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    Threatened Mansion Designated Two Weeks after Calendaring

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Hearing; Designation  •  Sunset Park Property

    Maurice T. Lewis House. Image credit: LPC

    Turn-of-the-century mansion, identified as part of Sunset Park survey, was calendared as a last-minute addition to agenda two weeks prior to hearing, followed immediately by designation. Landmarks voted to designate the Maurice T. Lewis House, at 404 55th Street in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood, immediately following a public hearing on March 6, 2018. Landmarks had only added the item to its calendar two weeks prior, as a last-minute addition to the day’s agenda. (more…)

    Tags : Council Member Carlos Menchaca, designation, Designation Hearing, Landmarks, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Lewis House, Maurice T. Lewis House, Nydia Velazquez
    Date: 03/19/2018
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    New York Public Library Main Reading Room Officially Enters Designation Process [UPDATE: Designation Approved]

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Calendaring  •  Midtown, Manhattan

    New York Public Library Reading Room. Image Credit: NYPL.

    UPDATE: Landmarks voted to designate the interior at its meeting August 8, 2017. Commissioner Adi Shamir-Baron spoke of the “rare condition of two block’s worth of interior space,” with 50-foor ceilings. She said the interiors remind us of the meaning of civic space, as a place that “honors and elevates the spirit of the individual and the collective.”

    Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan stated that designation as an imperative step in Landmarks’ mission, that would preserve and protect an important part of one of the “City’s finest public civic institutions.” She thanked the New York Public Library’s leadership for their stewardship of the space.

    Commissioners voted unanimously to designate the individual landmark.

    Original article below:

    If designated, reading and catalog rooms would join New York Public Library Building exterior, and Main Lobby and other interiors, as City landmarks. On June 6, 2016, Landmarks voted to add the Main Reading and Catalog Room of the at 476 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan to its calendar, officially commencing the process for designation as a potential interior City landmark. The exterior of the building, as well as the Main Lobby, third floor central hall, and two staircases, are individual and interior landmarks already. The firm of Carrere & Hastings won an architectural competition to design the Library in 1897, with a Beaux-Arts plan. The library opened to the public in 1911.

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    Tags : Carrere & Hastings, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Meenakshi Srinivasan, New York Public Library
    Date: 08/16/2017
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    Waldorf-Astoria Interiors Proceed Toward Designation

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Hearing  •  East Midtown, Manhattan
    Waldorf-Astoria

    The Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Image Credit: LPC.

    Speakers at hearing on designation lavish praise on quality and significance of hotel’s opulent Art Deco interior spaces. On January 24, 2017, Landmarks held a hearing on the potential designation of certain interior spaces in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, at 301 Park Avenue in Manhattan. The exterior of the hotel, with its block-sized footprint, was designated an individual landmark in 1993. Landmarks officially added the interiors to its calendar on November 1, 2006.  The specific interiors in the potential designation were identified by Landmarks staff as the most important spaces, as well as the corridors that connect them. The hotel was designed by the firm Schultze and Weaver, with partner Lloyd Morgan overseeing the project. (more…)

    Tags : Anbang, Andrew Dolkart, New York Landmarks Conservancy, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
    Date: 02/08/2017
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    Council Votes to Alter Landmarks Law by Establishing Timelines for Designation

    City Council  •  Landmarks Law  •  Citywide
    Councilmember David Greenfield, chair of the Committee on Land Use . Image credit: William Alatriste/New York City Council

    Councilmember David Greenfield, chair of the Committee on Land Use . Image credit: William Alatriste/New York City Council

    Peter Koo and David Greenfield-sponsored bill was supported by Real Estate industry and vehemently opposed by preservationists. On June 8, 2016, the full City Council voted to approve a bill amending the City’s Landmark Law following a Land Use Committee meeting on June 7.

    The legislation, Introduction 775, mandates that Landmarks vote on an item for designation as an individual, interior, or scenic landmark within one year of holding a public hearing. If the Commission does not hold a vote within the 12-month time span, the item will be removed from the Commission’s calendar. The Commission may extend the time frame by another 12 months with the owner’s concurrence if there is sufficient need. For historic districts, the Commission must take action within 24 months of the district’s initial calendaring. For all items that have been calendared prior to the law’s passage, the Commission must take action within 18 months of the law’s effective date, with a provision for a further 12-month extension with the owner’s consent. (more…)

    Tags : Council Member Ben Kallos, Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick, Council Member David G. Greenfield, Council Member Inez Barron, Council Member Rosie Mendez, Councilmember Peter Koo, Historic Districts Council, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Michael Slattery, Municipal Art Society, REBNY
    Date: 06/15/2016
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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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