Fun game: if historic districts were based on actual history and not race/aesthetics/home values, what should be landmarked in New York City but isn't? https://twitter.com/nilocobau/status/1311833846300565504

I nominate Northeast Flatbush. Somebody wrote a whole dissertation on it: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8JQ10CJ ...you've got immigrants, you've got a new typology (first car-oriented houses!), you've got uniformity. And not only is it not landmarked, but it's zoned for twice the built density

Strong case for Charlotte Gardens. Totally uniform split-level prefab ranches in the heart of the South Bronx. A snapshot in time of the worst of American urban decay. And a famous picture involving a US president! Can't get much more historic than that https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/nyregion/05charlotte.html

And of course the Trump bungalows of southern Brooklyn, for reasons you can probably deduce. There's an ironic twist on Fred Trump's discrimination with some poetic justice: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/01/nyregion/housing-segregation-new-twists-and-old-results.html