City Council Signs Off on Prospect Heights Landmarking
On Thursday, the City Council voted 47-0 in favor of the creation of the Prospect Heights Historic District; LPC had voted for the designation back in June. Just thought you’d wanna know. Prospect Heights Landmarking: The Video [Brownstoner] Prospect Heights Landmarked! [Brownstoner] Landmarks to Consider Prospect Heights Historic District [Brownstoner] Photo by Tracy Collins
On Thursday, the City Council voted 47-0 in favor of the creation of the Prospect Heights Historic District; LPC had voted for the designation back in June. Just thought you’d wanna know.
Prospect Heights Landmarking: The Video [Brownstoner]
Prospect Heights Landmarked! [Brownstoner]
Landmarks to Consider Prospect Heights Historic District [Brownstoner]
Photo by Tracy Collins
“Hopefully, if we can stay on point, this thread celebrating the Prospect Heights’s HD won’t descend into the kind of redneck discussion that totally killed the Alice and Agate Courts HD discussion last week”
Brooklynista;
Thanks for the memo. My thoughts have been cleansed, and I will blog according to the “script”.
Let me see if I’ve got it down right.
Aaaaaa-mmmeeeeen!!! Aaaaaaaayyyyyy-men!!! Aaaaayyyy-men!!!
How did I do?
benson, be more specific, the term “middle class” is meaningless. The NY Times considers the wealthiest elite middle class, some folks consider themsleves middle class because they are no longer receiving public assistance. The words mean everything and therefore nothing. House prices in many neighborhoods of Brookly, even the ones that are kind of iffy, have risen beyond what teachers, cops, and other civil servants can pay, beyond what a nurse can pay, or a store employee. The French would call that group the “petite bourgeoise” but we hate terms like that.
I do have a nagging suspicion that a city that turns its back on the majority of its hard-working citizens is going to be in trouble. We can’t all be stockbrokers and dermatologists. A milion plus dollars is an awful lot of money for a house or apartment.
This is, indeed, really GREAT NEWS! Especially coming on the heels of last week’s LPC’s designation of the Alice and Agate Courts HD and PLG’s new HD coming up for a LPC designation vote next month, it’s encouraging to see the preservation agenda now moving further south and east in Brooklyn where much of the housing stock is gorgeous and “affordable” but has not been protected against the forces of profit-driven, shoddy and fugly over-development.
Hopefully, if we can stay on point, this thread celebrating the Prospect Heights’s HD won’t descend into the kind of redneck discussion that totally killed the Alice and Agate Courts HD discussion last week.
It happened in Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope and Cobble Hill, and is spreading to other areas.
Posted by: benson at September 21, 2009 10:58 AM
Thank god. Otherwise you get Fedders carp and all sorts of fugly development.
Bklynrosie;
Landmarking =
Stopping supply of new housing in centrally located areas
+ Freezing housing stock to that of expensive-to-maintain old brownstones snd limestones
+Housing stock and accessibility attractive to wealthy folks
= eventual gentrification of the area!!
It happened in Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope and Cobble Hill, and is spreading to other areas.
Benson–I’m not sure I understand your comment. What does landmarking have to do with affordable housing? This is excellent news for Prospect Heights, a vibrant and diverse neighborhood.
“Great” news. Another blow against housing ever being affordable in NYC for the middle class.
to be fair, there’s still a lot of poverty in manhattan as well
*rob*
who cares as long as they still live in NYC…what neighborhood or borough makes no difference. they are all parts of a great whole.