Crown Heights, NY – Commission Votes to Expand Historic District

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    Crown Heights, NY – New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has unanimously approved adding 610 buildings to a designated historic district in Brooklyn.

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    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.


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    Shmuel52744
    Shmuel52744
    12 years ago

    The black did start buying houses until the 50’s and 60’s’; AP please check your facts