Events: DOB Task Force, Wallabout Historic Area
Tonight: The Historic Wallabout Association, a consortium of block associations in the Wallabout area between Myrtle Avenue and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership will be hosting a community meeting to provide updates on progress toward creating a New York City Landmark District in the Wallabout neighborhood, as well as New…
Tonight: The Historic Wallabout Association, a consortium of block associations in the Wallabout area between Myrtle Avenue and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership will be hosting a community meeting to provide updates on progress toward creating a New York City Landmark District in the Wallabout neighborhood, as well as New York State and National Register status. In addition, there will be a presentation by the New York Landmarks Conservancy to Discuss its Low-Interest Loan Fund for Façade Preservation Projects. Thursday, October 19th, 6:30pm 8:30pm, Benjamin Banneker Academy, 77 Clinton Avenue (Myrtle/Park).
Monday: The Brooklyn session of the City Council’s Buildings Department Task Force will be held on Monday, October 23 at 7PM at PS 207 at 4011 Fillmore Street between Kimball and Coleman Streets in the Madison Marine area. No pre-registration is needed to speak–just attend with two copies of your statement and sign up. Since the session ends at 9PM, many will not get a chance and statements will be limited to three minutes.
Map of Wallabout Bay from Fortgreenepark.org.
What a sophisticated comment! I guess all those non-white residents who fought for landmarking Fort Greene and other nabes 30 years ago and who fight for landmarking Crown Heights today are wrong?
Much of the current landmarking is a REACTION to the yuppies. People want to landmark so developers can’t come in and build big huge glass condos. And who’s to say yuppies aren’t black?
By your rationale, should we leave the “shittiest neighborhoods” shitty just so they don’t become white? Again, by your rationale, that implies that people of color like to live in shitty neighborhoods.
Also, for your info, residents in the Wallabout neighborhood tried to get landmarked in the ’70s along with FG and CH, but were cut out. It’s not like they just “discovered” their not shitty neighborhood. The recent push is a reaction to new condos being built, which are being built most definitely not for the current residents.
Sigh. Why not just fucking landmark all of Brooklyn, so at least yuppies will have less things to bitch over. Face it, even the shittiest neighborhoods are going to be colonized and “discovered” eventually. Get it over with, and maybe make a special landmark status, where the racial makeup of the neighborhood has to be the same as the houses were built for: all white. I’m sure landmark advocates would like that even more.
We live in the proposed Wallabout neighborhood and i have a question: for those that know, is it good to be landmarked? anyone have any pro and con thoughts?