NEW YORK (AP) — The City Council has approved the expansion of Brooklyn’s Park Slope historic district.
In April, the Landmarks Preservation Commission had agreed to add 600 structures from the 19th and early 20th century to the area. The City Council’s vote on Wednesday affirms the change.
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The expansion means that it is now a district of 2,575 contiguous historic buildings.
That makes it bigger than the 2,315-building historic district in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
The expanded district is made up of mostly tree-lined streets filled with brownstones. It also includes the former Ansonia Clock Works factory, once the world’s largest clock manufacturer. It connects to the existing historic area — 30 blocks of townhouses near the western side of Prospect Park.
