Fed Agency: Admirals Row Situation 'Inexplicable'
In a letter dated yesterday, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, a federal agency that’s acted as a consultant to the Army National Guard with reference to Admirals Row, said the agency is “troubled by the recent turn of events” at the row, particularly the National Guard’s recent assertion that Building B cannot be stabilized….
In a letter dated yesterday, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, a federal agency that’s acted as a consultant to the Army National Guard with reference to Admirals Row, said the agency is “troubled by the recent turn of events” at the row, particularly the National Guard’s recent assertion that Building B cannot be stabilized. The letter has some strong words about how “it is inexplicable that the NY District did not complete the stabilization of Building B” before this winter and notes that the National Guard transferred $2 million to the guard’s NY District two years ago “for the express purpose of stabilizing Building B and the Timber Shed.” (The district has also said that the Timber Shed, the Admirals Row structure aside from Building B that was supposed to be preserved, has deteriorated beyond repair.) Click through to read the letter in its entirety.
Letter via HDC’s Facebook.
Ny Ngb Admirals Row Disposal-buildling b Con 11may11
From the first time I saw these buildings a year ago, I did not see any alternative to demolition.
They have been left to decay too long.
I predict that by end of summer all the houses will be razed and the Army will hand over a vacant site to the Navy Yard.
Two years? Don’t give the Guard so much credit – they’ve been f**king this project up for 10 times as long as that!
At this point, the National Guard should just get out of the way, turn over the $2M allocated for stabilization to the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation and let the latter do the work. The incompetence of the National Guard, especially two years into the Section 106 process, is dumbfounding. They’re without shame.
Actually, I don’t care one way or another about these particular buildings.
I was just commenting on the ineptness of the government. I also don’t drive a Chevy so there’s no way for me to get to the levee.
It’s the Army. Their expertize is in blowing up old houses and villages, not in repairing them.
Randi +10
They should just tear these things down so people can stop thinking about them and hoping that one day they will get repaired. It’s not going to happen, and anyway the army corps of engineers has way bigger fish to fry- I mean look at what is currently happening with the levees in the mississippi delta….repair historical structures to make nimby plusas like montrose Morris and DIBS happy or save real people’s lives….hmmmm, touch choice there.
After all this time, now they want to restore this property??? it is too far gone already, it should should just be razed already, plant trees and call it a day.