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    Landmarks Approves New Plans for Garage Buildings in Bedford Stuyvesant HD

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Bedford Stuyvesant/Expanded Stuyvesant Heights Historic District, Brooklyn

    Rendering of 524-536 Halsey Street in Brooklyn. Image Credit: The Brooklyn Company/LPC.

    The new plans address many concerns that Landmarks and community members had with the previously approved plans. On January 8, 2018, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to approve new plans for a set of 20th century utilitarian buildings at 524-536 Halsey Street in the Bedford Stuyvesant/Expanded Stuyvesant Heights Historic District in Brooklyn. Both buildings were most recently used as garages. One building is a three-story Queen Anne style which the applicant proposes to rehabilitate and alter for residential uses. The other is currently a one-story garage that would be demolished and replaced with a four story building, also used for residences.  The application came just one and a half years after Landmarks had approved the last owner’s plans for the buildings, despite opposition from area residents and the Community Board about the project’s scale and design. To read CityLand’s coverage of the  hearings on the previous plans, click here. (read more…)

    Tags : 524-536 Halsey Street, Bedford Stuyvesant/Expanded Stuyvesant Heights HD, certificate of appropriateness, Landmarks Preservation Commission
    Date:02/19/2019
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Landmarks Sides with Residents Against Changes to Stand-Alone Mansion-House in Stuyvesant Heights Historic District

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Stuyvesant Heights Historic District, Brooklyn

    Rendering of proposed four-story residential building (center) at 375 Stuyvesant Avenue in Brooklyn; View from Decatur Street. Image Credit: LPC/DXA Studio

    Applicants failed to convince Landmarks Commissioners on the appropriateness of the project. On October 2, 2018, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on a certificate of appropriateness for the construction of a four-story residential building at 375 Stuyvesant Avenue, located in the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District in Brooklyn. The applicants proposed to demolish and reconstruct an existing garage on a different portion of the lot to make room for the proposed building. (read more…)

    Tags : 375 Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn, certificate of appropriateness, Stuyvesant Heights Historic District, Stuyvesant Heights mansion
    Date:11/26/2018
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Proposed Office Building Too Ambitious for DUMBO

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  DUMBO, Brooklyn

    Rendering of proposed building at 29-37 Jay Street in Brooklyn. Image Credit: LPC/Marvel Architects

    Landmarks Preservation Commission sends applicants back to the drawing board. On September 25, 2018, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on an application for a certificate of appropriateness to demolish an existing 2-story brick warehouse building located at 29-37 Jay Street, at the northeast corner of Jay and Plymouth Streets in Brooklyn, within the DUMBO Historic District. The application calls for a proposed new 11-story office building at the location made almost entirely with glass. To read CityLand coverage on the designation of the DUMBO Historic District, click here. (read more…)

    Tags : 29-37 Jay Street, Brooklyn’s DUMBO Historic District, certificate of appropriateness, dumbo
    Date:10/22/2018
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Redevelopment Of Site Of Deadly Explosion Approved After Modifications

      •  East Village, Manhattan

    Rendering of 119-121 Second Avenue. Image credit: LPC.

    Applicants presented a plan with a reduced penthouse and modified storefronts, among other changes, with a bronze plaque memorializing those who lost lives in 2015 gas explosion. On August 7, 2018, Landmarks considered and approved a modified proposal for two lots at 119-121 Second Avenue in the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District. The empty lots, at the corner of East 7th Street, compose a portion of the site of a 2015 explosions, caused by an illegal gas set-up, that led to the deaths of two people, caused multiple injuries and destroyed three buildings. The project’s developers are Nexus Development Group, who acquired the property in 2017. (read more…)

    Tags : 119-121 Second Avenue, certificate of appropriateness, Landmarks
    Date:08/13/2018
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    New Tower Building and School Addition Approved for St. Luke’s in the Field

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Greenwich Village, Manhattan
    Rendering of St. Luke's additions.  Image Courtesy of ABA Studios

    Rendering of St. Luke’s additions. Image Courtesy of ABA Studios

    Applicants simplified the massing of proposed tower building and reduced its height 32 feet from previous proposal. On May 6, 2014, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved proposed work at the campus of St. Luke in the Fields Episcopal Church, located on the western edge of the Greenwich Village Historic District. The approved work includes a new residential tower at a site currently occupied by a parking lot at the corner of Greenwich and Barrow Streets. The work also includes additions to an existing school, which would allow it to expand without relocating.

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    Tags : certificate of appropriateness, Church of St. Luke in the Fields, Greenwich Village Historic District
    Date:06/18/2014
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Addition’s design praised, but not its location

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Chelsea, Manhattan

    Five-story addition proposed for six-story building in Ladies’ Mile. On July 21, 2009, Landmarks considered a certificate of appropriateness for a five-story addition at 33 West 19th Street in the Ladies’ Mile Historic District. Designed by architect Morris Adjmi, the addition would be built on top of a 1903 six-story neo- Renaissance store and loft building.

    Adjmi’s design features a translucent woven metal mesh in front of the addition’s rain wall. The mesh would be suspended from the addition’s cornice, aligning with the existing building’s edge, while the addition’s main facade would be set back four feet. On the addition’s side wall, the mesh would take a brick pattern, and on its main facades the mesh would be layered, creating a shadow effect reminiscent of the building’s original facade. Behind the mesh, balconies at every floor would provide further depth. Adjmi characterized the proposal as “an extension of an existing building in a new language.” (read more…)

    Tags : 33 West 19th Street, certificate of appropriateness, Higgins and Quasebarth, Ladies’ Mile Historic District, Morris Adjmi
    Date:08/15/2009
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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