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February 17, 2011
Review & Comment: The Heights and Change
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
by Henrik Krogius
Few things are as tedious as Henrik Krogius's complaining forcing us to complain about Henrik Krogius's complaining.
Now, as the Brooklyn Heights Association gets into its second century, and Heights residents are as likely to consider a restaurant on Smith Street in Boerum Hill as some place in Manhattan, the welcoming of change by Heights residents often outstrips that of the BHA. The association has for the most part – though not in every instance – become a clinger to the past. True, the appeal of the Heights rests very much on its historic Historic District status, preserving a scale and a respect for the past that speak of a reassuring continuity as against abrupt upheavals. But, in fighting change the Heights Association tends sometimes to worship sentimentalism to the disregard of current reality, and to intrude its oppositionism into neighboring areas and some not so neighboring, like Atlantic Yards.
NoLandGrab: We've never gotten why Krogius thinks it's not okay for the Brooklyn Heights Association to oppose something as clearly awful as Atlantic Yards, while thinking that his own hucksterism for the project, from his perch overlooking the Brooklyn Heights Esplanade, is just dandy.
Posted by eric at February 17, 2011 10:42 AM