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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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    Wide Support for Designation of Early Postmodern Hotel Interiors

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Hearing  •  East Midtown, Manhattan
    United Nations Hotel

    United Nations Hotel. Image Credit: LPC

    Some speakers testified that landmarked space should be expanded to connect bar and lobby as one designated interior. At its meeting on November 22, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission heard testimony on the potential designation of two interior spaces on the first floor of the United Nations Hotel at 1 United Nations Plaza in East Midtown. The interiors under consideration are the Ambassador Grill and the Hotel Lobby, built as part of a hotel and office complex by the United Nations Development Corporation. Both designed by the firm Kevin Roche Dinkeloo Associates. The grill was completed in 1976, and the Lobby in 1983. Landmarks voted to add the interiors to its calendar on September 20, 2016. (more…)

    Tags : Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan, Docomomo, Sarah Carroll, United Nations Development Corporation, United Nations Plaza Hotel
    Date: 12/08/2016
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    Second Hearing Held on Late-19th Century Flushing Church

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Hearing  •  Flushing, Queens
    Bowne Street Community Church

    Bowne Street Community Church. Image Credit: LPC.

    Landmarking of Bowne Street Community Church, originally the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Flushing, opposed by church representatives at second hearing due to misidentification of landmarked lot. On November 15, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a second hearing on the Bowne Street Community Church at 143-11 Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing, Queens. The church was added to Landmarks calendar in 2003, and first heard as part of the Commission’s Backlog Initiative in October 2015. At the backlog hearing, the map incorrectly showed the entire tax lot, including a parking lot and annex was calendared, while only the church portion of the lot had been calendared in 2003. Because there had been no previous public hearing, Landmarks brought the correctly identified lot back for public testimony. (more…)

    Tags : Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan, Commissioner Diana Chapin, Commissioner Wellington Chen, Congresswoman Grace Meng, Council Member Peter Koo, State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky
    Date: 12/06/2016
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    157-Building District South of Washington Square Park Enters Designation Process

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Calendaring  •  Greenwich Village, Manhattan
    Sullivan-Thompson

    Image Credit: LPC

    Originally developed as a residential rowhouse neighborhood, district grew to a mixed-use working class community in the early 20th century. At its meeting on November 1, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to add the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District to its calendar, formally commencing the designation process. The proposed district is composed of approximately 157 buildings south of Washington Square Park and east of Seventh Avenue. It would adjoin the existing SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District to the east, and the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District at its northwest corner.

    The first wave of development in the area took place in the early 19th century when it was built as a residential rowhouse neighborhood. Between the Civil War and the First World War, the area underwent a second period of development which saw the construction of tenement buildings, lofts, and a few institutional structures, including the Church of Saint Anthony of Padua and an associated school. (more…)

    Tags : Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan, Council Member Corey Johnson, Greenwich Village
    Date: 11/08/2016
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    Disco-Era Hotel Interior Enters Designation Process

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Calendaring  •  East Midtown, Manhattan
    United Nations Hotel

    United Nations Hotel. Image Credit: LPC

    Early Postmodern bar and lobby a rare intact example of interior architecture and design from the late 1970s and early 1980s. On September 20 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to add first floor interiors on the United Nations Hotel at 1 United Nations Plaza to its calendar, formally commencing the designation process. The interiors under consideration are the hotel’s lobby and the public areas of the Ambassador Grill. The lobby was completed in 1983, and the grill in 1976. Both were designed by the firm of Kevin Roche Dinkeloo Associates for the United Nations Development Corporation. (more…)

    Tags : Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan, Commissioner Fred Bland, Ford Foundation, United Nations Plaza Hotel
    Date: 10/20/2016
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