ProHi Historic District Could Include Almost 800 Homes
Yesterday Atlantic Yards Report had a detailed post on the proposed Prospect Heights Historic District, which was the subject of a neighborhood meeting that representatives from the Landmarks Preservation Commission attended last week. According to the representatives, historic district designation could take up to two years. This is a neighborhood long of interest to the…
Yesterday Atlantic Yards Report had a detailed post on the proposed Prospect Heights Historic District, which was the subject of a neighborhood meeting that representatives from the Landmarks Preservation Commission attended last week. According to the representatives, historic district designation could take up to two years. This is a neighborhood long of interest to the commission, said Kate Daly, the LPC’s executive director, at the meeting. The boundaries of the proposed district (which are not yet set in stone) are shown above in a map the LPC sent us. It runs as far north as Pacific and Carlton, with a large section bordering Flatbush Ave and running approximately all the way down to Grand Army Plaza and almost as far east in one section as Washington Avenue. “So far the district would include approximately 776 buildings, and the next step is to get feedback from homeowners about the meeting we attended last week,” says LPC spokesperson Elisabeth de Bourbon. After that, the Commission will hold a public hearing on the designation that should happen before the end of the year.
The Prospect Heights Historic District Nudges Forward [AY Report]
Why aren’t those buildings at the corner of Sterling Place and Flatbush in the boundaries. They’re on the National Register.
What Bob and Montrose said. I concur. I walk these streets daily, tis my hood.
Bob Marvin and Montrose Morris, neither of you live in PH and you’ll both be dead soon anyway, so stay out of it.
Consensus at the meeting was that we don’t need lpc to come in and tell us what we can and can’t do with our houses: tell us we can’t put solar panels toward the front of our roofs, can’t put in the new windows we can afford to improve energy efficiency, paint our doors the color we like, and slow down ALL interior changes and charge us an extra fee when we already have to deal with the DOB.
If you and they are not helping pay my mortgage, you can shut the hell up and stay out of prospect heights.
ProHi? That is just stupid.
What Bob said.
Whenever Polemicist starts in, I always immediately think of Metropolis, the future segments of HG Wells’ Time Machine, and those Tokyo hotels where they cram people into sleeping cubicles. Not the city I want to live in.
Prospect Heights is more than worthy of historic designation. An historic district includes masterpieces of architecture, good examples of common styles, and a couple of lemons that luck out by being in the right place. It’s the sum of the whole that is important.
ProHi?
FWIW Polemicist has shown over and over that he is incapable of understanding the reasons for having historic districts (which certainly do not require each and every building to be a masterpiece). Anything that interferes with cramming maximum density into any area is anathema to him–I suspect that he’d see the Fritz Lang film “Metropolis” as a near-perfect model of urban planning. (And yes, I know I’m being “selfish”, according to his frame of reference) for supporting the establishment of historic districts–I can easily live with that).
What ever ^^^^! Hurry up LPC. ProHi needs major protection from developers and their weird styrofoam cubes on top of 3 family brownstones left and right.
why not some of the areas on Butler Place and other excellent blocks near GAP? Seems like it excludes quite a few deserving blocks that ARE in PH