213 Cumberland Slinks Back to LPC
Apparently someone blew the whistle on the owners of 213 Cumberland Street in Fort Greene for altering the fence around their brownstone. (The inset photo shows how the fence looked last year before the alterations.) The violation was particularly noticeable because of the property’s corner location across the street from the entrance to Fort Greene…
Apparently someone blew the whistle on the owners of 213 Cumberland Street in Fort Greene for altering the fence around their brownstone. (The inset photo shows how the fence looked last year before the alterations.) The violation was particularly noticeable because of the property’s corner location across the street from the entrance to Fort Greene Park. (According to LPC, the owners also put in some new windows without getting them approved first.) As a result, they’re going in front of LPC today to try to get retroactive approval. Frankly, we think this fence looks a little silly and is too prominent to let slide. We bet Olde Good Things has some old iron fencing in its warehouse that would look a lot better. Update: We just heard from LPC that the hearing on 213 Cumberland ended up getting laid over until next week.
Agenda 2/26/08 [Landmarks Preservation Commission] GMAP
Photo by Scott Bintner for PropertyShark
“OHMIGOD can you imagine what Clinton Hill would look like right now if it did not have Landmark status? The luxury condo towers would be sprouting on every block. houses and churches would be bulldozed for mid-rise and high-rise development complexes one after the other.”
Nope Nope Nope!!! You miss the point! If not for the Mutant Real Estate Bubble there wouldn’t be any assfucks building shit!!! It was greed that drove this asset bubble and douchbag motherfuckers!!! For years no builld any thing in these neighborhoods and now we have cheap money, everyone is a investor. Everybody wants a brownstone in da hood and with that you get the assfucks
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
I thought Clinton Hill already DID look like that.
Guest 12:52 is EXACTLY RIGHT.
Thanks for that.
Some people here don’t seem to get the point:
When you live in a landmark district, it’s your responsibility to put up a fence that looks like the original, that preserves the character of the hood.
This fence is ridiculously out of proportion and too tall, and does not look like the original.
Topping those nice bowling-pin posts with a quarter-inch thick piece of flat iron looks terrible. Then, the problem gets compounded with those too-tall arrow sections. They should have put some kind of fat iron railing on top of the bowling pins, kept the puppy about waist-high, like all of their neighboring houses, submitted that plan to LPC as required by law, and called it a day.
OHMIGOD can you imagine what Clinton Hill would look like right now if it did not have Landmark status? The luxury condo towers would be sprouting on every block. houses and churches would be bulldozed for mid-rise and high-rise development complexes one after the other. There would not be a browsntone block left intact. Not one. So you gotta take the good with the bad. The LPC staffers are nitpickers, and it can drive you crazy. but you should always get a permit BEFORE you spend time and money on an improvement like this. Otherwise it is basically illegal. What part of that is hard to understand? In an advanced society owners have to obey land-use rules. Landmarking happens to be part of that. End of story.
“benno, that’s a great point. While the What may not mind developers razing beautiful mansions in Brooklyn to put up condos, some of us do”
See Assfuck That’s not the point!!! Don’t try to shift this argument. My point is people should mind there own fucking business!!!!!! How about I put your shit on the web or rat out when you try to improve your house. Maybe it’s turning out to be like “1984”!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
Some people here don’t seem to get the point:
When you live in a landmark district, it’s your responsibility to put up a fence that looks like the original, that preserves the character of the hood.
This fence is ridiculous. Topping those nice bowling-pin posts with a quarter-inch thick piece of flat iron looks terrible. Then, the problem gets compounded with those too-tall arrow sections. They should have put some kind of fat iron railing on top of the bowling pins, kept the puppy about waist-high, like all of their neighboring houses, submitted that plan to LPC as required by law, and called it a day.
the what just proved that instead of being the “Sage of Recession”. He’s just a bitter motherfucker.
I mean the RAGE against the LPC?
Dude, there’s drugs you can take for this.
benno, that’s a great point. While the What may not mind developers razing beautiful mansions in Brooklyn to put up condos, some of us do. Someone should tell him he doesn’t have to worry about the LPC as I highly doubt the rock under which he lives is landmarked.