Extension/Unification of the Fort Greene and Brooklyn Academy of Music Historic Districts

When the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designated two of Brooklyn’s Historic Districts in 1978, it was a glory for neighborhood advocates, as well as an abject disappointment. What had been proposed as one great Fort Greene Historic District was now disjoined. Members of both districts, to this day, work in tandem as part of the Fort Greene Association and feel that such a cleavage is a travesty.

With this early 21st Century’s swift, welcome rejuvenation of Downtown Brooklyn, the FGA believes it is essential now to embed an historic footstone from our ancestors’ path toward their hopes for our city’s future. It is also vital to correct the earlier landmarking mistake because many buildings in the swath of property between the two districts have an architectural quality identical to those that were designated – yet they could presently be ball-battered into oblivion. Through extension and unification into one important Fort Greene Historic District, we hope you will join us to conserve this qualitative history as our forebears meant it to be.

The Fort Greene Association received a call on July 19, 2007 from the Army National Guard. It turns out that the Guard was surprised to find out that they owned Admiral's Row in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That discovery has set back the transfer of the property to the city and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation by 12-18 months....