LPC Putting Vic Flatbush Nabes on the Calendar
Flatbush Life reports that Fiske Terrace and Midwood Park, two neighborhoods with the larger area known as Victorian Flatbush, are likely to receive landmark status in the upcoming months. On September 19, LPC plans to officially set a date for a public hearing on the matter. The two nabes encompass about 250 houses, many of…
Flatbush Life reports that Fiske Terrace and Midwood Park, two neighborhoods with the larger area known as Victorian Flatbush, are likely to receive landmark status in the upcoming months. On September 19, LPC plans to officially set a date for a public hearing on the matter. The two nabes encompass about 250 houses, many of which were built between 1904 and 1920 by the architects Theodore Ackerson and John Corbin. “The predominantly Colonial Revival and Shingle Style houses are largely intact, asymmetrically massed and feature spacious porches, elaborate projecting towers, oriels and bays, Palladian windows and deep eaves,” reads a preliminary LPC brief. “The neighborhood also has an unusual street plan that includes landscaped malls and short streets that dead-end at the BMT subway cut.” Seems like a no-brainer to us!
Landmark Status for Stately Nabe? [Flatbush Life]
Also, it should be noted that before the apartment buildings went up on these streets, they were lined entirely with frame houses. There are usually a handful, sometimes more (marlborough and rugby b/w Ditmas and Dorchester, for example)that survive, nestled between the later buildings.
I was told that at some point the houses between Ditmas and Dorchester were incorporated into Ditmas Park West, although they were not originally pary of DPW. Got this from someone who is involved with DPW landmarking application.
oddly enough, i think the houses between courtelyou and dorchester are considered part of flatbush proper. i might be wrong about that, and i don’t have my book on the history of brooklyn neighborhoods in front of me, but i do remember that flatbush has weird long tentacles like that that reach into what would seem to be entirely different neighborhoods on its western side.
the buildings between courtelyou and dorchester are mainly large co-op and rental buildings, i’m not sure about the blocks between newkirk and foster… anyone?
Isn’t the house that was torn down on Stratford on the block that is kind a DMZ between BSW & DPW ?
What nab do houses between Cortelyou and Dorchester belong to? Per this map they have no nab. http://www.marykayg.com/html/vic_flatbush.html
Whatever one thinks of Mary Kay’s business interests, it’s true that she championed Victorian Flatbush for decades, long before its recently acquired reputation as a “hot” residential neighborhood (with price tags to match). She used to be the only person who cared to even list possible exception of Julie Kestyn. who was also active out here long before the brokers on the other side of the park got on the bandwagon. Corcoron, BP, A&H, and Warren Lewis have all listed properties in this neighborhood in recent years, but the do owe some debt to Mary Kay and her pioneering ways.
I grew up in Flushing in the 50’s and 60’s – near Main Street – and I remember seeing beautiful old Queen Anne houses torn down and replaced with apartment buildings – even as a child I was upset by it – I guess I was starting to care about old buildings even then – anyway the old houses are mostly all gone and the result isn’t very pretty.
R6 zoning in the area is also an issue Ditmas Park West Homeowners Association is campaigning for rezone. A Victorian house on Stratford near Cortelyou was just purchased, knocked down, and according to the association, the lot is slated for an apartment building. Nothing to stop it.
Land marking status for any and all sections of Victorian Flatbush can’t come quickly enough. Every week is seems someone get the “bright” idea that a wonderful wood frame Victorian would be much better off clad in brick (or stucco) or even knocked down to put up an apartment building.
I am sorry but how does Mary Kay have anything to do w/Landmarks. I don’t think she has any control over this.
It seems to me that every time Victorian Flatbush is mention the same person seems to say almost the very same nasty things about her.
I guess you are want Brownstoner refers to as a TROLL, TROLL TROLL….