BREAKING: LPC Approves Eberhard Faber Historic District

Just moments ago, the Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously voted to designate a cluster of five industrial buildings in Greenpoint henceforth to be known collectively as the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company Historic District. (Map on the jump.) In addition to the eponymous headquarters at 61 Greenpoint Avenue and pencil factory at 37 Greenpoint Avenue, the group of designees includes the buildings at 58 Kent Avenue, 59 Kent Avenue and 105 West Street. One commissioner remarked that “development fever is raging through the neighborhood—as well as fires—so the sooner this is protected, the better.” As the Waterfront Preservation Alliance has noted, noticeably absent from the designation are the pair of buildings that developer Isaac Katan leveled earlier this year.
LPC To Calendar Cluster of Greenpoint Buildings [Brownstoner] GMAP

Building photo directly above by i’m just sayin