AP
Crown Heights, NY – New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has unanimously approved adding 610 buildings to a designated historic district in Brooklyn.
The row houses, freestanding houses and apartment buildings are adjacent to 472 other Crown Heights buildings that received landmark status in 2007. All were built between the 1870s and the 1920s.
Chairman Robert Tierney called the neighborhood “an exquisite mosaic of remarkably well preserved examples of architectural styles and building types.”
The commission also scheduled public hearings on a plan to add a third section of 640 buildings to the Crown Heights historic district.
Area resident Deborah Young created the Crown Heights North Association to help generate interest in landmarking in the community and to educate her neighbors on the benefits of a historic district, which she says include increased property values and protection from the kind of over-development happening elsewhere in Brooklyn.
According to the Crown Heights North Association, Crown Heights was one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Brooklyn in the late 19th century. Eastern Parkway was lined with opulent mansions that were eventually torn down and replaced with townhouses. African American and Caribbean families began to buy homes in the area in the 1920s, even as the neighborhood became home to the Orthodox Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch movement and several Yeshiva schools.
Tuesday’s vote must be approved by the City Council.
If the historic preservation law has passed in crown heights it may be too late to start building a new big house. Now when you have architectural plans you will need to run it by the Historic preservation for approval before the city gives final approval. You may be limited to size , outside facade and color would need to match other old houses, windows would have to look like the original to the house…etc.
This is bad for all people living in CH, we’ve got to oppose this
i think for acomunity its bad!
Will there be an official list of which particular houses are deemed Heritage?
does this mean more value to houses, or does it mean that it will now be more difficult to build and extend in CH?
Try to make a bigger house before sooner, after your house or neighbors house is a landmark it’s more challenging.