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    Commissioners Vote to Adopt Rules Governing Installation of Public Wi-Fi Kiosks

    Rules Amendment  •  Citywide
    Key kiosk features. Image Credit: LinkNYC.

    Key kiosk features. Image Credit: LinkNYC.

    Following public testimony on proposed rule, it was modified to require that new kiosks in residential historic district go before Landmarks for review, and increased the distance from which a kiosk replacing a pay phone may be sited near another public communications structure. On June 28, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to adopt modifications to existing rules regarding pay phones to account for a Mayoral plan to replace all pay phones with new public communications structures. The new kiosks will provide phone service and free Wi-Fi access, and ability to contact emergency services in an initiative named LinkNYC.  The aluminum-clad kiosks will also possess stations for charging one’s phone and an interactive tablet. The rectangular, eleven-inch-wide kiosks will have a smaller footprint than pay phones, but will be taller, with those displaying advertising over ten feet high. (read more…)

    Tags : Carnegie Hill Neighbors, Citybridge, DoITT, LinkNYC, Mark Silberman, Public Design Commission
    Date:07/11/2016
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Testimony heard on proposed rule regarding installation of Wi-Fi kiosks with digital advertising display

    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. (read 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
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Community Engagement Begins for 86th Street Area BID Formation

    BID Creation  •  Upper East Side, Manhattan
    Councilmember Ben Kallos. Image credit: William Alatriste/NYC Council

    Councilmember Ben Kallos. Image credit: William Alatriste/NYC Council

    The proposed Business Improvement District would be the 73rd BID established in New York City.  On November 6, 2015, City Council member Ben Kallos issued a press release regarding the launch of a push to create a Business Improvement District on East 86th Street in Manhattan.  The press release notes that a “District Needs Survey” was mailed out to community businesses, residents, and property owners last week.

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    Tags : Assembly Member Dan Quart, Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright, Carnegie Hill Neighbors, City Council, City Planning Commission, Council Member Ben Kallos, Department of Small Business Services, East 86th Street BID, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, Senator Liz Krueger
    Date:11/09/2015
    Category : Business Improvement Districts
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    Proposal for New Tower on Church Property Proves Controversial

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Upper East Side, Manhattan
    Proposed Rendering of 1010 Park Avenue, Manhattan. Image Credit: LPC.

    Proposed Rendering of 1010 Park Avenue, Manhattan. Image Credit: LPC.

    Park Avenue Christian Church, which would demolish annex for mixed-use development in partnership with Extell, claimed finding was necessary to maintain historic church fabric and its religious mission. On October 21, 2014, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a hearing on a proposal for the demolition of an existing church annex and the construction of a new 15-story building on property belonging to and adjacent to the Park Avenue Christian Church at 1010 Park Avenue in Manhattan. The property lies in the Park Avenue Historic District, designated in 2014. To the south of the annex stands a 13-story apartment building completed in 1916 to designs by architect Emery Roth, an architect renowned for his hotels and apartment buildings. The development would be done in conjunction with Extell. (read more…)

    Tags : Beyer Blinder Belle, Carnegie Hill Neighbors, Council Member Daniel Garodnick, Extell, Historic Districts Council, Kelly Carroll, Kramer Levin, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Liz Krueger, Manhattan Community Board 8, Park Avenue Christian Church
    Date:11/04/2014
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Guggenheim’s sidewalk food kiosk rejected

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Upper East Side, Manhattan

    Museum sought to have its own food kiosk; claimed it would reduce concentration of food cart vendors outside main entrance. On October 19, 2010, Landmarks rejected a proposal to build a small, curvilinear food kiosk in front of the land-marked Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The Guggenheim and Restaurant Associates, which manages the museum’s Wright Restaurant and its third-floor cafe, proposed building the free-standing kiosk along the Fifth Avenue facade underneath the museum’s cantilevered overhang. Guggenheim representatives claimed that the kiosk would alleviate the congestion caused by the high number of sidewalk food carts that congregate in front of the museum.

    Guggenheim CEO Mark Steglitz testified that the museum wanted to provide patrons and neighbors with high-quality food at a lower price than its indoor options. Steglitz said the kiosk, by limiting demand, would also minimize the “carnival like atmosphere” outside the museum created by street vendors. He also said it would complement the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building, “not compete with it.” (read more…)

    Tags : 1071 Fifth Avenue, Andre Kikoski, Carnegie Hill Neighbors, Docomomo, Solomon r. Guggenheim Museum
    Date:11/06/2010
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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