Comments on: Bed-Stuy Blocks Get Landmark Status Against Frum Families https://anash.org/brooklyn-blocks-get-landmark-status-against-frum-activists-will/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brooklyn-blocks-get-landmark-status-against-frum-activists-will News, Views, Inspiration Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:36:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Concerned neighbor https://anash.org/brooklyn-blocks-get-landmark-status-against-frum-activists-will/#comment-40128 Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:36:52 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=814067#comment-40128 In reply to Neighborhood Character.

You obviously do not live in neighborhood.
The neighbors primary goal is to harass the Satmar Jews. They bring trash to their doors. They scream anti-Semitic insults. The government gathers and plans ways “to get them.” They rather have their properties go down in value tremendously with a landmarking district than have their Jewish neighbors keep expanding their homes. Their hatred for the Jews outweighs their pocketbooks. Welcome to 1939 in 2024. Be afraid.

]]> By: Neighborhood Character https://anash.org/brooklyn-blocks-get-landmark-status-against-frum-activists-will/#comment-40062 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 18:17:50 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=814067#comment-40062 Eric Adams “City of Yes” is a pending city-wide zoning proposal that will increase the livable space (FAR) in buildings, which can result in incentivizing tear downs to build condos/co-ops, and making backyard sheds into ADU (accessory dwelling units). The intent of the landmark status may have been more to retain the esthetic architectural quality of the neighborhood, backyard sunlight and a pleasant breeze, rather than animosity towards Frum Jews. I think the homeowners wishing to retain neighborhood character would have done the same if the new owners were Spanish or Muslim. While a few individual homeowners may be happy with getting more space, many other homeowners may be concerned with homeowners being replaced by renters and out of scale chopped up buildings, so that’s why they probably landmarked. That’s not to say that those who live on the block don’t want Williamsburg Jews spilling into their neighborhood, but you just don’t know that.

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