Worried about the safe, sterile, homogeneous influence of Prospect Heights creeping into your Crown Heights experience? Worry less. A Jeep Wrangler was stripped and left sitting on cinder blocks beneath the Franklin Avenue Shuttle on St. Marks Avenue yesterday, a reminder that the 16-story glass tower planned a few doors down at 540 St. Marks Ave. may be a very difficult sell.
The Village Voice’s Power Plays reports that Greg Singer, the owner of P.S. 64 near the west end of Tompkins Square Park, has begun stripping the terra cotta facade. As Singer was awarded an alteration permit before the building was landmarked in June, he has the legal right to destroy the landmarked facade by October. With the facade removed he can go to court to overturn the building’s landmarked status.
Check out post demolition renderings from the East Village Community Coalition after the jump.
