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Here’s an email we received on Friday afternoon along with the photo above:

We have lived across the street from 65 South Elliott place for the last two years. when we moved in we noticed that the building was abandoned. our neighbors told us that the owner had passed away about a year before we arrived and his family has not decided what to do with the building. about a year ago a homeless man started to take residency on its porch. he is a fixture in the neighborhood and seemed
harmless so people on the block seemed to turn a blind eye. This morning a bunch of contractors arrived and have been busy boarding the house with plywood. Can they do this without permission from the LPC?

We’ve got a query into LPC but on its surface this certainly looks like a no-no. GMAP P*Shark DOB


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  1. “It’s frightening to think people consider a homeless person sleeping on private property as an okay situation, and an okay idea for that person to interact with their children.” – as compared to whom? domiciled revered catholic priest?

  2. I think this house has an interesting history. The Chinese owner was not allowed to buy this house because he was Chinese. A Catholic nun – sister – purchased the house for him and then sold it back to him. I’d love to hear more about this man who, I think, moved to Brooklyn from the west coast and then eventually brought his family here. What was Fort Greene like back then?