NEWS: Report from the Crown Heights North meeting
From the Downtown Brooklyn Star:
http://www.brooklyndowntownstar.com/StoryDisplay.asp?NewsStoryID=3814&PID=4
By Nik Kovac
Last fiscal year, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) only created three new historic districts – two in Manhattan and one in the Bronx. Next month they are planning on calendaring a roughly eight-block area in northern Crown Heights.According to Mary Beth Betts, a researcher with the LPC, the so-called Crown Heights North District will include 472 structures, making it the largest historic district created in over a decade. It’s a squiggly shaped thing, bounded roughly by Pacific Street to the north, Prospect Place to the south, Kingston Avenue to the east, and Bedford Avenue to the west.”We’ve come a long way from four years ago,” announced State Senator Carl Andrews, who owns a home within the proposed district, “when the letter writing campaign started. Having been born and raised in Crown Heights, and still being here, we hope this designation will happen and will not take too long.”Andrews was speaking to a packed St. Gregory’s school auditorium on St. John’s Place last Wednesday evening, and he was doing so from a packed stage. Not only was Andrews joined by three of his politician colleagues – City Council members Al Vann and Letitia James and State Assemblyman Karim Cammera – but the LPC staff had also shown up in force.