“It stinks,” if you ask Andrew Berman, Executive Director of Village Preservation.
What he was referring to are a set of well-known buildings at the corner of Ninth Avenue and 14th Street that date to the 1840s and are protected as historic sites, but that is not stopping city agencies from green-lighting their demolition.
The circumstances that the structures at 44-54 Ninth Ave., be deemed unsafe by both the city Department of Buildings and the Landmarks Preservation Commission in the midst of a plan to redevelop the corner by Tavros Capital, is simply too convenient, according to Berman at a rally Thursday morning.
