A tale of three houses: From demolition to restoration, Ridge Boulevard homes head toward varied fates
By Helen Klein
Special to the Brooklyn Eagle
From brooklyneagle.com
Ridge Boulevard between 76th and 77th Streets may be the poster child for everything that careful, contextual zoning can’t accomplish.
Dominated by a trio of expansive, traditional homes for decades, the strip is now a study in change, and a dramatic illustration of the limitations on preservation inherent in zoning which can put restrictions on bulk, height and density but which imposes no aesthetic strictures, and also allows open space to shrink.