Tenafly’s Planning Board voted, 6-3, to allow the estate at 53 Knickerbocker Road to be torn down and 10, single-family homes to be built on the property.
In an effort to have the property preserved as a designated historic site, borough officials are scrambling to find a buyer for the six-acre property.
Jeffrey Clyman and Sandra Merrill of New York, put it on the market for $6.9 million. After they got no buyers, they opted to subdivide the land so they could build homes and sell them for around $2 million each.
Mayor Peter Rustin requested that Watkins – attorney of the property owners – wait 90 days to take action on the property so that he can find a buyer who will keep the home intact.
Watkins agreed to the request. “I have no problem working with the borough to sell the parcel as a whole if that’s the direction in which they’d like to go,” he said. He noted that a price of $6.9 million is firm
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