The Committee source monitoring the DOB BIS database advises me that a demolition application was posted today for the brownstone rowhouse (pictured left) that anchors the row behind the Green Church on Ovington Avenue -- once the Methodist parsonage.The question on the application whether the proposed demolition will affect the structural stability of the neighboring rowhouses was not answered.
The application on the DOB BIS database:
http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByNumberServlet?requestid=1&passjobnumber=310205131&passdocnumber=01
Typical of the obtuse media coverage of the Green Church controversy, the time capsule gets column space, while the multiple, profound and lasting impacts of the Green Church development on Bay Ridge are ignored:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/nyregion/thecity/28time.html?ref=thecity
Want a story, NYT? Talk to the people who live on the Green Church block. Talk to the people who live on Bennett Court, which dead-ends in the churchyard. Talk to the family whose home shares a common wall with the soon-to-be demolished Methodist parsonage on Ovington Avenue. Talk to the local preservationists who were dragged through the mud in the three-year battle to save Bay Ridge's most important landmark. Talk to the approximately 1,200 people who sent letters to LPC Chair Robert Tierney asking him to calendar the church for hearing. Talk to the more than 1,100 people who signed petitions asking State Senator Martin Golden to intervene. Talk to the 139 people who signed the petition linked to this blog seeking the help of our local elected representatives. Talk to the 111 people who joined the Committee to Save the Bay Ridge United Methodist Church. Talk to those congregation members whose voices were drowned out by their leadership.
