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Local panel poised to seek landmark
status for Angel Guardian Home
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SUPPLEMENTAL CITATION
File No. 2016-3837/A - PA.
No. 146740 SURROGATE’S
COURT, KINGS COUNTY
THE PEOPLE OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK, By
the Grace of God Free and
Independent TO: SARAH
McCROSSIN and MARGARET
McCROSSIN, if living
but if dead, to their heirs at
law, next of kin and distributees
whose name and places
of residence are unknown
and if they died subsequent
to the decedent herein, to
their executors, administrators,
legatees, devisees, assignees,
and successors in
interest whose names and
places of residence are unknown
- The spouse, if any,
and any and all unknown
distributees and creditors
of GEORGE T. McCROSSIN,
deceased, whose
whereabouts are unknown
and if any of the aforesaid
persons be dead, to their
heirs at law, next of kin and
distributees whose names
and places of residence
are unknown and if the
persons died subsequent
to the decedent herein, to
their executors, administrators,
legatees, devisees,
assignees and successors
in interest whose names
and places of residence are
unknown and to all other
heirs at law, next of kin and
distributees of GEORGE T.
McCROSSIN, the decedent
herein, whose names and
places of residence are unknown
and cannot after due
diligence be ascertained, A
petition and account having
been duly filed by the Public
Administrator of Kings
County, who has offices at
360 Adams Street, Room
144A, Brooklyn, New York
11201, United States. YOU
ARE HEREBY CITED TO
SHOW CAUSE before the
Surrogate’s Court, Kings
County, at 2 Johnson Street,
Room 319, Brooklyn, New
York, on March 27, 2018,
at 9:30 o’clock in the fore
noon of that day why: (a)
The account of proceedings
of the Public Administrator
of Kings County as Administrator
of the estate of
GEORGE T. McCROSSIN, a
summary of which has been
served herewith, should
not be judicially settled; (b)
The Public Administrator
of Kings County should not
be paid his commissions
pursuant to SCPA §2307 in
the amount of $22,543.38,
as set forth in Schedules
C-1 and I of the Account;
(c) The Public Administrator
of Kings County should not
be paid his administrative
expenses pursuant to SCPA
§1106(3) in the amount
of $6,206.54 as set forth
in Schedules C-1 and I of
the Account; (d) The Court
should not fix, determine
and approve the legal Fees
of Cullen and Dykman LLP,
counsel to the Petitioner, in
the amount of $37,239.24
as shown in Schedules C-1
and J of the Account; (e) The
Court should not fix, determine
and approve the disbursements
of Cullen and
Dykman LLP in the amount
of $322.00 as shown in
Schedules C-1 and J of the
Account; (f) The Petitioner
should not pay to the Surrogate’s
Court, Kings County,
the sum of $970.00 for the
unpaid balance of the administration
proceeding filing
fee in this manner, as set
forth in Schedule J of the
Account; (g) The claim of the
New York Human Resource
Administration, in the
amount of $71,338.52, for
public assistance provided
to the decedent should not
be allowed; (h) The Claim
of Brooklyn Funeral Home,
in the amount of $1,792.75,
for decedent’s funeral expenses
should not be allowed;
(i) The claim of the
New York State Department
of Taxation and Finance, if
any, should not be fixed and
determined; (j) The Petitioner
should not be permitted
to distribute the net estate
to Mary Brown, decedent’s
sister and sole distributee;
(k) The Petitioner, upon fully
complying with the Decree
to be made in this proceeding,
should not be released
and discharged of and from
any and all liability, responsibility,
and accountability
with respect to the Petitioner’s
acts and proceedings
as Administrator as set forth
and embraced in said account
and the Court grant
such other and further relief
as it deems just and proper;
Dated, Attested, and Sealed,
February 16, 2018, HON.
MARGARITA LOPEZ TORRES,
Surrogate, Doreen A.
Quinn, Chief Clerk; Joseph
J. Borges, Esq., Attorney
Firm: Cullen & Dykman LLP,
Address: 44 Wall Street, NY,
NY 10005-2407, (212)701-
4175. NOTE: This citation is
served upon you as required
by law. You are not required
to appear. If you fail to appear
it will be assumed that
you do not object to the
relief requested. You have
a right to have an attorney
appear for you, and you or
your attorney may request
a copy of the full account
from the petitioner or petitioner’s
attorney.
BY MEAGHAN MCGOLDRICK
MMCGOLDRICK@BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM
Call it a Hail Mary pass.
Nearly two weeks to the
day after supporters of Dyker
Heights’ Angel Guardian Home rallied
outside its still-to-be-shuttered
Narrows Senior Center, Community
Board 10's Zoning and Land Use Committee
voted unanimously to make
a last-ditch effort to help save, at the
very least, the skeleton of the storied
structure.
The committee, chaired by lifelong
Ridgeite Brian Kaszuba, unanimously
supported a motion Thursday evening,
February 15, to request that the New
York City Landmarks Preservation
Commission (LPC) expedite the calendaring
of an application to designate
the Angel Guardian Home an individual
landmark.
“The Zoning and Land Use Committee
unanimously believes that the
Angel Guardian Home is worthy of
consideration of landmark status,” the
chair told this paper. “The committee
believes this historic property, which
is completely intact in its original 1899
condition, meets LPC’s criteria. Its
history, distinct architecture, social
contributions to the community are all
strong reasons to secure designation.”
The Angel Guardian Home – a
14,000-square-foot Dyker Heights
institution that, since the early 1900s,
has taken in countless orphans, becoming
a formal adoption agency in
the 1970s – was sold at the end of last
year to a still unnamed buyer.
This move, despite repeated pleas
from local residents and community
stakeholders to consider either senior
housing, a school or some other combination
of the two that would benefit
the neighborhood at the massive,
block-long site, hints at trouble, supporters
say.
Still, Kaszuba stressed, the committee
hopes LPC will consider the
request — assuming it passes the
full board — based solely on the site’s
deep-rooted history.
“The committee firmly stands by
the decision to recommend that LPC
consider this site 100 percent based
upon the merits and not simply to
prevent potential future development
at its location,” said Kaszuba, associate
director of the Center for NYC Law at
New York Law School, adding, “we do
understand the timing of this decision,
but feel that we have an obligation to
protect our community’s landmarks
before it’s too late.”
The site was built in 1902, according
to city records, and served as an extension
of the Convent of Mercy, housing
hundreds of orphans and eventually
acting as a formal adoption agency
until the 1970s.
In 2003, the Angel Guardian Home
merged with St. Mary’s of the Angels
Home to form the MercyFirst network
of agencies. Up until late last year, the
campus – which spans the entire block
– housed the offices for the Sisters’ foster
care program as well as a senior center,
which had been told initially to close
for good the day of the rally but which
got a reprieve following the rally to its
original end-of-lease month of June.
The Dyker Heights community bid
adieu to the institution at a November,
2016 goodbye party, during which
employees, former volunteers and
past residents were able to reminisce
in preparation for Angel Guardian’s
office’s eventual move to Industry City
in Sunset Park.
The motion to make a formal request
to LPC will go before the full board on
Monday, February 26 for approval.
BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP/file photo
The Angel Guardian Home.