The packed viewing room broke into applause and tears as the commissioners declared the two block area between Nostrand and Marcy avenues the city's newest historic district: The Willoughby-Hart Historic District.
"Growing up, my parents, they worked so hard, on Willoughby Avenue, that area was redlined, my parents couldn't get a loan to have a business, so my brother and sister and I, we struggled so hard to maintain that building and to this day I still love this block and that building and I appreciate what you've been doing for us, thank you, from the bottom of my heart," he said.
Before the vote took place, LPC Chair Sarah Carroll said when she went on a site visit to tour the area she found "these streets really stood out architecturally within their immediate surroundings."
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