{"id":659,"date":"2006-02-03T08:12:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T16:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/greenwood_cemetery_vista_saved.html"},"modified":"2006-02-03T08:12:50","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T16:12:50","slug":"greenwood_cemet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/greenwood_cemet.html","title":{"rendered":"Greenwood Cemetery Vista Saved?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will the wave on Battle Hill be saved? Minerva boosters are skeptical<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It may “save the wave,” but Greenwood Heights advocates have ripped a new deal promising not to block a long-celebrated sightline between a landmark statue and the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\n

The view between Minerva and Lady Liberty would have been blocked by a condo planned in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

But developer Chaim Nussencweig signed an agreement with the Green-Wood Cemetery last week promising to alter designs for the unpopular condo plan so it will not block the wave.<\/p>\n

In exchange, cemetery officials agreed to stop publicly criticizing the project or participating in a neighborhood campaign to make sure the building is scaled back to fit within new zoning regulations.<\/p>\n

“I feel they’re dancing with the devil,” said Aaron Brashear of the Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights, which has been leading the fight against the agreement Green-Wood Cemetery signed with the developer.<\/p>\n

“The agreement is too little, too late,” he added. “It’s inadequate and it’s irrelevant because this building should not be built under the current zoning.”<\/p>\n

At issue is whether the condos at 614 Seventh Ave. will be built at the originally-proposed height of 70 feet or will have to be scaled back by a third because of the new zoning — though that still could be high enough to block the view.<\/p>\n

Nussencweig has appealed so he can build to 70 feet.<\/p>\n

Brashear’s group charged the agreement is so vague that the view would not necessarily be saved and that the pact would only preserve a sliver of the view.<\/p>\n

Green-Wood Cemetery President Richard Moylan said he negotiated the best deal possible to protect as much of the view as feasible.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Minerva:<\/p>\n

\"Minerva,<\/p>\n

Current view from Battle Hill:<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

See also: Greenwood Cemetery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will the wave on Battle Hill be saved? Minerva boosters are skeptical: It may “save the wave,” but Greenwood Heights advocates have ripped a new deal promising not to block a long-celebrated sightline between a landmark statue and the Statue of Liberty. The view between Minerva and Lady Liberty would have been blocked by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","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=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}