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    New district for Manhattan’s Upper West Side

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation  •  Upper West Side, Manhattan

    Final Manhattan Avenue Historic District. Image: LPC.

    Manhattan Avenue historic district to encompass 40 buildings. Landmarks unanimously designated the Manhattan Avenue Historic District, a 40-building district that encompasses several sets of row houses built between 1886 and 1889 on West 105th and West 106th Streets and Manhattan Avenue. Included among the buildings are row houses designed by Charles Pierrepont Gilbert, who is also noted for designs of 20 houses within the Park Slope Historic District and a mansion for F.W. Woolworth. The district encompasses an array of architectural styles, including Gothic, Queen Anne and Romanesque.

    In voting to approve, Commissioner Margery Perlmutter remarked on the consistency of the buildings’ designs, calling it “unusual for the Upper West Side” and saying its streets feel more like Brooklyn’s. (more…)

    Tags : Manhattan Avenue Historic District
    Date: 06/15/2007
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    Landmarks Considers Application to Demolish Church Based on Hardship Request

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Landmark Status  •  Upper West Side, Manhattan

    The West Park Presbyterian Church. Image Credit: NYC LPC.

    Met with both strong support and staunch opposition, a Manhattan church’s hardship application would allow the landmarked building to be demolished. On June 14, 2022, the Landmark Preservation Commission held a public hearing to discuss the future of Individual Landmark West Park Presbyterian Church, located on 165 86th Street in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The West Park Administrative Commission has applied for a Certificate of Appropriateness to demolish the church building on the grounds of hardship. (more…)

    Tags : hardship exception, landmark status, Landmarks Preservation Commission, West Park Presbyterian Church
    Date: 06/28/2022
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    Landmarks Holds Hearing on Upper West Side Church Adaptation

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Upper West Side, Manhattan

    Proposed Rendering of 361 Central Park West Image Credit: Landmarks

    Upper West Side community weary on rooftop addition and removal of stained glass windows. On March 3, 2020, the Landmarks Preservation Commission heard an application by the Children’s Museum of Manhattan for a Certificate of Appropriateness regarding 361 Central Park West, a Beaux Arts classical style church overlooking Central Park. The building is located on the northwest corner of Central Park West and 96th Street in Manhattan. Approval of the application would permit adaptive reuse of the building by facilitating roof additions, window replacements, alterations to entrances, door replacements, signage installation and the excavation of the cellar.

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    Tags : 361 Cenral Park West, certificate of appropriateness, Children's museum of manhattan, Council Member Helen Rosenthal, Council Member Mark Levine, First Church of Christ Scientist, FXCollaborative, Gale brewer, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Robert Rodriguez
    Date: 03/16/2020
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    Landmarks Calendars Six LGBT Historic Sites for Consideration

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Landmarks Calendaring  •  Manhattan and Staten Island

    The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. Image Credit: NYC LPC

    The six buildings are up for consideration in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. On May 14, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a calendaring hearing for five buildings in Manhattan and one building in Staten Island to consider for future designation. The six sites – the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, Women’s Liberation Center, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, the Caffe Cino, the James Baldwin Residence and the Audre Lorde Residence – all reflect some aspect of New York’s LGBT history. (more…)

    Tags : Audre Lorde Residence, caffe cino, James Baldwin Residence, landmarks calendaring, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LGBT, LGBT historic sites, The Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, The LGBT Community Center, Women's Liberation Center
    Date: 05/30/2019
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    New Six-Story-Plus-Setback Building Proposed For West Broadway Site

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Certificate of Appropriateness  •  SoHo, Manhattan

    Rendering of 430 West Broadway in Manhattan.

    Morris Adjmi-designed building would replace three-story commercial structure built in 1986. On June 12, 2018, Landmarks held a hearing on a proposal to construct a new building at 430 West Broadway in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. The lot is currently occupied by a three-story commercial structure built in 1986 and redesigned in 1997 to plans by the firm of Greenberg Farrow. The proposal would see the demolition of the existing building, and the construction of a new design by Morris Adjmi Architects, that would rise to six stories at the streetwall, with an additional setback story. (more…)

    Tags : Barbara Zay, Christabel Gough, Fred Bland, Higgins Quasebarth, Historic District Council, Manhattan Community Board 2, Morris Adjmi Architects, Society for the Architecture of the City
    Date: 06/26/2018
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