Thousands of New Yorkers converged at major landmarks, blocking squares, highways and bridges, shortly after authorities announced that NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo would not be indicted for putting Eric Garner, 43, in an illegal chokehold in Staten Island on July 17.
Leshah Williams, the Corcoran Group (718 923-8081; www.corcoran.com TAXES: $1,940 PROS: On a landmark block, the house has been completely updated while retaining all the original wainscoting, mantels and wood shutters.
Some in Brooklyn have argued that corporate branding does not belong on landmark blocks; the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission approves of the program, however.
At the high end, rentals can soar into the $1,800 range for "five rooms and a formal dining room on a landmark block," said John Casella, a broker at Crest Haven Realty.
They read, in all capital letters, "Residential landmark blocks are not for advertising or commercial activity!" The city's Transportation Department said it had been warned of possible problems ahead by aides of Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, where a bike share program began in 2010.
When an earnest woman took the podium to explain, in a way bound to invite derision, how agonizing it had been to explain to her child why one of the kiosks in her neighborhood had been defaced so quickly — slapped with a few sheets of paper declaring, "Landmark blocks are not for sale" — more frustration could be heard.
"When we were looking for houses," he said, "the landmarked blocks were nicer.
"Greenpoint," she added, "is still a family-oriented place with a large section of landmarked blocks, so I don't see it becoming an entirely different place.
Inside these boundaries are the eight landmarked blocks of Lefferts Manor, with 600 lots all zoned for single family use and with a potpourri of Federal, neo-Georgian, Tudor and Victorian houses.
Co-op in Upper West Side Mews $625,000 MANHATTAN1515 Pomander Walk, #1 (aka 265 West 94th Street, at Broadway) A 740-square-foot, two-bedroom, one-bath co-op on a landmarked block that replicates a London street.
