Getting Landmarks Designation as a Historic District

rkummert · January 2006

I would like to know if anyone has made a request for evaluation with the Landmarks Preservation Commission for Prospect Heights. I think we would have a good shot since the housing stock is comparable to that in the Park Slope Historic District.

I have heard rumors that someone is looking to build 3 or 4 storys on top of a brownstone in the neighborhood and I can only imagine what will begin happening to the neighborhood once the arena (I HOPE NOT) comes to town with all of the large apartment buildings.

If no one has done so or if someone has already submitted, I would certainly be interested in being involved to preserve the character of our neighborhood.

sebhavers · January 2006

Subject: Re: Getting Landmarks Designation as a Historic District

rkummert wrote: I would like to know if anyone has made a request for evaluation with the Landmarks Preservation Commission for Prospect Heights. I think we would have a good shot since the housing stock is comparable to that in the Park Slope Historic District.

If no one has done so or if someone has already submitted, I would certainly be interested in being involved to preserve the character of our neighborhood.

I have submitted a few individual RFE's for buildings in prospect heights but not a district request. I work for a community-oriented preservation group and so am happy to help with this in any way. especially since down by me at washington between bergen and st. marks, there isn't anything to save.

sje · January 2006

Hey Seb, you're on my block! I've always referred to our particular section of Washington as the a**hole of Washington Ave. Were you around this summer during the extremely loud reggae parties at the aluminum hut car repair place?

sebhavers · January 2006

sje wrote: Hey Seb, you're on my block! I've always referred to our particular section of Washington as the a**hole of Washington Ave. Were you around this summer during the extremely loud reggae parties at the aluminum hut car repair place?

yes, but since my apartment faces the large parking lot on st. marks, i missed all the noise! (famous last words). i wonder if that place or 666 washington are going to sell b/c the real estate is getting so valuable?

sje · January 2006

sebhavers wrote: yes, but since my apartment faces the large parking lot on st. marks, i missed all the noise! (famous last words). i wonder if that place or 666 washington are going to sell b/c the real estate is getting so valuable?

You missed it? Lucky, Lucky. It was appallingly loud, and the party got started and ran very late a few times every week. Unfortunately, my bedroom window faces them.

What's 666, the other car repair place, the really big one? I spoke to the owner of that lot in the summer, we watched the "prison cell condos" being built there {really small rooms, at least from the street}, and he said he has no intention of going anywhere, any time soon. We'll see, I guess.

muteflute · January 2006

sje wrote: [quote=sebhavers]yes, but since my apartment faces the large parking lot on st. marks, i missed all the noise! (famous last words). i wonder if that place or 666 washington are going to sell b/c the real estate is getting so valuable?

You missed it? Lucky, Lucky. It was appallingly loud, and the party got started and ran very late a few times every week. Unfortunately, my bedroom window faces them.

What's 666, the other car repair place, the really big one? I spoke to the owner of that lot in the summer, we watched the "prison cell condos" being built there {really small rooms, at least from the street}, and he said he has no intention of going anywhere, any time soon. We'll see, I guess.

I'm right down the street from y'all, right at the corner of Dean. We get loud reggae parties, too, but it seems only during the summer. The past few months haven't been so bad....

smokin joe · January 2006

ahem. . . any chance of steering this thread back to getting landmark status for ph?

there's a gut reno on sterling bet. wash and underhill that seems to have added a story. i'd love to find a way to limit this sort of thing and preserve the brownstones we have.

sebhavers, you have some idea of how to get the ball rolling?

sje · January 2006

When the arena scam was first announced, what 2 -3 years ago now, I vaguely remember a group of PHers tried to get landmark status, or researched it then, and got rebuffed. You might want to talk to thhe Hagan sisters, I'm sure they remember who pursued it, and the results. Not saying you shouldn't go for it, but you may have a hard time.

sebhavers · January 2006

sje wrote: When the arena scam was first announced, what 2 -3 years ago now, I vaguely remember a group of PHers tried to get landmark status, or researched it then, and got rebuffed. You might want to talk to thhe Hagan sisters, I'm sure they remember who pursued it, and the results. Not saying you shouldn't go for it, but you may have a hard time.

the Landmarks Preservation Commission is very overburdened these days and having them take an interest in designating a new neighborhood takes a LOT of community pressure and time. 10 people are not going to do it. One of the most recent neighborhoods to be designated, Fieldston in The Bronx, was in the works for like 5 years, which is not unusual.

How do we contact these Hagan sisters?

sterling2000 · January 2006

The Historics Districts Council is having their annual conference March 3-5 with the theme "Place, race, money & art: the economics and demographics of historic preservation"

This would be a good networking event for people new (or old) to the neighborhood preservation/landmarking game. There's a lot of relevant presentations about the kind of pressures we're feeling in PH, plus there's a walking tour of Crown Heights.

Check the info on the link here, and maybe I'll see some of you there!

http://www.hdc.org/confsched06.htm

hal · January 2006

This might be helpful:

Borough Panel Series: Brooklyn

Tuesday, February 21, 2006
NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION IN BROOKLYN:PRESERVING THE PAST, PLANNING THE FUTURE
6:00-7:30pm, Brooklyn School of Music
126 Saint Felix Street, Brooklyn

Hear directly from the City agencies responsible for preserving neighborhood
character, including the City Planning Commission and the Landmarks
Preservation Commission, on how the historic district designation and the
preservation process works. Learn from neighborhood activists in Brooklyn about different ways of preserving community character and historic resources; from landmark designation to rezoning initiatives to public awareness campaigns.
This event is FREE to the public and is being co-sponsored by the
<http://www.historicfortgreene.org/>; Fort Greene Association.
The Historic Districts Council's Borough Panel Series is supported in part
by Independence Community Foundation, The New York Community Trust and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

sebhavers · January 2006

sterling2000 wrote: The Historics Districts Council is having their annual conference March 3-5 with the theme "Place, race, money & art: the economics and demographics of historic preservation"

This would be a good networking event for people new (or old) to the neighborhood preservation/landmarking game. There's a lot of relevant presentations about the kind of pressures we're feeling in PH, plus there's a walking tour of Crown Heights.

Check the info on the link here, and maybe I'll see some of you there!

http://www.hdc.org/confsched06.htm

hahaha. i actually work for the historic districts council, but i swear i did not ask Hal or Sterling 2000 to post those for me (I've been on this board far before I joined HDC). Anyway, it would indeed be great to see some other Prospect Heights people there. Any questions about these events or the landmarks process i am happy to answer.

So far, we have had some success in Crown Heights North and hope to see them move forward with landmarking soon.

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