Fighting Words in Cobble Hill Landmarks Dispute
Over in Cobble Hill, Denise Taormina, the third-generation owner of a local shop, is locking horns with the Landmarks Preservation Commission over whether the shop may keep its standard-issue rollup gates. The offending gates were installed by her grandparents in the early 1980s as a safety precaution after the store was robbed. Taormina claims that…
Over in Cobble Hill, Denise Taormina, the third-generation owner of a local shop, is locking horns with the Landmarks Preservation Commission over whether the shop may keep its standard-issue rollup gates. The offending gates were installed by her grandparents in the early 1980s as a safety precaution after the store was robbed. Taormina claims that coming up with the $10,000 to install compliant custom gates would bankrupt her business and besides, she says, there are hundreds of similar gates in the nabe. She also placed the whole disgreement in historical context:
“[Landmarks Preservation Commission] said there were no gates in the 1850s,” said Taormina, who has run Little Luna Vintage Store in the Kane St. storefront for more than 10 years. “I laughed and told them there were no crackheads either.”
Fighting to Keep Rollup Gates[NY Daily News]
Crackheads are alive and well in CobbleHill. Go out and take a walk around the ‘hood at 3am and see for yourself…if you dare. Just ask the guy who was robbed by a machete-wielding crackhead a few doors down from Taormina’s store on May 2nd. The guy was caught a few blocks away. Oh, and it was in the Post.
I live right around the corner from Little Luna and have made numerous purchases at the store. Denise is a great part of the neighborhood and I would be loathe to see her go. That said, the location of her shop (one block off of the BQE) is safe, however, without the metal grates on her window’s, I’m certain they’d eventually go the way of many of the other uncovered windows in this area of Cobble Hill, broken. There’s a group of young men who habitually break into cars by smashing the windows. Would her windows be far behind? During the summer, there’s so much broken glass on my street, it looks like a disco.
Crack is dead. Heroin and crystal meth are the new thing. Over the years we’ve all learned how to identify a crackhead. But do you know how to spot the dopeheads and crystal tweakers? Hint.. For the most part, they look nothing like your ‘typical’ crackhead.
nope…no crackheads here in cobble hill…are there really that many left in NYC in general?
Does this mean Landmarks is going to start forcing homeowners to remove their ground level and parlor floor window bars. I’m pretty sure they didnt have bars on the window in pre1900 either.
Are there really many crackheads in Cobble Hill? We thought they were all on our block in Clinton Hill…