Carroll Gardens Historic District May Grow
The Landmarks Preservation Commission released the boundaries of the expanded Historic District it is pushing for in Carroll Gardens and, not surprisingly, not everyone was pleased. The city would like to expand the pitifully small area that was protected back in 1973 (shown above) to include all the blocks bounded by Court Street, Henry Street,…
The Landmarks Preservation Commission released the boundaries of the expanded Historic District it is pushing for in Carroll Gardens and, not surprisingly, not everyone was pleased. The city would like to expand the pitifully small area that was protected back in 1973 (shown above) to include all the blocks bounded by Court Street, Henry Street, Huntington Street and First Place. Sounds like a nice idea to us but there are bound to be some whiners, right? Right. “Landmarking will force the old-timers out,” said John Esposito, co-founder of Citizens Against Landmarks. “All the new people who have $100,000 income a year think this is a great idea.” (This choice of this number seems reminiscent of Dr. Evil’s famous “one million dollars” line in Austin Powers; after all, it’s not like $100,000 a year goes too far in the Carroll Gardens housing market these days!) The plan for expanding the historic district is supported by the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association and the Brooklyn Preservation Council, and seems to be in keeping with the spirit of last year’s rezoning which made it harder to put up new out-of-context buildings in the low-rise community. No-brainer!
City Wants Second Carroll Gardens Historic District [NY Post]
novanglus — That’s a nice sentiment… but it’s also not possible to put a value on many of the things we must forgo because we are spending resources on Landmark regulations.
“We’re over in the OT talking about blowjobs if anybody wants a break from this noise.” –
what exactly are you offering — and when? I’ll be there.
Pinoli.
Wow, it’s like a vagina tornado ran into a sandstorm over here.
We’re over in the OT talking about blowjobs if anybody wants a break from this noise.
Good God, Benson, you can sure take things wayyyyyy beyond what is intended, personalize it, and then go on defensive mode. Italians, like EVERY OTHER GROUP,have bigots and indefensible jerks. No one with a brain, especially no one who has written here, thinks for a moment that ALL Italians are bigoted, or that even ALL Italians in Carroll Gardens are bigoted. Personal experiences are personal experiences. If your hypethetical person had a horrible experience in Crown Heights, that doesn’t mean all black people are bigots either, but then, I would not immediately assume that they meant that either. Who appointed you the defender of all Italian Americans? They don’t need it.
Your use of Bxgrl’s “template” was also a very cheap shot. If I was your kind of reactionary, I’d be calling you out for the same kind of nonsense you are accusing everyone else of. Why pick on black people? Aren’t you jumping to easy stereotypes, as well?
One can’t put a dollar valuation on the preservation of historical architecture. Not only for everyone living in the neighborhood but for everyone who will ever not only live in but walk through it. For a lot of people, those brownstones are not just things for architecture geeks and history buffs, but the essence of Brooklyn–hence this blog’s big following.
“And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.”
Also, $100K for a household is barely enough to afford renting a semi-decent 2br in Carroll Gardens. $200K gets a household maybe a 2br, 2bath condo, or a 3br if you really hit the jackpot.
Pine nuts then?
There is no Italian word for ‘walnut’, dh.
“The fact is that folks are projecting here.”
Sorry, benson, real live experience from real live residents trumps your statements. It isn’t pleasant, but it happened. Denying that there was hostility in CH/CG towards “outsiders”/non-italians, is just silly.