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Ridgewood buildings slated for vertical expansion
1664 Woodbine St. (right) is slated for a fourth story addition, sparking
concerns in the neighborhood.
transfer of property value because of
speculation.”
A lifelong resident of Ridgewood,
Kerzner explained that national and
state historic status does not protect
a building from redevelopment. Only
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city landmark status has that power,
and the areas in question haven’t been
designated as landmarks yet despite
Kerzner’s eff orts.
At the Madison Street property, the
addition would bring the building’s
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height to 43 feet and a total of 7,076
square feet of residential space. The
building was previously used as a
community residence for the developmentally
disabled, and the proposed
development would turn it into seven
apartments; two on each of the fi rst
three fl oors and one on the new fourth
fl oor.
The Woodbine Street property
would be increased to a height of 54
feet and 7,601 square feet of residential
space. The building currently has
two units on each of its three fl oors,
but the proposed changes would
create an extra unit on the second
and third fl oors, three units on the
new fourth fl oor and one unit in the
penthouse for a total of 12 units in the
building.
Kerzner added that he was told, in
essence, that Ridgewood wasn’t going
to get any more city landmarks, and
the chair of the Landmarks Preservation
Commission, Meenakshi Srinivasan,
resigned this past April.
It’s good news for the developers,
and they tend not to care about the
neighborhoods they enter, Kerzner
said.
“I would ask them to stop doing what
they’re doing because it’s wrong,” Kerzner
said. “It’s destroying the integrity
of the block.”
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Two Ridgewood residences in
historic territory are slated for
redevelopment to make room
for more apartments, according to Department
of Buildings (DOB) records.
In March, a three-story, three-family
building at 1663 Madison St. received
a permit to add a fourth story to its
existing structure, records show. Two
months later, a three-story, six-unit
building at 1664 Woodbine St. — directly
behind the fi rst building on the
same block — received a permit in May
to add a fourth story and a penthouse
to its existing structure.
With both properties located on National
and State Registers of Historic
Places, the new developments set an
“unfortunate” precedent for the blocks
of attached brick homes and make local
residents fear gentrifi cation, said
Ridgewood Property Owners and Civic
Association President Paul Kerzner.
“In theory, you can take any building
in Ridgewood, Glendale, Maspeth and
Middle Village that is not part of the
city landmarks and that can happen
to any property,” Kerzner said. “I’m
also concerned about gentrification,
because to me it’s the artifi cial
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