Society for Clinton Hill May General MeetingWednesday, May 16, 2007, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., (refreshments at 7:00, meeting 7:30)St. Luke’s Church, Parish House, Washington Ave. (DeKalb/Willoughby) AGENDA7:30 House Tour Report – Jim Barnes & Linda Scher. (A great success that broke all previous records!)7:35 Clinton Irving Jones: Brooklyn in 1900, by David Sokosh, Photographer Jones […]
From The Brooklyn Paper A ‘historic’ effortBy Dana Rubinstein Fort Greene and Clinton Hill activists are pulling out all the stops to protect the “character” of their rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. On top of a highly anticipated downzoning — now in its final stages of approval — the Fort Greene Association and the Society for Clinton […]
From Brownstoner: http://brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/03/clinton_hillfor.php#trackbackPosted by Brownstoner at March 20, 2007 8:57 AM City Planning chief Amanda Burden showed up at Polytechnic University last Wednesday night introduce some long-awaited details about the re-zoning of Clinton Hill and Fort Greene. Similar in concept to what happened in Park Slope, the plan is to down-zone the interior blocks while […]
Check out this interesting posting (and illustrative image) in Myrtle Minutes (the blog of the MARP; the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project) http://www.myrtleavenue.org/blog/index.cfm/2007/2/5/What-NOT-To-DO-Remove-Historic-Detail
From Peter Vitakis [email protected] Dear Fort Greene Neighbors and Friends: It takes just ONE MINUTE to send a letter to Albany today! That’s right, and it won’t even cost you the price of a stamp either. What it can do is possibly save my beloved Fort Greene and surrounding neighborhoods of Brooklyn from the controversially […]
