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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Rob;
I think you and I are becoming the “bad boys” of Brownstoner, now that the What seems to be out of the picture.
Perhaps we need to be sent off to re-education camp!
😉
rob- really? I’ll warrant if we took a vote on the most moronic statements ever made on brownstoner, I wouldn’t come close to the stupidity and asininity you make a habit of posting on a daily basis.
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Better this than that stupid UES train line
most moronic statement on b’stoner. EVER
*rob*
No- you did a slam bang up job on yesterday’s open thread. ANd now I’ done with the off topic posts.
Except to say how interesting Al Vannished came out for the photo op but couldn’t be bothered to show up for the debates or intake center meetings.
So happy these are now landmarked. They are remarkable and lovely little streets.
Bxgrl and Montrose;
I’ll stop the debate at this point, before it gets any uglier. I made no personal points – I did not call anyone any names on this thread.
Finito.
benson- so what? Fits and starts. The UES also has a lot more buses and access to amenities than many neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Pity the poor people who have to walk a few blocks to the subway when there are thousands in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island to have to drive to the subway.
And you might want to ask yourself why Montrose HAS an Amen choir and you don’t? You’re a sour puss because you go off on people and scream f*ck you at them when they have done nothing to warrant it- except to your overwrought sensitivities. You owe snappy a serious apology (as well as others, including MM).
Benson, agreeing with me is not a prerequisite of this site, and I have no problem with healthy debate. The fact that you have commented on my supposed “Amen Choir” several times really tells me that its “existence” bothers you more than pleases anyone else.
Your explanation now is very different than your first post. The navel gazing remark is still unexplained, as you agreed so enthusiastically with Rob’s ignorant remarks.
As architerrorist mentioned, England has had a long and strong preservation movement for over 150 years, when people in the time of William Morris were noting that much of their architectural history was being lost. He started the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings, one of the first preservationist organizations. Thank goodness, for them, and for the American movement it inspired.
Europe? I lived in the UK, and let me tell you, the “landmarks” departments over there make the NYC LPC look like playschool.
Montrose;
Aw come on, just because I’m not a member of the “Amen Choir” means that I’m a sourpuss??? How about thinking of me as someone who has a different point of view?
To your point: I wish the folks in these homes only the best. I would like to see these homes preserved too. I would like to see that accomplished in the proper order: a booming economy, with good jobs for folks. I would like to see a government focused towrds making the necessary public investments to make that happen.
Bxgrl: the 2nd Ave subway will not just run on the Upper East Side. The 2nd Ave subway has been the top priority of subway planners since the Wagner administration. It is poor transportation planning to have only one line (the Lex) running through the most developed part of the city. The construction of the 2nd Ave. subway has been going on, in starts and fits, since the 1950’s.