A judge has ordered a developer not to demolish one of the oldest buildings in New York City and to pay $8.6 million in fines for allowing the property to deteriorate in an apparent instance of “demolition by neglect.”
Acting Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Philip Straniere conceded that while the circa-1680 Dutch colonial building is a boarded-up, graffiti-covered, fenced-in eyesore, it was properly recognized by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1984 as worthy of protection because of its historic and architectural importance.
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