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A History of Preservation, Chapter Three

By Donald Brennan | Published: January 4, 2011
Our first and second installments in the history of preservation series, written by Suzanne Spellen (aka “Montrose Morris” in the blogosphere) for MyHome, Brooklyn and Brennan Realty Services, looked at the birth of the movement in the United States and later in Brooklyn. In Chapter Three, Brooklyn Heights gets the first historic district! Download the [...]
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Getting Into the Book Biz

By Lisa S. Davis | Published: October 13, 2010
Last week, our partner site Brennan Realty Services proudly announced it would join the Brooklyn Heights Association in co-sponsoring Battling for Brooklyn Heights: The Fight for New York’s First Historic District by Martin L. Schneider. The book provides an insider’s look into how the citizens of Brooklyn Heights fought Robert Moses and other interests to [...]
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A History of Preservation, Chapter Two

By Donald Brennan | Published: September 1, 2010
Our first installment in the history of preservation series, written by Suzanne Spellen (aka “Montrose Morris” in the blogosphere) for MyHome, Brooklyn, looked at the birth of the movement in the United States. In Chapter Two: Brooklyn gets busy! To download the pdf, click here, or read more below. Preservation Primer, Part 2: The Fight [...]
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A History of Preservation, Chapter One

By Donald Brennan | Published: August 19, 2010
Architectural writer Montrose Morris has written for us a history of the preservation movement in the United States, and a primer on landmarking here in Brooklyn. You can download the entire first installment here, or browse below. Check back soon for the next chapter. A Preservation Primer by Montrose Morris Chapter One: A Movement Begins [...]
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LPC Looks at Bed-Stuy

By Donald Brennan | Published: July 28, 2010
The proposed expansion of the Carroll Gardens historic district has garnered a lot of attention lately, in part because the struggle has been depicted as low-income old-timers versus high-income newcomers, not to mention developers against residents. Old rumors and misinformation have been re-circulated in the process, drudging up already discounted ideas: that those who live [...]
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Brooklyn Heights’ History: The Video

By Donald Brennan | Published: April 7, 2010
Taking a cue from Ken Burns, Martin L Schneider and Karl Junkersfeld produced this video, “Brooklyn Is My Neighborhood/The Story of New York’s First Historic District” to animate the rise–and the struggle against the fall–of Brooklyn Heights. The video is a teaser for Schneider’s 15,000-word article “Battling for Brooklyn Heights/1958-1965,” published in the Brooklyn Heights [...]
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Forever Brooklyn

By Donald Brennan | Published: November 10, 2009
How the Real Brooklyn Fares Better in a Depressed Market Real Estate in the middle of this decade was all about gambling, making more and bigger buildings on the assumption that there would always be bodies to fill them. In Brooklyn, that gamble came in the form of Manhattan-style skyscrapers dotting the edges of established [...]
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