Whites own all the new businesses in the landmark district.
Although 640 Fifth Avenue visually resembles the buildings in Rockefeller Center, it is not part of the landmark district.
Time Warner says it has found less obtrusive places for the 10 boxes in the landmark district, and is seeking new sites for the 14 other boxes nearby.
"I knew people liked El Teddy's, but the crown and the mosaics obviously had nothing at all to do with the nineteenth-century architectural history that the landmark district was meant to preserve," he says.
Although the landmark district will preserve the unusual architecture of Fieldston's 250 houses, some owners were opposed because the landmark designation restricts what they can do with their property.
Just a few blocks from the brick house on Damen Avenue, on a street not in the landmark district, Jeffrey R. Kelley and Christina J. Sciotto stood in the tiny front yard of their two-story 19th-century house.
The Brooklyn Heights Association has opposed new development in the past, including Mr. Eichner's attempt in the 1980's to build a 15-story cooperative building on the site of an old hotel in the landmark district.
Property owners and developers had been seeing red meat all around the Far West Village, and the historic society moved quickly to extend the landmark district and put the kibosh on a Miami-on-Hudson, which I support, of course.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND Boundaries are never a subject of universal accord in the city, but this small area, which became a landmark district in 1979, is generally viewed as defined by that designation: Church Avenue to the north, Beverley Road to the south, Coney Island Avenue to the west and the tracks of the Q train to the east.
