At 360 Smith, Writing's Still on the Wall
The latest protest art has gone up outside of 360 Smith Street, where Carroll Gardens residents who are against developer Billy Stein’s plans to build a 70-foot-high building have been rallying the troops with posters, drawings, chalkings, and newspaper clippings for a number of months now. As Gowanus Lounge notes, the newest call to arms…
The latest protest art has gone up outside of 360 Smith Street, where Carroll Gardens residents who are against developer Billy Stein’s plans to build a 70-foot-high building have been rallying the troops with posters, drawings, chalkings, and newspaper clippings for a number of months now. As Gowanus Lounge notes, the newest call to arms makes use of earthy, autumnal colors. GMAP
“Downzoning the neighborhood will ensure only the rich can afford to live in the neighborhood.”
I agree. The NIMBYs do not want to share the neighborhood. They are only interested in protecting their property values.
Besides, there are tall buidlings nearby. We are not talking about some quaint New England town, we are talking about Brooklyn. 70 feet ain’t nothing.
Polemicist go find yourself a pro big development blog and stop trolling around a blog dedicated to Brownstones and historic building in Brooklyn.
Downzoning the neighborhood will ensure only the rich can afford to live in the neighborhood.
The constitution demands equal protection under the law – once again the city council proves they are more concerned with catering to the wealthy in this city.
I think you mean we are closing the door on higher density. There are new neighbors all the time.
It is a top neighborhood 6:14, with excellent transportation connections and a vibrant street life. Land values through the roof, that qualifies the neighborhood for upzoning not down-zoning. Landmarking is just a red-hering for downzoning, keeping new people out and ever higher rents and prices. Very few of the blocks are of a sufficiently virgin historical character for landmarking to be otherwise. If there are such museum quality blocks maybe they should be preserved in tact and untouched, but when we do so we should all recognized that we are closing the door on new neighbors when we do.
This is a great area in Nyc Carroll Gardens is top tier location , and i believe that it’s time to Landmark the whole area of carroll Gardens and preserve the beauty of it.
5:08, I know. I (4:29) was chiming in on the Two Trees project as another, in my opinion, absurd restriction on what should be considered rather modestly scaled buildings.
It’s not on Atlantic Avenue, it’s on Smith Street at least 10 blocks from Atlantic Ave.
I find the arguments against 360 Smith St. overly dramatic, selfish, specious, and otherwise downright silly. There are plenty of issues facing the community for the activists to work on to improve quality of life in the neighborhood. 360 Smith will improve the area – not diminish it.