plans to convert the garage on College Place in Brooklyn Heights into high-end condos. I recently bought an apartment in the co-op that is adjacent to the property and needless to say, I’m peeved. My building found about the project because a surveyor was snooping around with a measuring device in my neighbor’s garden downstairs and when she asked him what he was doing, he said that he was working on a condo development project. Sneaky, sneaky. Sounds like they’ve already gone pretty far with planning, but they still need to make it through the Landmark committee since the building is landmarked. My question is this – currently there are no windows on the side of the garage that faces our building. It’s a beautiful brick wall covered with ivy, about 10-20 yards back from my building. My hunch is that in order to convert the buildings into condos, they would need to put windows into these walls (on top of the inevitable noise pollution resulting from the construction, this is the part that kills me). But can they cut windows into the exterior of a landmarked building? Is there a way the residents of my building can try to get at least this aspect of the construction blocked by the landmark committee? Any thoughts would be much appreciated.