LPC to Vote on Crown Hts District Expansion
Montrose Morris filled us in on this excellent bit of information from the Crown Heights North Association’s town hall meeting on Wednesday night: “Commissioner Robert Tierney announced that Phase 2 of the Crown Heights North Historic District, comprised of 610 buildings, will go to an LPC vote on June 28, 2011. The area was calendared…
Montrose Morris filled us in on this excellent bit of information from the Crown Heights North Association’s town hall meeting on Wednesday night: “Commissioner Robert Tierney announced that Phase 2 of the Crown Heights North Historic District, comprised of 610 buildings, will go to an LPC vote on June 28, 2011. The area was calendared in 2009. The LPC will also vote to calendar Phase 3, which is made up of 630 buildings. This announcement was met with much applause by the audience. There is also a Phase 4 in the future. When all phases are done, Crown Heights North will be the largest historic district in Brooklyn.”
Crown Heights North Association: Landmarking [CHNA]
babs- we’ll be closely watching. The Elkin House is a real treasure. It was heartbreaking to see the interior, especially when enough of the bones were left to see how magnificent it once was.
Congratulations! No ACRIS filing on the Elkins house yet (which doesn’t mean the sale hasn’t happened; there’s often a lag). Fingers tightly crossed that it gets someone with lots of love and deep pockets to retore it.
Agreed, splendid job… although sleeping on their shabby doorstep can help too 🙂 One day when I get the money to afford a nice brownstone or something similar, it will probably be there in CH, though I’d swoon for something in the new proposed Bed-Stuy districts.
Anyway, keep at it. Preservation is a never-ending road.
Blayze, they got tired of us sleeping in their doorway, bugging them. Better to just do it.
Seriously, we are quite pleased all around. We owe it to our elected officials, community board leaders and fellow neighbors, led by CHNA, who never stopped advocating for this.
Lower UW – Phase 4. Agreed, extremely worthy of landmarking.
Awesome stuff, and yeah. A bit odd to see the LPC actually going forth with one of their often delayed district expansions. Good to see though.
Looks like one of the nicest stretches of St. Marks (Rogers to Nostrand) is a block and half out of the district. Is that street in Phase 3 or 4?
Hip, hip, hooray and all that! 🙂
I am pleasantly shocked that the LPC did this! It’s wonderful- and no less than this beautiful neighborhood deserves. We’re rooting for Bed-Stuy too, BSM. No other neighborhood needs landmarking more.