A local preservationist is lobbying to give a full pardon for the Admirals’ Row site.
But local officials continue to say that the 10 mansions along Flushing Avenue built between 1858 and 1901, which once housed naval officers and their families, needs to be razed for a supermarket.
Scott Witter, curator of Brooklyn’s Other Museum of Brooklyn, wrote Governor Eliot Spitzer recently asking for the mansions’ reprieve from the wrecking ball.
“I am but one American, yet Admiral’s Row is mine and belongs to every citizen of the United States of America,” wrote Witter.
U.S. naval history versus fresh produce – Many support new supermarket as wrecking ball looms for Admiral’s Row
By Stephen Witt from the Fort Greene Courier
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