A View to be Killed
Preservationists and neighbors of Green-Wood Cemetary are up in arms over a developer’s proposal to build a 70-foot-tall condominium that would obscure the views of one of the cemetary’s most important residents. Located on Battle Hill, the cemetary’s high point, the bronze statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, has had a clear view…
Preservationists and neighbors of Green-Wood Cemetary are up in arms over a developer’s proposal to build a 70-foot-tall condominium that would obscure the views of one of the cemetary’s most important residents. Located on Battle Hill, the cemetary’s high point, the bronze statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, has had a clear view to the Statue of Liberty since 1920, when she was commissioned by a local history buff to commemorate the Revolutionary War Battle of Long Island. The Green-Wood neighborhood to the south has recently started to attract the attention real estate developers looking for more hospitable zoning than neighboring Park Slope offers. Last month, Community Board 7 unanimously passed a resolution supporting the preservation of the cemetery’s historic views. The City Planning Department is conducting a rezoning study that could be ready by the end of the summer, but the Times reports that it might take an additional six months or longer to win ultimate approval from the City Council.
Notice: At 1 pm, Sunday, April 10, the South South Slope Community Group, joined by Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights, will march from 15th Street and 7th Avenue to Battle Hill in Green-Wood Cemetery. Marchers will enter the cemetery at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue. The march will end atop Battle Hill.
Raise a Hand if You Like the View [NY Times]
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We have been looking for an apartment for over a year and half and have recently found a place in a new condo in Greenwood Heights. Although, I agree with keeping a neighbourhood to it’s roots, New York, Brooklyn included, has a SPACE problem… there simply is not enough. There are a plethora of run-down and ill-used spaces in Greenwood Heights and developers buying them up to create affordable (and I speak from experience here) housing is completely ok in my book.
I can guarentee that if the people involved in the anti-housing effort were looking for a home in todays markets they would be on the other side of the fence saying build more, build more. Selfish bastards!
Dead people don’t appreciate views.
I’ve spent some time at the cemetary and was stunned by the natural beauty of the place. I never noticed the views out to New York Harbor, I was too busy looking at the achitecture and necrolithology of the monuments in the beautiful parklike setting.
If anyone’s interested in reading more about the anti-condo efforts — or ranting against them — there’s a website at
http://www.southsouthslope.com/
altho I might suggest that if you want to keep out the condo towers, you might want to start by not referring to your neighborhood as “South South Slope.” It implies that the neighborhood is part of Park Slope, when most of it is outside even the most generous definition. I mean, don’t you think that the condo developer is going to use exactly that kind of misleading, real-estate-ese name to sell its condos to people?
isn’t it a condo and not affordable housing? it’s about responsible construction.
um, it’s more about obstructing the views for the city’s most important burial grounds…not the statue. It’s about preserving the historical beauty of our city’s momuments.