Park Slope Historic District Officially Calendared
As we reported on Friday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission began the process of expanding the Park Slope Historic District with the motion to calendar at yesterday’s weekly public hearing. The attendant verbiage rivals Moby Dick in length and mind-numbing specificity, but we were excited to get a fresh map (of the southern end of the…
As we reported on Friday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission began the process of expanding the Park Slope Historic District with the motion to calendar at yesterday’s weekly public hearing. The attendant verbiage rivals Moby Dick in length and mind-numbing specificity, but we were excited to get a fresh map (of the southern end of the expansion, at least) out of the process! Click on the image above to enlarge.
Park Slope Historic District Likely to Expand [Brownstoner]
Pretty funny. But seriously, once they draw a square box and call it a historic district, not all buildings will fall into that category. So do they use the Charleston, SC 70 year rule? (i.e. Anything still standing 70 years of age or older cannot be removed or altered unless done so by an act of God? Are the guidlines for renovation equally applicable to all structures?
So does this mean the Pavilion Theater HAS to keep the Purple Seating?
The housing stock along Sixth Avenue is much more attractive than Seventh. Why is that not being “protected”?
“The Ansonia factory and the former slum dwellings around it are historic?”
Yes, they are. The factory for the reasons Bob stated, the housing as examples of working class housing, in part, for the people who worked in the Ansonia factory, as well as elsewhere in the area. All together, they form a cohesive history of who were were, what we did, and where we lived in the 19th century. That is important culturally, as well as architecturally, and that is what landmarking is supposed to be preserving.
The fact that both the factory and the former “slum dwellings” are now popular and expensive places to live shows that they have value, and are attractive and desirable to a significant part of the population. Would a bland 1980’s apartment building, or a new condobox be more expensive or more popular? Fortunately, we’ll never know.
Kudos to Park Slope, especially those in PSCC, and others, who worked for years on this. I know there’s more to come, but this is a good first move, especially after all these years.
“How are recently completed new developments that suddenly fall into a historic district impacted?”
-they will be forced to add shutters at any cost to the owner.
How are recently completed new developments that suddenly fall into a historic district impacted?
The former factory of one of the major American clock manufacturers ISN’T historic? This industry was probably the first to have introduced American low cost mass production to the rest of the world. But what would Polemicist know? [AND, what’s he doing here? I thought P. had written Brooklyn off as being hopeless].
Polemecist only wants housing for the masses.
Why would they? It’s expensive condos now.