Closing Bell: Celebrating Bay Ridge, Victorian Flatbush

The Historic Districts Council has released its list of “6 to Celebrate” for 2012, the preservation group’s annual program that identifies six neighborhoods “that merit preservation as priorities for HDC’s advocacy and consultation over a yearlong period.” Last year’s list included Gowanus and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Here’s the HDC’s writeup about Bay Ridge: “Elegant rowhouses, Victorian-era mansions and pre-war apartment buildings combine with parks, vibrant commercial streets and impressive institutional buildings to make Bay Ridge a quintessential New York City neighborhood. For more than 30 years, the Bay Ridge Conservancy has been working to preserve and enhance the built environment of this architecturally and ethnically diverse area.” And this is what the organization has to say about Victorian Flatbush: “Located in the heart of Brooklyn, Victorian Flatbush is known for being the largest concentration of Victorian-era homes in the country. The area presently has five New York City Historic Districts, but the blocks in between them remain undesignated and unprotected despite architecture of the same vintage and style. Six local groups representing Beverly Square East, Beverly Square West, Caton Park, Ditmas Park West, South Midwood and West Midwood have joined together with the Flatbush Development Corporation to “complete the quilt” of city designation of their neighborhoods.”
6 to Celebrate 2012 [HDC]
Historic Districts Council Releases List of “Six to Celebrate” [Curbed]