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    Support Voiced for Designation of Library’s Main Reading Room

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Hearing  •  Midtown, Manhattan

    Image credit: LPC

    Main reading room and catalog room of New York Public Library’s main branch lauded for both architecture and social significance. On July 18, 2017, Landmarks held a public hearing on the potential designation of the Main Reading Room and Catalog Room of the main branch of the New York Public Library as an interior landmark.  The Carrere & Hasting designed library, whose exterior is designated an individual City landmark, stands at 476 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The building’s main lobby, north and south staircase, and third floor central hall were also designated an interior landmark in 1974. Landmarks voted to add the reading and catalog rooms to its calendar at its meeting on June 6, 2017. (more…)

    Tags : Fifth Avenue, New York Landmarks Conservancy, New York Public Library
    Date: 07/26/2017
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    Queens Colonial-Era Church Enters Designation Process

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Calendaring  •  Elmhurst, Queens

    Old St. James Episcopal Church in Queens. Image Credit: LPC.

    1736 structure is the second-oldest surviving religious building in New York City. On June 27, 2017, Landmarks unanimously voted to add the Old St. James Episcopal Church at 86-02 Broadway in Queens’ Elmhurst neighborhood, to its calendar, officially beginning the designation process. The building is the one of the oldest purpose-built religious structures in the City, second only to the 1694 Friends Meeting House in Flushing, an individual City landmark designated in 1970. (more…)

    Tags : Meenakshi Srinivasan, Old St. James Episcopal Church
    Date: 07/06/2017
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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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    Initiative to Clear Landmarks’ Backlog Concludes; Council Overturns One Designation

    City Council  •  Landmark Designations  •  Citywide

    The Lakeman-Cortelyou-Taylor House in Staten Island. Image Credit: LPC

    Due to objection to landmarking by local council member Steven Matteo, the designation of a Dutch Colonial farmhouse on Staten Island was overturned. On March 28, 2017, the Council Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Siting, and Maritime Uses convened to vote on the final batch of items designated as part of Landmarks’ Backlog Initiative. At the meeting the Subcommittee voted on three items it had held over from its hearing on February 7, 2017. It had delayed the votes for further consideration due to the opposition to landmarking from the owners of the subject properties. (more…)

    Date: 04/10/2017
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    Subcommittee Delays Action on Three Landmark Designations

    City Council  •  Landmark Designations  •  Citywide

    Loew’s 175th Street Theater in Manhattan’s Washington Heights. Image Credit: LPC.

    Six designations sent to full Council where they were ratified; three items held over for further deliberation. On February 27, 2017, City Council’s Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Siting, and Maritime Uses heard testimony and voted on the items designated at the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s last meeting devoted to the backlog initiative. The designated properties were introduced to the Subcommittee by Landmarks’ Lisa Kersavage and Lauren George. The Subcommittee approved designations for six of the items, but laid over three items for further consideration in instances where the property owners objected to designation. The three items not advanced to the Land Use Committee and full Council were the Lakeman-Cortelyou House, the Loew’s 175th Street Theater, and the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Flushing.

    Prior to hearing public testimony, Council Member Steven Matteo discussed the designation of the Lakeman-Cortleyou House in New Dorp, Staten Island. The House dates to the 17th century, with the oldest part of the building constructed of fieldstone, and possesses a gambrel roof. Commissioners at Landmarks were advised that designation would likely be overturned at the Council level, but nonetheless awarded the property landmarks status due to its antiquity and rarity. (more…)

    Tags : Bergdorf Goodman Building, City Council Subcommittee on Landmarks, Council Member Peter Koo, Council Member Steven Matteo, Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, Historic Districts Council, Lakeman House, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Municipal Art Society, Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Flushing
    Date: 03/09/2017
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