John Freeman Gill

Plans for a tower near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and a skate facility in Mount Prospect Park bring mixed reactions.Shadows cast by a proposed 14-story tower on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, twice the allowable height under current zoning, would have a “significant adverse impact” on plants in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, according to a

The James A. Bailey residence at St. Nicholas Place and 150th Street in Harlem, built in 1888 for the less flamboyant partner of the Barnum & Bailey team, is a three-ring circus of architectural elements: a Romanesque Revival tower, curvilinear Flemish gables, a high chimney adorned with Tudor roses, even a heraldic carving of a