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The Historic Districts Council just announced its annual list of six areas of New York meriting preservation, as part of its Six to Celebrate campaign this year. Over the year, the HDC will offer hands-on assistance in a number of preservation issues, like documentation, research, zoning, landmarking, publicity, and public outreach. Here in Queens, the HDC selected the Forest Close neighborhood of Forest Hills as an area worth celebrating. Here’s what they have to say about Forest Close:
Designed in 1927 in the spirit of the garden city movement, Forest Close is a charming nook of 38 neo-Tudor houses surrounding a shared communal garden. While the Forest Close Association maintains covenants that regulate design and open space elements of the community and advises residents on design guidelines for building projects, they are now exploring other tools to better protect the area’s special character. The Association is working to engage residents and local stakeholders to promote the preservation of this lush neighborhood in Forest Hills.
4 comments:
We have houses just like those in Flushing - hey Paul can you get those registered before the foreigners destroy them?
It is too late for Flushing, the cancer has spread too widely. Fedders Specials everywhere now. Maybe Forest Hills can be saved.
Worse then fedders are those split AC systems people are putting all over their houses. Most are Mitsubishi or Fujitsu and should be placed in inconspicuously. Most new home owners in Queens have no class and put them next to the front door. What an eyesore !
We have houses just like those in Flushing - hey Paul can you get those registered before the foreigners destroy them?
Working on it.
And it's not just foreigners who are wrecking our neighborhoods...plenty of people born in the good US of A!
Paul Graziano
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