Unprotected Sunset Park Being Destroyed Bit by Bit
The website Cititour has an advocacy post about the destruction of brownstones in Sunset Park. The item focuses on the house above, on 54th Street and 6th Avenue, part of “a row of turn-of-the-century brownstones with stained glass windows and fireplaces [that] are being destroyed bit by bit.” The blog writer argues: Witnessing this destruction…
The website Cititour has an advocacy post about the destruction of brownstones in Sunset Park. The item focuses on the house above, on 54th Street and 6th Avenue, part of “a row of turn-of-the-century brownstones with stained glass windows and fireplaces [that] are being destroyed bit by bit.” The blog writer argues:
Witnessing this destruction should make the case for giving the area landmark status before it’s too late. The neighborhood has been seeing an all-out assault on row houses in recent months as real estate prices remain fairly high. Some are being torn down to make room for condos, others are having additional floors added, and still other two-family homes are being converted into 4-families, again with the city’s blessing, and a total disregard to the neighborhood. It’s a crying shame.
While we don’t doubt that new construction in Sunset Park is felling older buildings, we’re unaware of whether there is an organized movement afoot to landmark the area. Can Sunset Park readers fill us in?
A Brownstone Dies In Brooklyn [Cititour]
Photos from Cititour.
Remodel? You mean demolish?
“Considering that housing is in such short supply, I fail to see why any of this is bad news.”
Nope asshole, Greed is in vogue! There are plenty of apartments but, we need to build more. I will be very happy when this shit fucking crashes!
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Someday this war is gonna end….
Context is unnecessary when you’re a NIMBY complaining about change.
Sunset Park is the largest Federal Historic Housing District in the country, which amounts to no protection.
There is an effort to rezone the community. Don’t know what’s happening with that lately.
does anybody know what this place looked like before it was gutted? maybe it was beyond repair? i need context!
“Isn’t this the United States? Don’t homeowners have rights?”
Reading this blog, sometimes I wonder. It seems to me that Brownstoner and his ilk would like us to to follow the Soviet model, with every homeowner requiring permission from the collective to change so much as a porch light on his own property.
Posts like this one make me want to buy a block in Sunset Park and hire Scarano to design a huge residential/retail complex, just out of spite.
“Some are being torn down to make room for condos, others are having additional floors added, and still other two-family homes are being converted into 4-families”
Considering that housing is in such short supply, I fail to see why any of this is bad news.
I agree that these renovations are unattractive, but two brownstones does not equal an “all-out assault”. The author mentions other homes, but neglects to provide proof.
10:25, most posters on this board care only about property rights when protesting the use of eminent domain for AY. When it comes to rent control or landmark districts, property rights suddenly fly out the window.
I need to go walk around over there. Way nicer looking than the area in the 40’s