Steve -
I rent - and have lived here for 40 years. My rent has been fixed
because of my age and the fact that when we moved in it was under rent
control and as such, given my age, my rent will never go up. Good thing
or I'd be in a homeless shelter or worse. For my landlord's sake, there
are two of 11 aparmtents getting full market rent, and he is a prety
good guy so I don't think this building would have gone, but you never
know.
so for me personally it is much more than simply keeping the whole
neighborhood from being overrun with luxury highrises and college dorms
and well keep my building from going co-op or being demolished.
And a few of you know first hand how lucky I am :-)
But, of course, anything can be messed up by committees.
ann
On 10/10/2012 15:13, steve harley wrote:
on 2012-10-10 9:55 Ann Sanfedele wrote
This was in todays NY times (at least the online version)
I'm right in the middle of the area (7th st between 1st and 2nd ave)
breathing a sigh of relief
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/landmarks-commission-approves-east-village-historic-district/
hmmm … owning a house in a landmark district in Denver, and having a
sense for architecture, i have a very mixed opinion of enforced historic
preservation; it has been very messy in my neighborhood, and i live in
fear, should i ever have the money to do major work on my house, of the
edicts of Landmark Preservation Commission; meanwhile many of my
neighbors find ways to skirt the regulations (mostly by failing to pull
permits) and cause obvious harm to the historic fabric
i think strict historic preservation should be used very selectively,
but i also wish people in general had more consciousness of architecture
and urban design
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