LPC Docket Number: 098343 Queens, Block: 8023, Lot: 1 300 Knollwood Ave – Douglaston Historic District A Colonial Revival Style ranch house designed by Carl Salminen and built in 1950. Application is to demolish the house and construct a new house. HDC Testimony HDC is sorry to see yet another mid-century Colonial Revival Style ranch […]
Located within the Park Slope Historic District: This 20th-century alteration by a well-known architect deserves the same protection the Commission regularly gives to similar historic alterations. There is no documentation (at least none provided) regarding the building’s appearance before the 1918 alterations took place, and it was not built as part of the row that […]
Hot sheets yield to hot pricesBy Yvonne Jurisfor The Brooklyn Paper It was Park Slope’s bed and breakfast — minus the breakfast — and now it’s being turned into luxury condos. Workers have begun renovations to the Lincoln Plaza Hotel — a large, 120-year-old Victorian mansion on Lincoln Place that spent most of the 1980s […]
From Aaron Brashear, Concerned Citizens of Greenwood [email protected] Greetings all, A day late, but never a dollar short, here’s my synopsis of the great meeting we had at the DOB on Monday 7/16/07 with Comm. Mossad, his 2 Deputy Commissioners, head plan examiner, both community affairs liaisons and lead inspector manager. From the community were […]
From Eric McClure, Campaign Coordinator [email protected]/Press Conference Against NY’s Rampant Abuse of Eminent DomainThis Wednesday afternoon, June 27th, at 1:00 p.m., property owners, advocates, elected officials and citizens will take to the steps of City Hall for a rally and press conference intended to raise awareness of the epidemic abuse of eminent domain in New […]
Clem Labine, Everett Ortner, Burnley Duke Dame, Kathy Evers, and Deirdre Lawrence invite you to… The “It’s Not A Done Deal” Benefit, Victorian Hous e & Book PartySpend a delightful afternoon with your neighbors and help preserve Brooklyn’s Character. A Fund-Raiser for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn and the legal expenses to block the Atlantic Yards […]
Clem Labine, Everett Ortner, Burnley Duke Dame, Kathy Evers, and Deirdre Lawrence invite you to: The “It’s Not A Done Deal” Benefit Victorian House & Book PartySpend a delightful afternoon with your neighbors and help preserve Brooklyn’s character. A Fund-Raiser for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklynand the legal expenses to block the Atlantic Yards mega-project Sunday, […]
From Eric McClure, Park Slope Neighbors, [email protected] Please Attend Thursday’s CB6 Meeting and Voice Support for 9th Street Traffic CalmingThis Thursday, Community Board 6’s Transportation Committee will meet to continue its discussion of the Department of Transportation’s well conceived plan for calming traffic on 9th Street from 3rd Avenue to Prospect Park West. We urge […]
From Michele de la Uz, Fifth Avenue Committee, [email protected] Thank you to everyone who attended last Wednesday’s marathon hearing at the City Planning Commission to testify in support of FAC’s proposed 575 5th Avenue project and thank you to all who submitted testimony as well! More than 70 supporters were in attendance, including a large […]
From Eric McClure, Campaign CoordinatorPark Slope Neighbors, [email protected] Dear Park Slope Neighbor, You did it! Thanks to the incredible, unified outpouring of community support for maintaining 6th and 7th Avenues as safe, neighborhood-friendly two-way streets, Community Board 6 on Wednesday night voted unanimously to reject the Department of Transportation’s proposal to convert the avenues to […]
