Historic District and AY: Like Pieces of a Puzzle
This map put together by Tracy Collins and picked up by the Atlantic Yards Report last week caught our eye but we didn’t have room to fit it in at the end of the week. It very nicely summarizes how the newly-designated Prospect Heights Historic District overlays with the footprint of Forest City Ratner’s proposed…
This map put together by Tracy Collins and picked up by the Atlantic Yards Report last week caught our eye but we didn’t have room to fit it in at the end of the week. It very nicely summarizes how the newly-designated Prospect Heights Historic District overlays with the footprint of Forest City Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards project. Cozy!
Historic District Will Wrap Around AY Parking [AY Report]
Listen to me OK? The staff at the LPC are wonks. they lay the boundaries where they see the boundaries. Their holiday bonus will not be bigger one way or the other other. You know why? Because they don’t get bonuses. They don’t get shit. They do the grungde work and others profit. There are no all-expense-paid junkets for the LPC staff. They don’t give a shit about private sector goodies because they are public sector workhorses.
A million dollars says that once the arena is finished, Ratner will advertise it as being located in the “historic Prospect Heights” neighborhood!
alternatives to the fat one arrive:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06292009/news/regionalnews/brooklyn/rival_rips_marty_over_yards_work_176592.htm
Clearly, theintent behind landmarking Prospect Heights was to forestall any more encroachment of the proposed AY arena and any more of the accessorie uses.
the expanse of the historic district is fine by me. but you can’t really use it to “prove” anything about blight or not-blight…particularly because so much of the advocacy that led to the designation as it is today was in fact spurred by dismay over AY. if you actually walk around some of the areas in the map – say, vanderbilt between pacific and dean – it’s pretty clear that the agenda isn’t necessarily to protect buildings of historic significance but rather to cock-block development. though there may be some nice buildings on that block, a couple of them are junk that doesn’t really deserve protection. they carved out buildings on flatbush that look much better and seem (to my untrained eye) more significant, but not on the parts of vanderbilt closest to the footprint. but hey, like i said, doesn’t bother me – i don’t particularly want my whole neighborhood, even the crappy parts, to become even crappier parking garages.
No, we just hadn’t seen the two maps overlaid. Not suggesting anything.
the full article mentions that Ratner used the term “blight” to describe the area in his presentations to promote AY. Funny how much of the present blight is because Mr. Ratner tore down buildings, yet its now interlocking with a huge new historic district. Wards Bakery should have been included in that district but the LPC dropped the ball on that.
Is there no end to this ignominy?
what do you mean by “cozy”? are you suggesting that there is some kind of collusion between FCR and the LPC? and how is this news? since the historic district proposal was revised, this has been plainly obvious to anyone who can read maps.