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    Testimony heard on proposed rule regarding installation of Wi-Fi kiosks with digital advertising display

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Rules Amendment  •  Citywide
    image taken from LinkNYC website

    Key kiosk features. Image Credit: LinkNYC.

    Proposed rule change would change text governing installation of public pay phones in landmarked area to allow for installation of Public Design Commission-approved public communications structures with digital advertising. On March 3, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a hearing on a proposed amendment to agency rules governing the installation phone booths. The proposed rule changes would update the agency rules pertaining to public pay phones. The updated rules responds to the de Blasio administration’s initiative to replace public pay phones with new public communications structures providing phone service and free Wi-Fi, with a tablet that accesses emergency services, and charging stations for cellphones and other electronic devices. (more…)

    Tags : Brooklyn Heights Association, Carnegie Hill Neighbors, Citybridge, Cristabel Gough, Landmark West!, LinkNYC, Mark Silberman, Municipal Art Society, Public Design Commission
    Date: 05/12/2016
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    Thirty of 95 backlogged items prioritized for 2016 designation votes

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Special Meeting  •  Citywide

    The Thomas-Lamb designed Loew’s 175th Street Theater in Washington Heights was prioritized for designation. Image credit: LPC

    Some items will be removed from calendar due to political reality that designations will not be ratified by Council; others are found to be adequately protected so as to not require prioritization; others to lack significance that would merit immediate designation. On February 23, 2016, Landmarks made determinations on the disposition of 95 items added to Landmarks’ calendar before 2010, but never subjected to a vote on designation. In 2015 the commission had announced an initiative to clear the calendar of the backlogged items. Landmarks held a series of public hearings to give the public an opportunity to testify on the items, some of which had languished on Landmarks’ calendar for decades. At the meeting on February 23, 2016 commissioners voted to keep 30 items on the calendar for a vote on designation during 2016. The remaining 65 items will be decalendared. Landmarks’ determinations on all 95 items are listed in the associated chart.

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    Tags : Adi Shamir-Baron, City Council, Commissioner Diana Chapin, Commissioner Michael Goldblum, Council Member Steven Matteo, John Gustafsson, Joseph Borelli, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Mark Silberman, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Michael Devonshire, Public Design Commission, Sarah Carroll
    Date: 02/29/2016
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    History in the Making: The New York City Landmarks Law at 50

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  NYC Landmark Law  •  Citywide
    From Left to Right: Paul Selver, Jerold Kayden, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Kent Barwick. Image Credit: LPC

    From Left to Right: Paul Selver, Jerold Kayden, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Kent Barwick. Image Credit: LPC

    Speakers spoke of the different priorities of City government and other stakeholders, examined preservation strategies of municipalities nationwide, and considered changes in the legal landscape that could affect landmarking. On October 26, 2015, , Meenakshi Srinivasan, Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and Jerold Kayden, Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, co-hosted an event titled “History in the Making: The New York City Landmarks Law at 50.” The event held at the New York City Bar Association consisted of multiple addresses and panels intended to provoke and challenge common assumptions and perceptions regarding historic preservation as the City’s landmarks law enters the second half of its first century. (more…)

    Tags : Alicia Glen, Anne Van Ingen, Ellen Lipsey, Jerold Kayden, Kent Barwick, Marci Hamilton, Mark Silberman, Maurice Cox, Meenakshi Srinivasan, NYC City Bar Association, Paul Selver, Peter Byrne, Rick Cook, Two Trees Management, William Cook
    Date: 11/10/2015
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    Emergency Demolition May Be Necessary for City-Owned Individual Landmark

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Advisory Report  •  South Bronx, Bronx
    Street view of P.S. 31 in the Bronx, NY. Image credit: Google.

    Street view of P.S. 31 in the Bronx, NY. Image credit: Google.

    Landmarks urged DOB and DCAS to look at all possible alternatives before resorting to demolition. On December 17, 2013, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a hearing for the application for an advisory report to demolish the individually landmarked Public School 31, located at 425 Grand Concourse in the Bronx. The Collegiate Gothic-style building was designed by C.B.J. Snyder and is currently owned by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, which assumed possession of the building from the Department of Education in 2011. The school has been vacant since 1997. (more…)

    Tags : department of buildings, Department of Citywide Administrative Services, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Public School 31
    Date: 01/08/2014
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    New Green Design Development Near Puck Building Approved

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Certificate of Appropriateness  •  SoHo, Manhattan
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    Rendering of development at 298-308 Lafayette Street, view from Houston Street toward the west. Image Credit: CookFox Architects.

    Commissioners embrace plan by CookFox Architects that would replace gas station, garage, bar and billboard. On April 9, 2013, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the issuance of a certificate of appropriateness for the construction of a new, seven-story building at 298-308 Lafayette Street. The three lots face the Puck Building and are at the corner of Lafayette and Houston Streets in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District Extension. The plan calls for the demolition of three existing structures that currently occupy the site. This includes the demolition of the Puck Fair bar, Houston Car Care, a BP gas station, and a billboard. The new building will be used for office and retail space.

    Developer Marcello Porcelli, President of LargaVista Companies, said the plan utilizes the site for “a higher and better use” than its current occupants. Porcelli said “we were extremely selective in choosing the right steward for this design process,” and that sustainability was a “guiding principle” of the project.

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    Tags : 298-308 Lafayette Street, CookFox Architects, Kramer Levin, Manhattan Community Board 2, Puck Building, SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District Extension
    Date: 04/17/2013
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