Slope HD Extension: In 3 Parts, Over 10+ Years?
The Post had an article yesterday with details about the push to extend the Park Slope Historic District so that it includes 4,000 more buildings. Right now, the Park Slope Civic Council is proposing an extension that would happen in three phases: “the first 1,350 buildings [are] bordered by Flatbush, Prospect Park West, Seventh Avenue,…
The Post had an article yesterday with details about the push to extend the Park Slope Historic District so that it includes 4,000 more buildings. Right now, the Park Slope Civic Council is proposing an extension that would happen in three phases: “the first 1,350 buildings [are] bordered by Flatbush, Prospect Park West, Seventh Avenue, 15th Street, and parts of Union Street and Fifth Avenue. The second phase includes 2,000 buildings east of Fifth Avenue, and the third, east of Fourth Avenue between Flatbush and 15th Street.” A trustee of the civic council estimates that it will take 3 years to get landmark status for the first section and that there would be 5 year gaps between the landmarking of the other two portions. The Slope’s Historic District currently includes 1,975 buildings. Update: Blog Save the Slope takes issue with some parts of The Post article.
City Aims to Expand Slope District [NY Post]
Photo from Save the Slope.
Seems to me in a city this big we have plenty of room for development without destroying older neighborhoods. 11217 is right regarding history. History is not only the Armory or the GAP arch. History is people- most of whom have never set foot in the Montauk Club. Preserving only the more spectacular buildings makes for a very shallow history.
I’m glad Tyburg and Benson aren’t on the LPC.
Luckily for us, we have experts there who know what they’re doing.
Park Sloper and 11217 — There is a BIG difference between ZONING and LANDMARKING. You can maintain a “low-rise streetscapes of Park Slope” without freezing the buildings in carbonite!! You want 4-story max buildings? Guess what? That’s what you already have by law!
“Benson, the low-rise streetscapes of Park Slope are, indeed, part of the historic architecture that makes the area so charming”
Hi Park Sloper.
I am not advocating “upzoning” Park Slope. The side streets of PS were down-zoned several years ago, and that is fine. If you look at the new developments in PS built since that time, they respect the scale of the neighborhood.
“You see where the more wealthy residents once lived and where the working class lived and you can paint a picture in your head of how the area came to be.”
I ask folks to seriously consider this sentiment. People like to throw the term “history” around. History is my hobby and as such,I kind of get upset at the way the word is thrown around here. Are we talking about tearing down the Arch in Grand Army Plaza, or the Armory on 7th Ave, or the Montauk Club over on 8th Ave???? NO – we’re talking about run-of-the-mill tenements built by the Boymelgreens of those days.
We already have a tenement museum. Do we need to set mediocre swaths of our city in amber to respect history????? Do we want to be a progressive, developing city, or live in Venice,Italy,which has morphed into a “historic Disneyland”.
I know fsrg. I said it more to be funny. Apparently that one sank. In any case, I think you know what I mean.
Oh 11217 – I seriously doubt that you’ll spot Boylemgreen counting any money – the lawyers are sucking that well dry quite effectively.
“My ire is caused by my feeling that this designation is driven more by an anti-development sentiment than an appreciation for “historic” architecture.”
EXACTLY – this has little to do with preservation [Although I am relieved to hear that the Novo will be protected and shall stand for all eternity]
and ParkSloper – the low rise streetscape WAS preserved through the use of zoning for the areas in question….I am not saying that their might not be a building or block or 2 within the boundaries being suggested but to declare the entire stretch from 4th Ave – the park Flatbush to 15th as worthy of the preservation of a “Historical District” is to destroy the meaning of a historical district a
i really hate the term “working class”
1.) most rich people work
2.) a large part of the “working class” do not work
it’s such a ridiculous made up euphemism for masked classism.
*rob*
Exactly, Park Sloper. You can walk around Park Slope (and many other beautiful historic areas) and the neighborhood tells you a story as you walk.
You see where the more wealthy residents once lived and where the working class lived and you can paint a picture in your head of how the area came to be.
The only story I see in my head when I walk down 4th Avenue is Boymelgreen sitting in a padded room counting money.