Save Greenwood Heights & Battle Hill
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We the undersigned are signing this petition to register our concern about increasing and rampant non-contextual new development in the Greenwood Heights/South South Slope community in the borough of Brooklyn. Such irresponsible multi-story development is destroying the character of this neighborhood of predominantly single- and two-family two- and three-story houses.
We are also concerned at the potential of any new non-contextual construction to affect the historical significance of 23rd and 22nd Streets and the surrounding area by obstructing the views from the Battle Hill Monument in Green-Wood Cemetery, a significant site in American history, where the first battle of the Nation was fought in 1776 and where a monument of Minerva saluting the Statue of Liberty in the harbor (a line of sight directly down 23rd St.) was dedicated in 1920 to honor the thousands of Washingtons soldiers who were buried where they fell.
We are concerned that this neighborhood is under siege by developers who are building non-contextual multi-story buildings in Greenwood Heights/South South Slope area at an increasingly rapid pace, and we wholeheartedly support the rezoning of this site from its current R6 to the new R6B contextual zoning (which would mandate that new construction conform to the context of the block).
We are also concerned at the potential of any new non-contextual construction to affect the historical significance of 23rd and 22nd Streets and the surrounding area by obstructing the views from the Battle Hill Monument in Green-Wood Cemetery, a significant site in American history, where the first battle of the Nation was fought in 1776 and where a monument of Minerva saluting the Statue of Liberty in the harbor (a line of sight directly down 23rd St.) was dedicated in 1920 to honor the thousands of Washingtons soldiers who were buried where they fell.
We are concerned that this neighborhood is under siege by developers who are building non-contextual multi-story buildings in Greenwood Heights/South South Slope area at an increasingly rapid pace, and we wholeheartedly support the rezoning of this site from its current R6 to the new R6B contextual zoning (which would mandate that new construction conform to the context of the block).
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Goal
150 signatures
Goal: 100
Latest Signatures
10 December 2015
150.
Bethany P
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Save the View!
4 December 2015
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Michael Gp
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18 November 2015
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Michael G
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649 6th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
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I purchased a single-family home last year and am engaged i
9 November 2015
147.
Steve K
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President Street, Park Slope
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we're moving this fall to 21st Street from our longtime home i
26 October 2015
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5 October 2015
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26 August 2015
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20 August 2015
140.
David Nealm
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This is important not just for residents but for all Brooklynites, all New Yorkers, and all individ
11 August 2015
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27 July 2015
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19 July 2015
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Jennifer S
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8 July 2015
134.
India C
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please save this beautiful spot!
6 July 2015
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Dafna I
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3 July 2015
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5 June 2015
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Drew J
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26 May 2015
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Shirley Sherman
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Petition target:
Mayor Bloomberg, Borough President Marty Markowitz & Amanda Burden @ the Dept. of City Planning
Mayor Bloomberg, Borough President Marty Markowitz & Amanda Burden @ the Dept. of City Planning
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