I will devote this blogspot to being a Carroll Gardens archival resource, to promote maintaining our neighborhood in a manner that preserves, recognizes, and respects its contextual and historical significance and architectural integrity, and to protect our local heritage from the challenge of out-of-character development.
The available FAR at 122 First Place gave the owners a choice of extending into the rear yard or adding an additional floor. They extended into the rear yard, which blocked my kitchen window, and our stairwell windows.