A Race Against the Down-Zoning Clock in Flushing
The downside of New York’s real estate boom is being felt in Waldheim, an historic estate subdivision in Queens, reports John Freeman Gill in The Times. In a pattern we’ve seen before, developers are rushing to replace the 100-year-old Victorian free-standing homes with out-of-context multi-family dwellings before the area can be rezoned. Local preservationists, who…
The downside of New York’s real estate boom is being felt in Waldheim, an historic estate subdivision in Queens, reports John Freeman Gill in The Times. In a pattern we’ve seen before, developers are rushing to replace the 100-year-old Victorian free-standing homes with out-of-context multi-family dwellings before the area can be rezoned. Local preservationists, who have failed to get the area declared an historic district in the past, are hoping the City Planning will move swiftly with the rezoning. Other, less architecturally-minded and more bottom-line-oriented owners are against the idea of down-zoning.
Effort to Fend Off Bulldozers in Queens [NY Times] GMAP
The Rape of Flushing [Forgotten NY]
This is a sorry state of affairs.
I think a new 5-story, 6-family building that filled the lot would look great next to that house. What’s the problem?