League Treatment Center To Take Poplar Police Building
To the chagrin of many Brooklyn Heights residents, any chance that the former 84th Street Precinct building at 72 Poplar Street would be converted to housing is now gone. According a tipster, a lease went out last week to the League Treatment Center, a program for developmentally and emotionally challenged that is losing its lease…
To the chagrin of many Brooklyn Heights residents, any chance that the former 84th Street Precinct building at 72 Poplar Street would be converted to housing is now gone. According a tipster, a lease went out last week to the League Treatment Center, a program for developmentally and emotionally challenged that is losing its lease at 30 Washington in Dumbo in a couple of years. This possibility was originally floated in the Brooklyn Eagle back in November; as recently as December 19, however, area residents were lobbying CB2 to support a residential variance for the 30,000-square-foot building in the hopes of avoiding this very outcome. GMAP
11:51 — of COURSE there is!
A few months ago there were posters on this blog who were convinced that the BHA was secretly pushing this use. Although for what reason, I could not imagine.
Now posters are writing that this well-regarded school for autistic children is somehow going to diminish property values in Brooklyn Heights.
I think this all goes to show that many posters do not know what they are talking about.
I don’t understand many of the prior comments. How could the Brooklyn Heights Association, or if this were Park Slope, the Park Slope Association, stop this tenant from renting a building in their neighborhood even if they wanted to?
This is an as-of-right use. There are no special permits or waivers or blessing from the community board required at all.
I was going to say this. I wouldn’t describe these kids/adults as “troubled”
The League Center mainly services autistic children and adults. So they are “troubled” in a different way than juvenile delinquents.
I must hand it to the BHA and neighbors. While they supported the condo idea and really wanted the school to expand, they didn’t FREAK OUT when the treatment center approached them.
Say what you want, but I can assure you the “liberals” in park slope would never have allowed this in their area.
MrHancock and his buddy at 10:34 don’t know what they’re talking about. (I know, not a prerequisite on blogs.) The people on the block and, until they didn’t, the Brooklyn Heights Association WANTED market-rate housing. So, phrases like “anti-condo, anti progress busybodies” is bull.
while NIMBY is not always welcome no matter where you live, i do understand the concern of many when you have an organization in the neighborhood that is attracting a population that is already troubled (with the law). Recidovism (sorry for the bad spelling)is very high and most folks fall back on a life of crime. Hence, the neighborhood becomes a bigger target.
I think a better use for this building would be a school (annex)
Astonishing – and gratifying – that this could go through. Most uses that would trigger NIMBY activity end up on the east side of Flatbush in CB2 (unless they’re in the Atlantic/Boerum area). But since they’re still in CB2, siting authorities can still say “Community Board 2 isn’t oversaturated” – because they’re not obligated to consider the fact that most of the saturation is in specific supersaturated areas of the Community Board, and bypasses the Heights.