{"id":2898,"date":"2007-11-02T07:18:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T15:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/11\/remembering_the_greenpoint_terminal_market_fire_just_gets_you_in_the_gutt_man.html"},"modified":"2007-11-02T07:18:16","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T15:18:16","slug":"remembering_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/remembering_the.html","title":{"rendered":"Remembering The Greenpoint Terminal Market Fire Just Gets You In The Gutt, Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Landmarks Commission stokes, er, fans the, er, throws oil, er, should we say <em>provocatively draws a link<\/em> between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/greenpoint\/terminalmarketfire\/index.htm\">Greenpoint Terminal Market Fire<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/30\/43\/30_43landmarkfactory.html\">current preservation efforts around the neighborhood<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A city panel has landmarked Greenpoint&#8217;s Eberhard Faber pencil factory and several surrounding buildings &#8212; just in time, one commissioner remarked, to protect the building from &#8220;development fever [and] fires.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the most famous of the Eberhard buildings &#8212; the factory at 61 Greenpoint Ave. with its distinctive pencil-shaped adornments . . . &#8212; the Landmarks Preservation Commission also protected eight other 19th- and 20th-century factory buildings, placing them all in the &#8220;Eberhard Faber Pencil Company Historic District.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The district abuts the Greenpoint Terminal Market, a warehouse complex that burned in a suspicious fire last year &#8212; an incident in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood that was evoked by Brooklyn Commissioner Elizabeth Ryan during Tuesday&#8217;s hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Development fever is raging through the neighborhood &#8212; as well as fires &#8212; so the sooner this is protected, the better,&#8221; she said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Landmarks Commission stokes, er, fans the, er, throws oil, er, should we say provocatively draws a link between the Greenpoint Terminal Market Fire and current preservation efforts around the neighborhood: A city panel has landmarked Greenpoint&#8217;s Eberhard Faber pencil factory and several surrounding buildings &#8212; just in time, one commissioner remarked, to protect the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}