Friday Links

theres an absolutely ancient farmhouse in the back yard of a junk store on Van Brunt street in red Hook. It looks like its gonna collapse in the next gale. It doesn’t seem to be listed in that farmhouse article.

Why do they landmark common, cookie-cutter brownstones everywhere, even when thousands of brownstones are already landmarked, but they don’t landmark Dutch farmhouses dating back to the 1700’s? How’s this for an answer – the income tax being paid in the neighborhoods that contain the remaining dutch houses isn’t high enough and there aren’t enough yuppies living there.

If self-proclaimed Brooklyn preservationists were truly preservationists and the real thing, they would strive to protect historical buildings in ALL of the borough and all of NYC, not just the ones in their own neighborhoods. It’s disgusting how many of these farmhouses have been torn down, and as recently as just a few years ago. Shameful. The Lefferts house was moved into Prospect Park. Other Dutch farmhouses could be moved into NYC parks or into other locations. Get creative.

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