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The Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council
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Neighborhood development study
Posted: April 24, 2007
Prospect Heights has long been a diverse community of residents with a range of needs and opinions. In June of 2004, PHNDC commissioned a study by the Pratt Center for Community Development of neighborhood priorities and concerns with respect to development in Prospect Heights. The study was based upon a survey of over 400 Prospect Heights community members designed by the Pratt Center.
Prospect Heights Historic District
Walk down the brownstone-lined streets Prospect Heights and you would be forgiven for thinking you were in a historic district. Located just to the north of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, the cohesive district contains rows of beautiful Neo-Grec and Italianate style rowhouses built in the last 35 years of the nineteenth century. While the neighborhood has seen little change in the nearly 150 years since it first developed, major change is coming in the form of the Atlantic Yards project, as well as other current development.
Vanderbilt Avenue traffic calming
Foot and bike traffic has greatly increased on Vanderbilt Avenue because of residential and commercial development in Prospect Heights and the surrounding areas. As a result, Vanderbilt Avenue has become both a main street for Prospect Heights and a key connection for people traveling by foot and bicycle between Fort Green/Clinton Hill and Prospect Park.
Public involvement in Atlantic Yards
Atlantic Yards is a proposal by the developer Forest City Ratner to build 16 towers and an arena on a 22 acre site in Prospect Heights. The project is being developed in conjunction with the Empire State Development Corporate under the New York State Urban Development Corporation law.
