Admirals' Row: Debate Still Framed as Either/Or Decision
Yesterday’s Times article on redevelopment plans for Admirals’ Row more or less presented the issue at hand in the same old black-and-white terms: Either the 10 dilapidated 19th century rowhouses behind the Farragut Houses get demolished and a supermarket gets built, or the houses are preserved and no supermarket is built. The story notes that…
Yesterday’s Times article on redevelopment plans for Admirals’ Row more or less presented the issue at hand in the same old black-and-white terms: Either the 10 dilapidated 19th century rowhouses behind the Farragut Houses get demolished and a supermarket gets built, or the houses are preserved and no supermarket is built. The story notes that people living in the nearby projects are mostly in favor of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation’s plan to demolish the structures (Those buildings are disintegrating, and nobody’s ever done anything with them, so put in a supermarket, says a resident of the Walt Whitman Houses). What isn’t examined in the article, however, is whether it’s possible to build a supermarket and save the houses, an idea that’s likely to be discussed at a Fort Greene Association meeting tonight, where Brent Porter of the Pratt Institute will present alternate plans to save these historic homes and provide needed community services. Meanwhile, the National Guard, which owns the properties, is taking a long look at whether it should require whoever buys the houses to preserve them.
Amid Weeds and Rust, a Ruin Seeks a Second Act [NY Times]
Officers’ Row: Let’s Have Our Cake and Eat It Too [Brownstoner]
Fort Greene Association [FGA Homepage]
western beef?? yuck. i guess that kind of seals the doom of that area…
If they could move this house to a private lot they could sell it to some idiot for 1.9 million.
Sorry no whole foods. Western Beef has a deal with the city and they get first dibs on lots near projects.
Isn’t it already a brick filled shell that’s been sitting around while people dicker over it for years?
knock it down and give us a whole foods or a movie theater.
What happened to compromise? There is plenty of room there for both a market and the Row, even if it means loosing one or two of the most damaged houses. As a preservationist, I can live with that. Better that than a big, empty, brick filled hole for years, while they dicker over who will actually build the market, as from earlier reports, there isn’t any actual developer on board. That serves no one whatsoever, and would be a tragic historical loss.
This is the one house they should save.
It is the oldest and most significant one.
I’m sure there would be plenty of space left over for a supermarket on the rest of the lot. Or they could move the house over some.
moving a house like this is not a problem.
Those who live in public houses should not cast brownstones.
There’s tons of space for a supermarket and the folks who live in the pjs should be given the training and construction jobs to restore Admiral’s row and turn into a tourist attraction.
“If the Navy Yard abandons the project, Councilwoman Letitia James, whose district includes the town houses, said in an interview, “we’ll have buildings that are falling down, and I’ll have no supermarket.â€
That’s hilarious- Letitia James has never been able to get to a supermarket before. We need to tear these down so SHE can have one.
Why is this neighborhood incapable of sprouting a supermarket in any location but the officers housing?
The article starts off by explaining that many in the Farragut houses regard the officers row as an eyesore. That’s hardly a reason to knock anything down- many share a converse opinion about what in that neighborhood makes the eye sorest.