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“KICK” Founder, Brooklyn Heights Preservationist Malcolm Chesney Dies

Chances are without Heights Heroes like Malcolm Chesney, Brooklyn Heights would be one giant highway today.  Mr. Chesney, a Brooklyn Heights resident and champion of Brownstone Brooklyn preservation, died Thursday at 87.  The group Chesney founded in 1958 with fellow Heights Heroes Otis Pearsall and Martin Schneider, Community Conservation and Improvement Council (KICK) eventually merged […]

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