Afternoon Links: Historic Downtown Board of Ed Building May Be Razed for New Development
Historic Downtown Board of Ed building may be razed for development, new renderings for final City Point tower and more Brooklyn news.
Coney Island. Photo by David Tan via Flickr
In the News
Presidential Debate Stage in Brooklyn Reflects Changing Economy [NYT]
Segregation Issue Complicates de Blasio’s Housing Push [NYT]
The Story of the Row House in Brooklyn and Beyond [UO]
City May Raze Historic Board of Ed Building for New Development [BK Paper]
P.S. 321 Flea Market Opens Under New Management [Park Slope Stoop]
New Renderings for Extell’s 59-Story City Point Tower [NYY]
“Refugees Are Welcome Here” Signs Spread Across Brooklyn [DNA]
Comment of the Day
I know this house quite well. It is in Williamsburg and right around the corner from my house. My grandfather purchased it in the early 1904 or so and the family owned it until 1966 and I lived there from the early 1950s until 1966. It was a big one family home with my grandfather’s office, he was a eye surgeon, on the back of the second floor. The front of the building was a waiting room that doubled as a parlor. All the bedrooms (four) and a bathroom were on the third floor. The dining room and kitchen were on the ground floor which was not shown. My parents had their wedding reception in that house, which was relatively formal, and the place was packed from the pictures I have. The house became a duplex after my family sold it. I got a quick live glimpse of the second floor when the new owners moved in and my wife and I wish them well. What memories I have of that place. If those beams could talk!
— SteveSmith in The Insider: Williamsburg Townhouse Gutted and Rebuilt as Open, Loft-Like Home
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