Closing Bell: Anti-Abandonment in Crown Heights
The blog Nostrand Park reports the Crown Heights North Association recently received a grant of $1,000 to revitalize architecturally significant homes in the neighborhood. They plan to develop ways to help owners renovate these otherwise neglected properties. If a property comes to mind, and you know background information about its history and neglect, the CHNA…
The blog Nostrand Park reports the Crown Heights North Association recently received a grant of $1,000 to revitalize architecturally significant homes in the neighborhood. They plan to develop ways to help owners renovate these otherwise neglected properties. If a property comes to mind, and you know background information about its history and neglect, the CHNA has asked you contact them at antiabandonment@gmail.com.
Photo by Shawn Rosvold via Nostrand Park
The $1000 is for us to conduct the study. Printing costs for example, and materials. Building a database and being in touch with homeowners, the city, etc. That thousand won’t last long, as we are serious about making sure our hard won landmarked areas not only stay intact, but are improved. A win/win for all concerned.
Is that a $1000 per home or total? If so , what is that going to do? You cannot even paint a house for that.
Bravo, MM, and best of luck to this very worthy effort!
That is exactly right, Babs. Obviously $1000 wouldn’t renovate much. We are very fortunate that we don’t have rows and rows of abandoned and run down buildings like some communities, but we do have some, including the ones Chrishavens mentioned, which are prominant on our list. We have a fair number of buildings that owners are warehousing that don’t look abandoned from the front perhaps, but neighbors are well aware that they often get squatters, or people going in to take whatever they can possible get from the back. We want to identify those as well.
We’d like to be able to offer real and concrete, pardon the pun, advice to those who can’t afford to do necessary work, hooking them up with programs that can meet their needs. We’d also like to put pressure on the warehousers and the slumlords to fix up or sell.
Actually, it’s a grant from the Citizen’s Committee of NY (CCNY), which specializes in giving out small grants like these. I imagine the CHNA will use the funds to help in identifying buildings and researching their histories, with an eye to getting renovation funds from other sources, as they said in their Nostrand Park piece: Our goal is to develop ways to help the owners renovate these properties.
the awesome CNNorth Association has their work cut out for them
just around the BK Childrens Museum are long term vacants at the corner of Kingston/St. Marks vacant, Brooklyn/Park Place and Bergen and Kingston.
Maybe that 1K is supposed to be used to find additional money.
Exactly how much revitalization is supposed to occur at $1K? That’s really not much money.
a thousand dollars isnt going to go far…sure you got the zeros right?