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Fire on Park Place Classon? — Brooklynian

Fire on Park Place Classon?

holden
holden
edited November -1 in Crown Heights/Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Does anyone know anything about the fire on Park Place between Washington and Classon? The gothamist newsmap said "2nd alarm", but that's all I know. I'm just a little freaked out because it was almost next door. I woke up around 5 or 5:30 this morning because there was a lot of noise outside. Looked out the window and saw a bunch of firemen knocking down a fence out back, everything was red.

The good thing is, though, that the building was abandoned and looked like a piece of crap anyway.

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  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    in that case, i wouldn't rule out insurance fraud.
  • holden
    holden
    That was actually my first thought.
  • capt. planet
    capt. planet

    Subject: Re: Fire on Park Place & Classon?

    Holden wrote: Does anyone know anything about the fire on Park Place between Washington and Classon? The gothamist newsmap said "2nd alarm", but that's all I know. I'm just a little freaked out because it was almost next door. I woke up around 5 or 5:30 this morning because there was a lot of noise outside. Looked out the window and saw a bunch of firemen knocking down a fence out back, everything was red.

    The good thing is, though, that the building was abandoned and looked like a piece of crap anyway.
    Do you have the address? Was it close to Classon Avenue? The last residential building on the block before Classon has been "under construction" for years and even had had a fire a few years ago.
  • basketball fan
    basketball fan
    I just drove passed it ,not sure of the address but it was the abandon building
  • holden
    holden
    It was close to Classon, but it's not the last residential building. The number is probably like 530 or somewhere around there. I noticed the other day that there was actually a notice on the door saying the building was condemned, and yeah, it's been vacant for a while.
  • basketball fan
    basketball fan
    The house next to the building that was on fire is 517
  • capt. planet
    capt. planet
    519 Park Place is a vacant building that was deeded to a community group for re-development. Before the building could be finished, the mortgage holder, Local Initiatives Support Corp (LISC), called the loan and stopped construction. This was one of approx. 25 such properties to which this happened. I noticed on Propertyshark that titled passed in 2007 to another entity on 52nd Street called Heights Houses. Still no construction though, and now a fire. Welcome to the wonderful of non-profit development in NYC.

    This house by the way was slated to be an affordable townhouse, a four family to sell for less than $400,000.

    If this upsets you, the fact his building has been setting vacant for at least 8 years while LISC fumbled the ball and gentrification drives prices through the roof, the person to call is Denise Scott at 212 455-9800.
    She's the head of the NYC LISC office.

    LISC is a huge national organization based in Chicago but NYC is their largest office.

    Ironically, last I checked, Denise Scott actually lives in Crown Heights, on Albany Ave.

    You just can't make this stuff up. :)
  • ben
    ben
    I think it was actually the one next to 519 that burned, the yellow 3 story buildings that used to have storefronts on the first floor.

    They've been shells for a long time, little bits of work has been done here and there but nothing significant for years. A for sale sign went up 6 months or so back.
  • pitu
    pitu
    Capt. Planet wrote: 519 Park Place is a vacant building that was deeded to a community group for re-development. Before the building could be finished, the mortgage holder, Local Initiatives Support Corp (LISC), called the loan and stopped construction. This was one of approx. 25 such properties to which this happened. I noticed on Propertyshark that titled passed in 2007 to another entity on 52nd Street called Heights Houses. Still no construction though, and now a fire. Welcome to the wonderful of non-profit development in NYC.

    This house by the way was slated to be an affordable townhouse, a four family to sell for less than $400,000.

    If this upsets you, the fact his building has been setting vacant for at least 8 years while LISC fumbled the ball and gentrification drives prices through the roof, the person to call is Denise Scott at 212 455-9800.
    She's the head of the NYC LISC office.

    LISC is a huge national organization based in Chicago but NYC is their largest office.

    Ironically, last I checked, Denise Scott actually lives in Crown Heights, on Albany Ave.

    You just can't make this stuff up. :)
    dang. thx for keeping track and reporting back.

    Were the neighboring buildings effected by the fire?
  • wirenut
    wirenut
    The building that burned was where the FUNERAL HOME used to be. I think they closed about 2 years ago

    The vacant building had already been breached by homeless, so I would guess the fire was started by homeless occupants not for insurance fraud

    The fire walls between the properties seem to have limited the spead of the fire, but the building is a total loss. Now it's affordable.

    Someone, possibly HPD, started to demolish already
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    a little bird told me that it's being investigated as an arson.

    even if it gets blamed on those pesky homeless firebugs, i wouldn't rule out scape-goating.
  • holden
    holden
    The building is completely gone now. There is still a crane parked on the street, so I guess they'll be back tomorrow for more demolition, but there's no building left to speak of. Surrounding buildings are fine.

    Oooo, arson. Hmm.
  • xlizellx
    xlizellx
    i walked to the brooklyn flea market on sunday and when we were going there the building was still standing. when we walked back (stopping at the beer place on 5th in park slope on our way...kinda..) the building was completely gone. it went fast ... every time we walked past it, my fiance said we should try to buy it. guess that dream is over.
  • joshb
    joshb
    As far as I know, that was never a funeral home—at least in the last six years. There haven't been any businesses there at least since early 2003, when I moved in. They re-did the facade a few years back, then the buildings began their slow degradation. The building on the right was missing its roof long before the fire.
  • blazinh
    blazinh
    The building was a funeral years ago. homeless peopled took over the place so the owners were fighting with the city to have the homeless people removed the reason for the building being torn down was the homeless people that were there told the firemen that there were people in the basement so they demolished the building in hopes of finding the remains of those people. Nobody was in the basement though. Fired started because homeless people were tring to cook drugs on the stove.
  • james000
    james000

    ANYONE WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE FIRE OF 519 PARK PL...LET ME NO I USED TO LIVE THERE WHEN THE FIRE STARTED

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    Sure, James, tell us all about it....

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