Landmarks Preservation Commission tells Brooklyn Heights townhouse designers to try again
Lou Greco wants to fill one of the only gaps in Brooklyn Heights’ landmarked streets with three townhouses.
But on Tuesday, the city Landmarks Preservation Commission sent the architects who did the design for his 295-299 Hicks St. site back to the drawing board for a do-over and consultation with agency staffers.
The commissioners’ main objection to the design for SDS Development’s three 16-foot-wide red-brick townhouses is that it looks like one big building — which doesn’t fit in with the historic brownstones and carriage houses of Hicks Street.
“You’re trying to cover up the fact that these are extremely skinny,” Commissioner Adi Shamir-Baron said at a public hearing at the agency’s Lower Manhattan office. “It makes for an awkward façade on all levels.”