NEWS: Senator Street in Bay Ridge Tries Landmark Bid
Protection sought for Ridge’s only full block of brownstones
By Matthew Lysiak
for The Brooklyn Papers
Little pink houses for you and me — but not for Senator Street.
The city Landmarks Preservation Commission is considering a request by Community Board 10 to create a historic district on Senator Street between Third and Fourth avenues.
“This is the only street in Bay Ridge with brownstones on both sides,” Eric Rouda, president of Senator Street’s 300 Block Association, told CB10 on Monday. “We have to preserve what I believe to be one of the most beautiful blocks in Brooklyn.”
The board later voted unanimously to send a letter of support to the LPC, which will take up the matter.
The block is already on the National Registry of Historic Places, but residents said such status would not prevent homeowners from making changes that would supposedly distract from the famed brownstones.
Along a similar stretch of brownstones in Park Slope, for example, one resident painted his house bright pink.
That wouldn’t wash on Senator Street, Rouda said.
“Someone with no soul could do that” without city landmarking, he said.