The local business owner and Vice President of the Willoughby Nostrand Marcy Block Association still calls it an open wound.Michael Williams grew up a few doors down and attended countless functions there.
The mysterious mansion is also the place where both Joanna Joyner-Wells and her mother were married, decades apart. "They were built around the same time as many of the other landmarked districts in Bed-Stuy, often by some of the same architects. So there is a sense of cohesion within Bed-Stuy that Landmarks has already recognized, and we are hoping they will recognize us too as having the same merit," said Molly Salas, a resident who has continued to pressure the LPC for answers about why the mansion wasn't landmarked in time.
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