Clinton Hill & Crown Heights North Meetings
Meeting of Crown Heights North Association (CHNA) takes place tonight at St. Gregory, the Catholic Church on corner of St. John’s Place and Brooklyn Avenue, ffrom 6:30-9 pm. The main topic is the upcoming landmarking. Representatives of LPC will be there to answer questions and explain what happens next in the quest for landmark status….
Meeting of Crown Heights North Association (CHNA) takes place tonight at St. Gregory, the Catholic Church on corner of St. John’s Place and Brooklyn Avenue, ffrom 6:30-9 pm. The main topic is the upcoming landmarking. Representatives of LPC will be there to answer questions and explain what happens next in the quest for landmark status.
New York Architecture Historian extraordinaire Francis Morrone will be spicing up this month’s Society for Clinton Hill meeting with a lecture called Does Brooklyn Have a Character Worth Preserving? Other topics this month include the annual Landmarks Award. The meeting takes place tomorrow, Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Luke’s Church Sanctuary on Washington Avenue between Dekalb and Willoughby.
I urge anyone who is interested in the landmarking procedure to come to the meeting. (How about you folks in the need to be landmarked Bed Stuy nabes and Lefferts Place?) There will be a lot of information about how the process works, and most of the speakers will be answering questions about what is or isn’t covered by Landmarking, the availability of grants and loans for landmarked properties, the grandfathering in of existing conditions, the question of whether or not you can opt out, or be included, and more.
People who are against this have complained that they haven’t been kept informed (not true) and that the city is planning to take their property somehow (also not true). Rumours are often more interesting than fact, but if you really want to get the information from those in the community who are really in the know, as well as city officials, please come to the meeting. Subway (3 train to Nostrand) is only 3 blocks away. Meeting is in the basement of the church school, and entrance on St.John’s Place is easy to see.