From the Brooklyn Eagle (which has a very strict policy about cross-posting so I’ll excerpt): Brooklyn Broadside: Landmarks Needs Special Unit To Deal With Industrial Sites by Dennis Holt ([email protected]), published online 06-19-2007 BROOKLYN — There is an Endangered Species Act which, fortunately, has the force of law. There is also an Endangered Places declaration […]
June 14, 2007Brooklyn Waterfront Called Endangered Site By ROBIN POGREBIN Correction Appended The mighty Monitor, the ironclad Civil War ship, was built on Greenpoint’s gritty waterfront. The Graving Dock at the Todd Shipyards in Red Hook was the terminal for ships traveling from the Erie Canal. The Old Dutch Mustard Company in Williamsburg churned out […]
From Flatbush Life 06/14/2007A landmark day for two – Nabes move closer to special historic designationBy Helen Klein Residents of the two neighborhoods, part of Victorian Flatbush, received letters earlier this month from the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), announcing that a hearing on the designation of the two adjoining communities as a landmark district would […]
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 […]
From Develop Don”t Destroy News release Documents Show More Than Half of the Financing for Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards Project Is Government BackedProject Seeks At Least $1.4 Billion in Tax-Exempt Housing Bonds Gobbling Up Available Housing Funds From All Over New York City BROOKLYN, NY— Atlantic Yards has always been sold as basically a […]
At Crossroads of Big Development, Vinegar Hill PerseveresBY KATE GOODLOE – Special to the SunMay 31, 2007URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/55546 With development in DUMBO encroaching their neighborhood from the west and a busier Brooklyn Navy Yards emerging to their east, residents of Brooklyn’s quaint Vinegar Hill are trying hard to preserve the sleepy atmosphere of their eight-block […]
From Courier-Life: 05/26/2007New Bklyn nabe on city’s rezoning radar – Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association meets with City Planning officialsBy Joe Maniscalco Members of the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association (CGNA) aren’t claiming victory in their battle to rezone their community after a meeting with City Planning last week, but they are guardedly optimistic about their prospects […]
From The Gowanus Louge: http://gowanuslounge.blogspot.com/ The Don’t Demo Domino Concert in Grand Ferry Park in Williamsburg sponsored by the Waterfront Preservation Alliance of Greenpoint and Williamsburg drew hundreds of people yesterday, despite on-and-off rain that increased as the afternoon went on. Hundreds of signatures were collected on petitions calling for the landmarking of the buildings […]
From Courier Life Publications05/26/2007Historian gives credence to underground Railroad claimsBy Stephen Witt A key city historian offered his views last week on the Duffield Street abolitionist houses and appears to have landed on the side of preservationists. Christopher Moore, a curator at Harlem’s Schomburg Center, and regarded as one of the city’s foremost African-American historians, […]
From Curbed.
