Prospect Heights Landmarked!
This just in: The Landmarks Preservation Commission earlier today unanimously approved the designation of the Prospect Heights Historic District, culminating a widespread effort by the likes of the Municipal Art Society and the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council that goes back over three years. The district contains 850 buildings and is the largest designation since…
This just in: The Landmarks Preservation Commission earlier today unanimously approved the designation of the Prospect Heights Historic District, culminating a widespread effort by the likes of the Municipal Art Society and the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council that goes back over three years. The district contains 850 buildings and is the largest designation since the Upper West Side got the nod back in 1990. Prospect Heights is among Brooklyn’s most distinguished, cohesive neighborhoods because of its architectural integrity and diversity, scale, tree-lined streets and residential character, said Chairman Tierney. These features lend the neighborhood its unique sense of place, making it a natural for historic district status. Woohooooo!
Proposed Prospect Heights Historic District Meeting at LPC [Brownstoner]
As Historic District Gets Hearing, Some Politic Omissions [AY Report]
Landmarks to Consider Prospect Heights Historic District [Brownstoner]
ProHi Historic District Could Include Almost 800 Homes [Brownstoner]
Growing Momentum for P’spect Heights Landmarking [Brownstoner]
smokychimp – is it your house or a new project? can you say which street you’re on?
They must be the same ones who have 300k to spend on a reno.
I guess my point is that I fully agree with the idea, just not the way it’s implemented. Why can’t we have strict limits on ‘trashing’ a house and take a benign view on repainting the front door? Why should we have to replace windows with expensive and less-efficient wood ones when similar and better ones are available (and I don’t mean cheap aluminum ones.) I guess enforcing a nuanced standard is more difficult than enforcing rigidity. easier.
cmu – i am in the neighborhood and approve of the landmarking. that said, there is little that the LPC can do from a practical perspective to stop you from repainting your door or getting a new outdoor light. they can slap you with a violation if someone notices and complains which means nothing unless and until you decide you want permits someday. i’m okay with this – more problematic to me are the houses that are clearly being neglected and are falling into disrepair. it’s obviously not landmarking that causes that problem, but landmarking does complicate the potential solutions. interestingly, the owners who let this happen are not the ones you’d necessarily guess – seem to be an equal number of committed community members/resident-owners letting their facades rot as there are absentee landlords doing the same…
How long before they replace all of the green street signs with the brown historic ones?
Does anyone know a good source for new entry doors that meet landmarks requirements?
Thanks.
CMU – after seeing a few houses trashed in our neighborhood most owners are very positive about landmarking.
woo woo
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Whoo Hooo… Yeah…Yeah! Too bad this did not include AY as most of the buildings there have already been demolished. Go Prospect Heights!!!
Congrats, lived in Prospect Heights for three years and loved it. One question, how did this happen in three years and it seems that extending the Bed Stuy historic district has taken forever?