Weir waiting for a fix-up, aren’t we?
Cemetery officials negotiating property purchase next door to greenhouse for visitors center
Green-Wood Cemetery wants to demolish one-third of the landmarked Weir Greenhouse before restoring the rest of it – and surrounding it with a big new building for a visitors center.
Tuesday, the city Landmarks Preservation Commission said Not so fast.
“Destroying the building to ‘save’ it can’t be countenanced,” Commission Chairman Robert Tierney said at a hearing in Lower Manhattan.