REMARKS
Council Member Lincoln Restler's remarks on the Brooklyn Edison Building landmark designation
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Council Member Lincoln Restler discusses the importance of the Brooklyn Edison Building at 345 Adams Street in Downtown Brooklyn and its potential landmark designation. He emphasizes the need to preserve the building's architecture while ensuring the retail spaces on the lower floors can be activated effectively.
- Restler highlights the building's unusual ownership structure, with the lower floors owned by a developer for retail use and the rest owned by the city.
- He mentions working with city associations to advance preservation goals while developing an effective plan with the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) for the retail spaces.
- Restler acknowledges the dramatic changes in Downtown Brooklyn and the importance of recognizing its rich architectural history.
Lincoln Restler
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Thank you very much to your nurse.
0:09:11
The Edison building, 345 Adams, is well known to, I think, probably certainly, every member of the city council from Brooklyn because that's where the board of elections is.
0:09:21
We have a number of city agencies in there.
0:09:23
It's a beautiful building.
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And, you know, Downtown Brooklyn has been undergoing dramatic changes in recent decades, and it's important that we continue to recognize and celebrate the rich architectural history of some of the buildings that had made Downtown Brooklyn great.
0:09:45
I have been in close communication with the you know, it's for my colleagues' benefit.
0:09:50
This is an unusual unusual ownership structure of the building.
0:09:53
Where the ground floor spaces or the first two floors, I believe, were condoed out to a developer to make them for dynamic retail spaces and decast the city owns the remainder of the building.
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It's critically important to me that we preserve the beautiful architecture of this building, and I've been working with some of the city associations in the area to advance this goal while also ensuring that The retail spaces can be activated and that we develop an effective plan with LPC while this is under counsel review to ensure that these retail spaces can be to the benefit of our community.
0:10:40
So I have a number of questions, but happy to hear the presentation and go from there.
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And thank you for the chance to comment to your nurse.
Sandy Nurse
0:10:46
Thank you.