Block Association Supports Protection of Carroll Gardens Courtyards

The St. John's Place Block Association supports the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association in its efforts to prevent the erosion of the historic integrity of its neighborhood by working to protect a front garden, or courtyard, on Smith Street and First Place, threatened by development. It is one of the many front gardens that define that neighborhood and give it its name. They are city owned and protected by a 150-year-old law, and should remain so, in our view. This law states that the unique wide gardens of the neighborhood's Place blocks can not be built on or used for parking. The attempt to amend the law is being pushed by the Hannah Senesh, a private institution, which like Berkeley Carroll, would develop to the detriment of its neighbors. As such, we ask our members to make every effort to support our westerly neighbors.

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