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Lefferts Manor Echo Winter 2013 efferts r L ManoEECC HOHO { } EC HO s e t a i c o s s A n Lincoln Road’s $50 Million Mixed-Use, o s r e d n A Mid-Rise Project Is Back on Track by Jeanne Baron live right there you might notice, it’ll be busier.” he sprawling , -square-foot, L-shaped lot that The plan calls for a mix of studios as well as one- and T shoulders up to the subway station at Lincoln Road two-bedroom apartments. Anderson points out that the will soon be one of the largest mixed-use develop - exterior will be made of thin panels of a composite prod - ments to come to Prospect Lefferts Gardens in years. uct that fuses glass fiber with concrete or plastic cement, It’s a million project that resurrects in part a small - and adds structural strength to the building. er version of what had been envisioned as a -story res - The development features two levels of parking garage, idential glass tower before being derailed by the financial a gym, laundry room, roof deck, café, two courtyards, and collapse of the Great Recession in . two entrance s— one on Lincoln and another at Flatbush In the newest incarnation, the project unfolds as and Lefferts Avenues. units of residential rentals, two retail spaces and one giant “In years on the board, it’s the most ambitious proj - space exclusively available to community organizations ect I’ve seen,” Cetera beams. “It could enliven the com - such as churches, doctors’ offices, schools, non-profits and munity and revitalize the dead-end streets in that area.” An artist’s rendering of the Lincoln Road side of a daytime social center for seniors. The longtime Brooklyn designer says he’s especially the proposed structure. The builder behind the nine-story complex is Tom happy about the , square feet of community space. Anderson, the founder of Anderson Associates. The com - “We think it’s a great space,” he says. “It’s full of light and Echo Analysis BY MILFORD PREWITT pany has been preserving and changing the building land - faces the tracks. We’d love to see it used for a pre-school scape of Brooklyn for a quarter of a centur y— not always or day care.” 71st Precinct Earns a C+ on without controversy. This project is receiving a much warmer welcome than Anderson’s -story condominium development on the previous proposal to build a -story glass condo - Stop-and-Frisk Record in 20 11 Union Street near Grand Army Plaza faced down a minium tower in the same location. That project met with Compared to their comrades at the vast majority of the city’s police stations, the lawsuit, according to a New York Times article from Sep- heated criticism from neighbors who complained that it officers at the 71st Precinct were exemplary models of civility and restraint in 2011 tember of that year. Neighbors alleged the luxury hi-rise was out of character with the neighborhood’s prevailing in using force in a “stop-and-frisk.” violated historic preservation standards, and they won their architectural style. Others supported the project, hoping According to a study by the New York Civil Liberties Union, officers from the first round in court. Eventually, Anderson won on appeal. that it would attract more mainstream retail options and 71st used force 581 times out of more than 6,000 stop-and-frisks in 2011, ranking But the architect-turned-developer says he prizes a bank to the neighborhood. it the 62nd lowest on a list of 76 (the number of police precincts in the city) to use design as much as the bottom line, and his projects have But this project is getting better reviews. A post at force. been lauded in the press as much as criticized. He has Curbed.com spotlights the low rise of the building and By contrast, the 44th Pct .—which covers a densely populated working-class rehabilitated historically significant buildings in Cobble the affordable housing it will add to the local market. community in the western Bronx that includes Yankee Stadium, the borough’s Hill, Prospect Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, to name Anderson Associates has applied for funding through courthouses, government center and a large expanse of the Grand Concourse— a few, and brought to the Brooklyn market both afford - a city program of the Housing Development Corpor- used force 8,413 times during a stop-and-frisk last year, putting it first among all able and luxury housing. ation, or HDC. Its New Housing Opportunities Program police precincts. This time around, Anderson’s development on Lincoln requires percent of the housing be affordable to low- But the 71st’s enviable rank on restraint of force is mitigated in an otherwise Road won praise from Community Board member income families. The rest of units must be affordable to mediocre