Get a good look at New York Methodist Hospital’s historic buildings before the wrecking ball swings
Eye On Real Estate: Stately properties are situated on proposed Park Slope expansion site
The wrecking ball awaits.
Before they’re gone, gone, gone, take a moment to appreciate the buildings New York Methodist Hospital has targeted for demolition.
The hospital, which has owned the handsome properties for decades, plans to tear them down and construct the Center for Community Health, a 486,000-square-foot building that would be 150 feet high.
Get a good look — while there’s still time — at these stately Park Slope rowhouses and small apartment buildings of limestone, brick and brownstone on 5th and 6th streets and Eighth Avenue. They’re part of the historic fabric of a storied Brooklyn neighborhood that’s “not only a New York treasure, but a national treasure of a preserved, human-scale place,” architectural historian Francis Morrone said in an affidavit for a lawsuit challenging the development. (More about that lawsuit in a minute.)