Several civic organizations have joined state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) in calling on the city Landmarks Preservation Commission to grant historic preservation status to the 200-year-old William Cornell Farmhouse in Little Neck.
Avella and the groups claim they have been submitting applications to the LPC to landmark the site for about a decade, but it has never approved them.
The property was purchased for $2 million in 2014 by the Harvest Church of New York, which has since razed the greenhouse adjacent to the farmhouse that it plans to modify to use as a rectory, and has proposed building a house of worship on the property’s front lawn.
I wonder what happened to this plan to buy it.
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The Parks decided to pander for votes and make someone's well connected nephew in the ce-ment industry rich by using the money for dog runs?
Do I smell smoke?
Oh my! Connected? Can we get a little more info about this matter?
Everyone was all upset about the Old St. James Parish Hall, the First Reformed Church of College Point, the Bowne Street Community Church, the Macedonia AME Church, and never forget Saint Saviors.
Now you want to stop and be against a group of God fearing people who want to exercise their religious rights and freedom to build a House of Worship to the Almighty?
Maybe it would be better if they were to be building a Mosque?
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and NEITHER CAN STOP THE MARCH OF EVENTS. - Robert A. Heinlein
Never happy, but misery loves company...
No one said they can't preserve the farmhouse AND build a religious building on the property. It's a pretty big piece of land.
don't forget, you need a parking lot
They're currently using the Jewish Center's parking lot and if you have removable chairs instead of pews, you don't need parking at all.
Yeah...right lots of luck!
They're currently using the Jewish Center's parking lot and if you have removable chairs instead of pews, you don't need parking at all.
That was true before we changed the law a decade ago with the Community Facilities Reform Text Amendment. In R1 and R2 districts, for any new house of worship they must have onsite parking - 1 parking space for every ten parishioners, based on the size of the largest room (which is usually the sanctuary or main worship area).
If a new church building is ever constructed at the Cornell Farm property, they must have parking, as it is located in an R1-2 zone.
Paul Graziano
Maybe I need a better map, but I don't understand how the farm straddles the Queens/Nassau border. Both sides of Little Neck Pkwy look like they're part of Queens - aren't the Glen Oaks apartments in Queens? And the Monte Excelsior apartments are in Queens. I don't see the Nassau part of the farm on Google maps.
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