report card in which the precinct, like the vast majority of the New York City Police Department, is seen as quick to use race and youth as a pretext for Michael Cetera, himself an architect. middle-income families, which will result in rents about conducting a stop-and-frisk. “Most developers come with a box,” Cetera says. “They percent below market value. As a percentage of total precinct stops in 2011, the 71st came in at 11th place, pull a model out of their desk drawer. But in this case, “We are several small steps away from the end of the using race in 9 out of 10 stop-and-frisks—about equal to the NYPD as a whole. they’ve been very creative.” approval process,” Anderson explains. “ We are percent NYCLU reported that what is most worrisome about the study is that the Cetera is both impressed and relieved that the project done but we’ve been at that point for a couple of months.” Department is stopping “innocent teenagers and young men of color who, in the required not a single zoning change. Fitting the project The final stages of approval and permitting can be moments before their encounter with the police, were engaged in no criminal or into the existing zoning laws suggests it will bring few painstakingly slow, but Anderson says they are on track to suspicious activity.” overt changes to the neighborhood while providing more break ground before the end of and adds that if all The 71st Pct.’s patrol area is broadly considered Central Brooklyn, including all than units of low- to moderate-income housing, goes as planned, the building will be open to rent by of Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Wingate and much of Crown Heights. About 117,000 Cetera explains. spring . people reside under the 71st Pct.’s umbrella—including about 40,000 PLGers, 78 But Cetera expects the project will also beautify the Jeanne Baron is a real estate agent with the Corcoran Group and lives percent of whom are black, the 2010 Census reported. (continued on page 4) block, one of PLG’s most drab looking corridors. “If you on Clarkson 2. Superstorm Sandy Gives Many PLGers a Deeper Appreciation of Thanksgiving Day Story and photos by M P But those inconveniences fade into —where more than homes were Thanksgiving Day came with an extra nothing when compared to the calami - incinerated to ashes in a fire driven by serving of thanks in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. tous, heartrending losses of others. Sandy’s -mile-per-hour winds. But As the rampage of Superstorm Sandy—the News reports say Sandy killed peo - death and devastation also consumed worst natural disaster to hit the Northeast in ple in the United States ( counting the the Rockaways, Red Hook, and many years—tragically devastated neighbor - Caribbean), of them from New York other coastal communities of Queens, hoods near and far, memories of waking up State, including in Brooklyn, Queens Staten Island and Long Island. Tuesday morning, October 30, were accompa - and Staten Island. About a third of the city City officials have red-flagged - nied for many with a deeper appreciation of homes as currently unlivable, the words lucky and gratitude . Our Neighborhood Escaped with as many as deemed beyond For the night before, the fury of Sandy The Worst of Destruction repair and slated to be razed. was laying waste to many New York neigh - PLG’s property damage was a trifle borhoods as if they were the targets of war. ABOVE: There were long lines to fill gas cans by comparison. A few beloved old trees on at the BP station at Flatbush and Lincoln. In truth, PLG was more inconvenienced LEFT: An SUV on Lincoln 1 took a direct hit Rutland, Clarkson and Lincoln will be sorely by Sandy and its aftermath than hurt by it: from an enormous limb, crushing the rear. missed. In Prospect Park, authorities say some lights flickered on and off at its height; the residents who died were elderly trees were damaged badly enough to vital Q, B and 4 subway lines were out for citizens who drowned in their necessitate their removal, and more than , nearly a week; there was the mixed blessing homes. large limbs fell. of missing school and work; long lines per - The state sustained about In a fateful twist, it was largely family mem - sisted at the BP gasoline station for days; billion (and counting) in proper - bers and friends of PLGers who lived in the Prospect Park, the neighborhood’s back - ty damage, but nowhere were the storm path who suffered more. yard, was closed; and all that training for losses as cruel to homeowners Gino and Mary Sela, the affable owners of the NYC Marathon went to waste with the as they were in Breezy Point, Gino’s Trattoria on Flatbush, have been living event’s cancellation.
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