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Op-Ed: Housing, Not High-Rises - BKReader

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The history of changing neighborhoods in Brooklyn is that of richer people invading a neighborhood and displacing the primary residents. And then once they become the dominant group, there’s a tendency to want to keep others out. Affordable housing, in this scenario, is a humane aim to hold up – unless it’s in their backyard. An influx of poorer people who will change the tenor of the area is a source of fear. This is not the case in my neighborhood, Greenwood Heights. Nobody I’ve spoken to is worried about less well-off infiltrators. We’re worried about driving our neighbors out of their affordable apartments. We’re against a 13-story building of mostly luxury apartments on the site of the one-story Arrow Linen & Uniform Supply Company plant at 467 Prospect Ave. The owner of Arrow Linen is asking for the area to be rezoned. Where a one-story laundry structure and some three-story houses exist, they’d like to see 13-story towers. In total, the plans would add roughly 300 apartments to

Op-Ed: Housing, Not High-Rises - BKReader Skip to content Join our Newsletter Home Local Voices Op-Ed: Housing, Not High-Rises Many Windsor Terrace and Greenwood Heights residents want housing, but not high-rise buildings. Laura Hulbert Sep 9, 2024 10:52 AM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Some residents do not want the city to approve a rezoning of the land where Arrow Linen & Uniform Supply Company sits on Prospect Avenue in Windsor Terrace. Photo: Supplied/Google Maps Listen to this article 00:03:30 The history of changing neighborho

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