Landmarks approves modern house on long-vacant Brooklyn Heights lot
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — A LONG-VACANT LOT on shady Cranberry Street in Brooklyn Heights could finally see a modern four-story brick building, after the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission approved designs at Tuesday’s meeting, Brownstoner reports. A new building at 27 Cranberry Street by developer Louis Greco has come before the commissioners several times, but the structure was never built. In July 2023, architect Tom Kowalski presented new plans to LPC, and after changing a few details at the request of the commissioners, they unanimously approved the plans, albeit with conditions around the color and style of the bricks.
The Brooklyn Heights Association and another local resident had written to the commission urging it to deny the plans for reasons not immediately revealed, Brownstoner reports. But commissioners called the latest design creative, admirable, a “modern insertion into a historic neighborhood,” and “a terrific project that is going to fill a hole in the landscape.”
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