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    Landmarks Calendars Five Sites For Designation Near Gowanus Canal

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Calendaring  •  Gowanus, Brooklyn

    The Gowanus Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station. Image Credit: NYC LPC

    The buildings all hold a connection to the Gowanus Canal’s industrial history. On June 25, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to calendar five buildings in Gowanus section of Brooklyn for potential designation as individual landmarks. The five buildings – the Gowanus Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station and Gate House, the Somers Brothers Tinware Factory (later American Can Company), Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) Central Power Station Engine House, Montauk Paint Manufacturing Company Building and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Rogers Memorial Building. All of the buildings hold a connection to the Gowanus Canal’s industrial history. (more…)

    Tags : gowanus canal, landmark calendaring
    Date: 08/19/2019
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    Landmarks Holds Public Hearing on Tin Pan Alley Designation

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Hearing  •  Flatiron District, Manhattan

    Nos. 47 – 55 West 28th Street were the home of many sheet music publishers in the 1890s and 1900s. Image Credit: NYC LPC

    The designation received strong public support despite objections from the owner. On April 30, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing to designate five buildings located at 47 – 55 West 28th Street collectively known as “Tin Pan Alley.” Landmarks calendared the five buildings on March 12, 2019. The street was the home of sheet music publishers in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. The street received its moniker from the sound of different pianos playing from the various publishers along the block, which collectively sounded like tin pans banging together. For CityLand’s prior coverage of the Tin Pan Alley designation process, click here. (more…)

    Tags : 47 West 28th street, 49 West 28th street, 51 West 28th Street, 53 West 28th street, 55 West 28th street, Designation Hearing, Landmarks, landmarks designation, Tin Pan Alley
    Date: 06/06/2019
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    Landmarks Holds Designation Public Hearing for Seven Broadway Buildings

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Landmark Designation  •  Union Square, Manhattan

    Five of the seven buildings considered for designation. Image Credit: Google Maps

    Residents divided between bureaucratic concerns and a desire for a larger historic district. On December 4, 2018, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held public hearings for the individual landmark designation of seven buildings on Broadway south of Union Square. The buildings are located at 817 Broadway, 826 Broadway, 830 Broadway, 832 Broadway, 836 Broadway, 840 Broadway, and 841 Broadway. (more…)

    Tags : Landmark Designation, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Union Square
    Date: 12/10/2018
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    Designations of Two Individual Landmarks Overturned by Council

    City Council  •  Landmarks Designation  •  City Island, Bronx

    Booth House

    Landmarks’ designations of two residential buildings on City Island rejected due to objections of local council member. On March 12, 2018, the City Council’s Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Siting & Maritime Uses voted against upholding the individual landmark designations of two residential buildings on City Island in the Bronx. The buildings are the Samuel H. and Mary T. Booth House at 30 Centre Street, and the Captain John H. Stafford House, at 95 Pell Place. Both houses were unanimously designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on November 28, 2017. (more…)

    Tags : Booth House, City Council, designation, Landmarks, Stafford House
    Date: 03/30/2018
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    Landmarks Denies Plan to Reinstate Pre-Designation Building Permit for Rooftop Addition

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Chelsea, Manhattan

    Previous and modified proposals for 339 West 29th Street. Image credit: LPC

    Despite reductions in addition’s scale and visibility, and promises to install a diorama commemorating escape of abolitionists from Draft Riots mob, Commissioners determined that any rooftop interventions were inappropriate. At its meeting on May 23, 2017, the Landmarks Preservation Commission disposed of an application for facade alterations and rear and roof additions to 339 West 29th Street in the Lamartine Place Historic District. In the 19th century, the building was home to prominent abolitionists Abigail and James Sloan Gibbons, and is the only documented stop on the Underground Railroad in New York City. During the Draft Riots that engulfed the City in 1863, a mob attacked and set fire to the building, and the occupants escaped via rooftops to a nearby relative’s home. (more…)

    Tags : Assembly Member Richard Gottfried, C3D Architecture, Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan, Commissioner Michael Goldblum, Lamartine Place Historic District, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Marvin Mitzner
    Date: 06/08/2017
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