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May 24, 2007
Breaking News: City lied about UR houses
State Historic Preservation Office Not Contacted Regarding Eligibility to National Register of Historic Places
Council Member James Calls for Halt to any Seizure of Property
Queen's Crap has the goods on the latest missteps surrounding "Brooklyn's other land grab," Duffield St.
Council Member James has learned today that the New York State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) had never made a determination on the eligibility of the Duffield Street Houses to the National Register of Historic Places, the country's official list of historic properties. Not only has the agency not issued an official determination (according to their records), but agency staff was never consulted about the possibility of the buildings being eligible nor did it seem that the agency was ever consulted about the larger Downtown Brooklyn Plan.
The only contact that SHPO had with AKRF, the consulting firm who wrote the report on Duffield Street, regarding this project was an information request about whether the state agency had anything existing in their files about the Duffield Street houses. SHPO also reported that the agency was in recent receipt of a form letter from AKRF thanking them for their help in researching the properties & enclosing a copy of the Executive Summary of the Research Report.
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Posted by lumi at May 24, 2007 9:31 AM