Home safe? Push to landmark Jackie Robinson’s Flatbush house
City councilmember Jumaane Williams (D – Flatbush, East Flatbush) is taking another whack at getting the East Flatbush home of baseball legend Jackie Robinson designated as a city landmark.
This will be the second time Councilmember Williams has tried to convince the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to confer landmark status to the Robinson’s family home at 5224 Tilden Avenue.
The LPC turned down the application last year when it ruled the site wasn’t eligible because Robinson’s contributions to history took place before he moved to East Flatbush. LPC said in a letter that the Robinsons lived at the home for just one year, from April 1948 through May 1949. But Williams says records show the Robinson family moved in in 1947.