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    BSA Renews Construction Permit in Rezoned Area

    Vested Rights  •  Lower East Side, Manhattan
    Robin Kramer testifies before the Board of Standards and Appeals. Image credit: BSA

    Robin Kramer testifies before the Board of Standards and Appeals. Image credit: BSA

    Board recognized a vested right to continue construction.  On June 16, 2015 the Board of Standards and Appeals voted to extend a construction permit to the applicant, 180 Orchard LLC, for a twenty-four story mixed commercial- and community-use building at 180 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  The building will contain retail on the cellar and ground floors, community space on the mezzanine and second floors, and hotel use through the remaining floors.

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    Tags : 180 Orchard Street, Board of Standards and Appeals, Duval & Stachenfeld, vested rights
    Date:09/08/2015
    Category : Board of Standards & Appeals
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    BSA Permits Construction on Unmapped Street

    Permit  •  Charleston, Staten Island
    Edward Lauria testifies before the Board of Standards and Appeals. Image credit: BSA

    Edward Lauria testifies before the Board of Standards and Appeals. Image credit: BSA

    Board approved a new commercial building on satisfying Fire Department requirements.  On July 14, 2015 the Board of Standards and Appeals voted to grant a permit for the construction of a single-story commercial building at 47 Trioka Way in the Special South Richmond Development District of Staten Island.  The building will be concrete block with metal walls and roof, covering 15,120 square feet of floor area divided evenly among ten storage units and contractor’s establishments.

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    Tags : 47 Trioka Way, Board of Standards and Appeals, Edward Lauria, Special South Richmond Development District
    Date:09/02/2015
    Category : Board of Standards & Appeals
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    Appellate Court Upholds BSA Decision on Illegal Penthouse

    Board of Standards and Appeals  •  Chelsea, Manhattan
    339 West 29th Street, Manhattan. Image credit: Picsora

    339 West 29th Street, Manhattan. Image credit: Picsora

    Board was not acting arbitrarily by requiring LPC approval of construction permit for addition to a historic district building.  On February 12, 2013, the Board of Standards and Appeals found they could not reinstate a Department of Buildings construction permit for Petitioner, 339 West 29th Street LLC without prior approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission.  The Board found the permit was revoked in July 2009, and in October 2009 the area containing the work site was designated the Lamartine Historic District.

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    Tags : 339 West 29th Street LLC, Board of Standards and Appeals, Hopper-Gibbons House, Lamartine Historic District, Landmarks Preservation Commission
    Date:05/15/2015
    Category : Court Decisions
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    BSA Grants Permit to Enlarge Special District Building in Brooklyn

    Special Permit  •  Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
    Eric Palatnik testifies before the Board of Standards and Appeals. Image credit: BSA

    Eric Palatnik testifies before the Board of Standards and Appeals. Image credit: BSA

    The Board granted the permit after confirming the neighborhood’s character would not be altered. On March 10, 2015 the Board of Standards and Appeals granted a special permit to Athina Orthodoxou to enlarge a non-complying two-story two-family home at 337 99th Street, in an R4-1 zoning district in the Special Bay Ridge District of Brooklyn.  The Special District was established in 2005 to protect Bay Ridge from high-density development.  (See additional CityLand coverage here.)

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    Tags : 337 99th Street, Board of Standards and Appeals, Special Bay Ridge District
    Date:03/31/2015
    Category : Board of Standards & Appeals
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    BSA denies challenge to twelve-story homeless shelter

    Appeal  •  Chelsea, Manhattan

    Community group argued that proposed homeless shelter did not qualify as a hotel under the zoning resolution. Buildings in 2010 issued the Bowery Residents’ Committee a permit to convert a twelve-story factory building at 127 West 25th Street in Chelsea to a homeless shelter and offices. BRC planned to create a 32-bed chemical dependency crisis center, a 96-bed reception center for the homeless, a 200-bed homeless shelter, and two outpatient counseling programs serving up to 100 individuals. The site is zoned for manufacturing and, prior to applying for the permit, BRC received confirmation from Buildings that the homeless shelter would be considered an as-of-right transient hotel use.

    A group of local residents and business owners, known as the Chelsea Flatiron Coalition, opposed the shelter. The Coalition sued to stop the project, but a lower court stayed the litigation until the Coalition had exhausted its administrative remedies by challenging Buildings’ permit approval at BSA. (read more…)

    Tags : 127 West 25th St., Board of Standards and Appeals, Bowery Residents' Committee, Chelsea Flatiron Coalition
    Date:05/15/2011
    Category : Board of Standards & Appeals
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    New Chambers Street residential building approved

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Tribeca, Manhattan
    Image: Courtesy of Goldstein Hill & West Architects LLP

    Owner altered window and facade details to gain Landmarks approval . On April 12, 2011, Landmarks approved Fishman Holdings’ revised proposal to construct an eight-story building on a vacant lot at 87 Chambers Street in the Tribeca South Historic District. The through-block building will front Reade  Street to the north. The lot had been occupied by a store-and-loft building that  Fishman originally planned to convert to a hotel. The building, however, partially collapsed in 2009 and Buildings ordered Fishman to demolish the remaining structure.

    Fishman in February 2009 presented a plan to build a hotel that closely  followed its conversion proposal. The building would rise six stories, with two additional floors set back fifteen feet. Landmarks approved of the building’s massing and scale, but asked for changes to the facade and window details. 8 CityLand 29 (March 15, 2011). (read more…)

    Tags : 87 Chambers Street, Board of Standards and Appeals, Fishman Holdings', Tribeca South Historic District
    Date:05/15/2011
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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