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Council Member Hudson inquires about preserving culturally significant structures
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Council Member Crystal Hudson asks the LPC nominees about their approach to preserving structures that are culturally or historically significant to local communities, even if they are not officially landmarked. She specifically mentions her district in Brooklyn, which has many landmark buildings but also non-landmarked structures important to the historically Black community.
- Hudson expresses concern about the demolition of beautiful, historically significant buildings that LPC deemed should be demolished
- She asks how the nominees would suggest LPC assesses or addresses such structures
- The question aims to understand how LPC balances community significance with official landmark status
Crystal Hudson
0:55:55
Thank you.
0:55:56
I I guess my question is somewhat related to the the questions from councilmember Brewer, but, a few of you mentioned in your testimonies the loss of structures that, though may not have been landmarked, were significant to the local communities and also mentioned preserving, you know, structures that might be important to historic communities.
0:56:24
And so I'm just wondering how you would suggest LPC preserve these types of structures.
0:56:30
What type of assessment might you make if there are structures that might be important to the community, significant, culturally significant, or relevant to a particular community that might be slated for destruction and how you think LPC should should look at those structures.
Steven Chu
0:56:58
Okay, sorry.
0:56:59
Could you just the first part of your question?
0:57:02
Could you repeat?
Crystal Hudson
0:57:03
I guess I'm just trying to get a sense of how how you would suggest LPC assesses or addresses structures that that they might suggest well, I guess let me give a more specific example.
0:57:19
I represent a district in Brooklyn that has a lot of landmark buildings but also buildings that aren't necessarily landmarked, that are culturally significant, historically significant to the community, a historically black community.
0:57:34
And so there we've seen buildings in my district and in other districts that have been demolished that were beautiful homes or beautiful structures that had significance, historical significance to the community but that LPC deemed should be demolished, which, you know, separate and apart from like any legal ownership whatever situations, I'm just trying to assess how you think LPC should handle those types of matters in the Or since you have experience already, maybe how you've thought about mean,
Steven Chu
0:58:12
I'll try to answer your question.