BREAKING: Dumbo Designated as Landmark District
Moments ago, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 8-0 to designate the Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood of Dumbo as an historic district. Here’s what Commish Bob Tierney had to say: DUMBO was essential to Brooklyn’s rise as a major manufacturing center, and was home to some of America’s most important industrial firms that produced everything from ale…
Moments ago, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 8-0 to designate the Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood of Dumbo as an historic district. Here’s what Commish Bob Tierney had to say:
DUMBO was essential to Brooklyn’s rise as a major manufacturing center, and was home to some of America’s most important industrial firms that produced everything from ale and paper boxes to soap and steel wool. DUMBO’s distinctively designed buildings and sublime vistas survive to this day, and still define its character, even as it has evolved into a largely residential neighborhood. This designation will ensure that this still-evolving neighborhood retains its unique historic character.
The new district—bound by John Street to the north, York Street to the south, Main Street to the west and Bridge Street to the east—includes 91 buildings, most of them constructed between 1880 and 1920. Next up: A vote from City Council, which is expected to be a mere formality.
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Good grief!
So many posters are simply ignorant or uniformed or just plain obvious in the “trying – to -sound -like -someone-else” – like that comment 5:10 by “us parents” – Oh PUHLESE.
I am a parent in DUMBO and on the neighborhood association and in the Dumbo Parents Organization and no one who has even half a brain is taken in by that bullcrap about a public school in that location being good news for any dumbo parents.
Go to the DNA website & read more about the Dock Street Proposal & what a school there would really entail. Our rep David Yassky is opposed to the ludicrous & unrealistic notion of a school in that location – it is just an obvious ploy to get zoning & approval for a giant 16 story, 400+ rental tower with two stories of underground, below the water table parking – a giant Environmental nightmare. Also read what the folks at savethebrooklynbridge.com have to say about Dock street to get more info, other than some silly posting by some “Parent” happy about the “good news” about a proposed school that – once a plan is approved – may never happen anyway years down the pike in the morass of building.
The historic district boundaries: these were finally set by LPC with expert municipal advice after over ten years of grass roots effort and much compromise, in part due to the lobbying of developers for delays in designation & boundary changes. If developers had been stopped from altering or destroying buildings SOONER, the boundaries would have included many of the lots in question above and more. So stop whinging – it is set – it won’t include more ground & thank goodness it has finally happened – better late than never.
Also, Dumbo has plenty to preserve – the industrial buildings have lots of historical importance ( someone mentioned Gair, they are correct) and there is a lot of detail & care in many of the buildings – far more than a modern pre-fab monolith which slaps up in cheap slabs of lego like stuff, such as the horribly ugly and too brightly & ostentatiously lit Beacon Tower (85 Adams ) – though they do have a lovely rock garden. How do I know this about historical value? I read, I know my history, I am familiar with the report that got DUMBO placed on the National Register of Historic Places – people who sound off and are uniformed or just plain agitators – just STOP. You are causing damage.
So here it comes – more Wallentas/Two Trees or Developer’s Group employees or just some passive aggressive agitators ( or even people who just don’t like old buildings and are real nasty about it) can now ridicule me – safe in their anonymity.
All others, just don’t count the nay-saying opinions here as valid if you aren’t so familiar with the dumbo neighborhood. It isn’t everyone’s cup of tea – it is Industrial & old – and we love it that way. Thats why we bought here & live here & have set up business here. If you don’t like it – bug off & live somewhere else – like Co-Op CIty, or a Toll McMansion in the Poconos, or the Upper East SIde, or in the new strip of high rises on 6th Ave btwn 23rd & 34th Streets – there are a lot of options – just go away.
(ps – Here , here – right on, 8:53 PM)
Does anyone what the story is with the Jehovah’s building on Adams b/n Front and York? I heard that the Beacon bought their air space to build up so high, but as it looks like that Jehovah’s site is not included, could they (sell and) build another high rise? Also, it looks like the east side of Washington Street is also not included in the District. Is that possible, and if so, why? Those buildings should be preserved.
Oh 8:49, how you cut me to the quick.
Tool.
The shills for 2 trees are so absurdly apparent on this blog. Do you think that anyone thinks that you are sincere when you say moronic things like “if you asked the brooklyn bridge it would say build something tall and elegant next me” If you are shilling for millionaire developers you should at least be a better phony. After all this is what you have been paid for. By the way speak to anyone in the area, including politicians and board of ed people, and they all know and agree that the school is a phony trojan horse being used to put lipstick on a Pig. The pig, of course, being this giant, out of context, skyscraper that a developer wants to foist on his neighbors and his city. But please keep writing your bogus posts. This only helps to clarify and illustrate to most people the true colors and intent of two trees.
8:41
you certainly have a low opinion of the Brooklyn Bridge. Do you really think it is as
crude and vulgar as the family you grew up in?
I think if you asked the Brooklyn Bridge it would say, “Get outta my face ya piss-elegant yuppie hive!”
I think if you asked the Brooklyn Bridge it would say “build something tall and elegant next to me, not some squatty thing with low self-esteem”.
Build on dock street but don’t make 8′ ceiling, pancaked floors and long thin rectangle sized forms. Keep it a square with 12′ ceilings and windows that look tall (8′).
But condo owners with expensive views might not.