Brooklyn Unite! Save the Broken Angel

OK, I hear you. "Raze" was a little alarmist. But this is the quote from the Daily News:

"They said they were going to demolish anything they deemed to be structurally unsafe," said Wood, who wants to get nonprofit status for the building and turn it into a museum and art school. "It's all incredibly disheartening." (Jotham Sederstrom, "Angel Owner Won't Quit," NY Daily News, 10/18/06).

And we all recall this line:

“The building is open to the elements, the floors are not complete and there aren’t stairways, just planks in some places,” said Buildings spokesman Jennifer Givner. “There are also two illegal additions. One is a 50-foot extension above the roofline and another is a 15-foot horizontal extension. The building is a safety hazard for him and for the public.” (Robin Pogrebin, "Brooklyn Art House is Ruled Hazardous," NYT, 10/18/06).

So take that as you will, but I read it as saying there's a serious chance the building won't persist in its current form without intervention.

Update Broken Angel 10/29/06
On 10/10/06 Broken Angel suffered minimal damage from a fire at the top of the structure. The cause of the fire is unknown and still under investigation. Broken Angel has been an active project of construction by my family beginning in 1979. Major construction was finished in 2002, and all work done thereafter has been for the purpose of maintaining the building. The fire brought the attention of the Department of Buildings (DOB), previous interactions had occurred in 1986, and 2002 with no action taken against the building. During the course of building and maintaining the structure there have been no accidents or complaints. Compared with most modern construction projects, such as the Time Warner building in NYC, this is an excellent record. It raises questions as to why large developers are allowed to continue construction when they pose a risk to the community, whereas Broken Angel, which has no history of construction problems, has been singled out as a danger. My mother and father, the legal guardians and owners of Broken Angel were threatened with eviction for 6 days. On the 7th day they were vacated by the police without a court order or engineer’s report. We question the necessity and the humanity of this action. They were told that this was done for their safety; however action was taken prior to any inspection of the interior of the building by an engineer. Furthermore, we were told that the building would be demolished in 3 weeks if an architect did not submit plans to bring it to code. We have been compliant with this request. We are thankful to the firm of Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture http://www.jpda.net/news.html for all of their help and support. On Thursday (10/26/06) an engineer from the DOB toured the structure, and the next day the DOB released a different story. A DOB spokesperson recently commented to the Daily News (10/27/06) that any demolition orders, if warranted will take approximately 3 months to begin.
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