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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benson, you are right. In New York City, the “Macdonald triad†of construction is a.) budgetary/cost micromanagement and political misrepresentation; b.) unreasonably rigid DOB regulations, landmarking and other codes; and c.) contractor and union management. Achieving progress under these conditions is especially remarkable; achieving public works is impossible.
Seems we have a new poster, and an architect no less. Welcome.
The landmarks program has been there for over 30 years helping low income homeowners fixup facades of their homes. While facades are private- streets are public and theses facades through landmarking become public goods that are enjoyed by all that walk on the streets and get to view them from public thoroughfares.
Send some stimulus money to the program to fixup some more homes in Crown Heights and the Bronx…. some beautiful houses there need help too….
I agree with you on Robert Moses. Many here do not but I do.
“Restoring some facades in two dead-end courts in Bed Stuy” has nothing to do with the bigger picture problems. It’s a local weather issue vs. climate change. No reason to blame the small focused projects like this for the shortcomings of city planners though
“you lob them around like tennis balls”
Careful, we don’t want to get dragged inot the elitism argument again
“bxgirl, you thrown around racism WAY too much. it’s actually insulting. i have not said a single racist thing.”
Rob, you don’t have to throw the “N-word” around to qualify for racist comments. In fact, it’s comments like your Bed Stuy taxpayer remark that do more damage than simple name calling, and are inherently more racist than not. It is NOT “kinda/sorta true”. It’s a very non-thinking, flip, ignorant and stupid remark that gets you the scorn and derision you sometimes deserve here. Do yourself a favor and shut up now.
false dichotomy Benson, this is not a choice between Mrs. Henderson’s re-faced brownstone and a cross-bay freight tunnel.
DIBS;
Perhaps this is not the place for it, but I think someone should put some perspective on these issues, and I am more than happy to be that person.
I am really tempted to change my handle to “Long Live Robert Moses”. Everybody knocks the guy, but the fact of the matter is that no great public works have been built since he left the scene. We can’t get a damn thing done anymore in this city in terms of what really makes a city advance – new subways, roads, great public works, but folks seem to not care a whit. I don’t see restoring some facades in two dead-end courts in Bed-Stuy, using public money, as changing this do-nothing mentality.
rob- you’ve said many – especially in today’s thread-but you don’t have the capacity to recognize it. And you should be the last person to talk about feeling insulted when you lob them around like tennis balls.