What a Difference a Week Makes on Washington
The Pratt Area Community Council demolished another floor of this old brownstone on Washington Avenue between Fulton and Gates last weekend. At the current pace, the whole thing should be gone by the end of the month. Kinda makes you wonder how much of a priority the group really places on the architecture of the…
The Pratt Area Community Council demolished another floor of this old brownstone on Washington Avenue between Fulton and Gates last weekend. At the current pace, the whole thing should be gone by the end of the month. Kinda makes you wonder how much of a priority the group really places on the architecture of the Fulton Mall.
What’s Happening at 483 Washington [Brownstoner] GMAP
If you are the same Anonymous from 11:35, 11:39, 11:43, 12:25 etc., you don’t seem to know anything about PACC at all so how do you know they have ‘back-sliden [sic]’? You thought they were the same as Pratt Institute and you seem completely unaware of any of their projects.
I hope other residents of FG and CH will take the time to enlighten you. You don’t seem to want to listen to anything that doesn’t support your misguided beliefs about PACC.
Maybe you can start your own grassroots organization that buys historic buildings all over Brooklyn and restores them to their former glory at great expense and really fast. Now that’s a noble cause.
Nope, I would object to destroying historically/architecturally significant buildings in those nabes as well. I was simply pointing to the fact that other nabes have a greater percentage of contiguous vacant lots that are begging to be developed.
I can appreciate your commitment to PACC, clinton hillbilly. You’re entitled to your own opinion. I’d like to hear from the other residents of fg and ch. I personally think that PACC has ‘back-sliden’ a bit from it’s original grass-roots beginning. But I’m open to being convinced otherwise.
Aren’t there lots of contiguous vacant spaces in bed-stuy, prospect heights, crown heights, ocean hill, east new york, brownsville, etc.
You mean places where you don’t live?
PACC is a grassroots organization with a mission to help a specific neighborhood, that’s why they don’t focus on borough- or city-wide projects. I personally welcome their efforts to maintain ethnic and economic diversity in Clinton Hill and Fort Greene.
Why not focus on improving the borough as a whole? Why do their efforts have to be focused on Clinton Hill specifically. My objections are that they’re taking great properties offline only to destroy them many years later. In the mean time, the residents have to deal with an eyesore, poorer street lighting, deserted rat-infested buildings, etc.
The fact is that they’re destroying historically significant buildings. Someone out there would love to buy it, rehab it and make it a home. And I think that if given a choice the community would vote for keeping the historic building over a new mega development (affordable housing or otherwise). Aren’t there lots of contiguous vacant spaces in bed-stuy, prospect heights, crown heights, ocean hill, east new york, brownsville, etc.
Anon 1:13:
When you refer to ‘vacant land’, how big is it? Most groups like PACC need to get vacant land that is considerably bigger that a lot size for a brownstone to make the development economically viable. And, there’s not a lot of vacant land left. Also, they take longer to develop properties because of numerous factors like community approval, any environmental issues, raising financing, etc. If groups like this didn’t persevere, we’d only have developers who do Fedders buildings in the blink of an eye.
That guy on Classon is a turkey. We called him last summer and he wanted something like $1.1 million. Guess that explains why he hasn’t lowered the price. Those two buildings that PACC has control of are absolute treasures, albeit shells. They better not f*#@ them up.
Oops, meant to say ‘especially when these buildings’ instead of ‘business’.