LPC Makes It Official at Alice & Agate Courts
Yesterday LPC head Robert Tierney, Council Member Al Vann and about two dozen people celebrated the designation of the Alice and Agate Courts Historic Districts with a ceremony to unveil two new street signs and an announcement that five residents had won LPC grants totaling $84,000 to help restore their historic, 19th century homes. The…
Yesterday LPC head Robert Tierney, Council Member Al Vann and about two dozen people celebrated the designation of the Alice and Agate Courts Historic Districts with a ceremony to unveil two new street signs and an announcement that five residents had won LPC grants totaling $84,000 to help restore their historic, 19th century homes. The grants, which come from the Commission’s Historic Preservation Grant Program and range from $12,000 to $20,000 apiece, are going to be used to repaint, repoint and repair the facades of five homes on both of those streets. Alice and Agate Courts are the 21st historic district designated under Tierney, 12 of which have been outside of Manhattan. Guess how many have been in Brooklyn? Seven. Top notch!
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We should also add redlining by banks. Many neighborhoods like Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights are still suffering the effects of that. There was no money for upkeep or maintainence and the issue of landmarking as making house repair too expensive as the reason for houses being in such a state of disrepair doesn’t hold any water. the majority of Bed-Stuy (but for 2 landmark districts now) is not landmarked. Crown heights got phase one landmarked 2 years ago. Homeowners in these neighborhoods couldn’t keep up the housing stock because of redlining, not landmarking.
While Robert Moses accomplished a great deal of good, he also blasted away neighborhoods and spent money on roads as opposed to infrastructure and public transportation. He was a racist- or do we need to repeat the overpass story?- and he operated for years without any checks and balances. Had he gotten his way on everything, NYC would be cut up by highways, even through the Village. And we would be even more car centric than we are now. Not a good thing.
Ditto;
Now you’re talking!!!
I was all for AY’s original plan by the way. It would have been great to have that Gehry.
It be willing to give up 2/3rds final salary pensions for city employees, city council slush funds, any money Sheldon Silver doles out and would make MTA workers pay for their health insurance contribution. I’d also have wardnes collecting fines for dog pooping and littering.
Of course, I wouldn’t actually be giving up anything, so its easy for me to say.
LC Arnett
I was checking the Landmarks website and saw that the program gave out $1.8 million in the last 10 years which calculated comes to $180,000 a year. Hmmmm…… not a lot of money.
They are completely separate issues, benson. Do you want all the small projects like this to cease and desist because AY and Coney island aren’t going anywhere?? BBP seems to be moving along despite what many people originally thought.
Lowhearts;
Now you CLEARLY are a person who knows the score in NYC. A breath of fresh air.
DIBS and Ditto;
One of my supervisors used to have an expression: “A nickel here, a nickel there, and pretty soon we’re talking about real money”, and so it goes with this topic. Restoring some brownstone facades in Bed-Sty, putting in some “historical” lamposts in BH to further disney-fy it, and soon we’re talking about real money. No money left for the important stuff (though one of the reasons I like Bloomberg is that he HAS restored some balance to the budget).
Montrose: the “tax photos” WERE for a public purpose, as their name implies. They were taken as an experiment by the city. They wanted to see if they could assess property “remotely” by photos, hence saving the city $ (by not having to travel to each building and making an assessment).
Now I just read LC Arnett’s post and look like a copycat. Please ignore my 3.26 post.