Red Hook merchants blast UPS’s sudden demolition of historic factory
“Little people don’t matter when there’s big money.”
Red Hook merchants, much like local preservationists, are pushing back against UPS’s decision to begin demolishing the historic Lidgerwood Building without community input.
They say the delivery-service giant pulled a shady move by starting demolition on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend — without speaking to advocates about preserving the former foundry’s facade.
UPS has “a kindergarten mentality — just knock it down like it’s nothing more than a building,” Bene Coopersmith, owner of the Record Shop on Van Brunt Street, told the Brooklyn Eagle.