Brooklyn's Latest Landmark District is in Victorian Flatbush

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[Images courtesy of Flatbush Gardener; click to expand]

Webster Hall and some other important Manhattan landmarks might have gotten most of the attention yesterday, but Brooklyn got some love from the Landmarks Preservation Commission with the creation of the Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park Historic District. The new district will be bounded by Foster Avenue on the north, Avenue H on the south, Ocean Avenue on the east and the subway line carrying the Q and other trains on the west. There are more than 250 homes in the district. We're talking about, in the LPC's words, "Colonial Revival and Shingle Style houses are largely intact, asymmetrically massed and feature spacious porches, elaborate projecting towers, oriels and bays, Palladian windows and deep eaves." The developments date from the late 1800s and there's been a lot of development pressure on the neighborhood, leading Brownstoner to write that the designation is "not a moment too soon."
· Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park (Warning: PDF) [nyc.gov]
· LPC Designates Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park [Brownstoner]
· Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park Designated [Flatbush Gardener]

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