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    Landmarks to Consider Designation of Waldorf-Astoria Interiors

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Calendaring  •  East Midtown, Manhattan
    Waldorf-Astoria Interior. Image Credit LPC.

    Waldorf-Astoria Interior. Image Credit LPC.

    Art Deco lobbies, galleries, staircase, a ballroom and their connecting spaces over three floors of iconic hotel to be considered for interior landmark status. On November 1, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission added interior spaces of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel at 301 Park Avenue to its calendar, the first formal step in the path to designation. The 1931 hotel, designed by the firm Schultze and Weaver, is already an individual City landmark, but its interiors are unprotected. The proposed designation encompasses select spaces on ground floor, first floor, and third floor, as well as the connecting spaces between them. (more…)

    Tags : Anbang, Fred Bland, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
    Date: 11/14/2016
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    New Six-Story-Plus-Setback Building Proposed For West Broadway Site

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Certificate of Appropriateness  •  SoHo, Manhattan

    Rendering of 430 West Broadway in Manhattan.

    Morris Adjmi-designed building would replace three-story commercial structure built in 1986. On June 12, 2018, Landmarks held a hearing on a proposal to construct a new building at 430 West Broadway in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. The lot is currently occupied by a three-story commercial structure built in 1986 and redesigned in 1997 to plans by the firm of Greenberg Farrow. The proposal would see the demolition of the existing building, and the construction of a new design by Morris Adjmi Architects, that would rise to six stories at the streetwall, with an additional setback story. (more…)

    Tags : Barbara Zay, Christabel Gough, Fred Bland, Higgins Quasebarth, Historic District Council, Manhattan Community Board 2, Morris Adjmi Architects, Society for the Architecture of the City
    Date: 06/26/2018
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    Master Plan for Future Adaptations to West Side Powerhouse Approved

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Certificate of Appropriateness  •  West Midtown, Manhattan

    Interborough Rapid Transit Company Powerhouse at 855 11th Avenue in Manhattan. Image Credit: LPC.

    To facilitate the continued use of the former Interborough Rapid Transit Company Powerhouse as Con Edison Steam plant, plan adopted to allow for rooftop mechanical equipment and the creation of entrances for installing equipment. On January 9, 2018, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (“Landmarks”) voted to approve a master plan presented by Consolidated Edison (“Con Edison”) for the recently designated Interborough Rapid Transit Company Powerhouse at 855 11th Avenue on Manhattan’s West Side. The block-sized Beaux-Arts building, with its exterior designed by Stanford White, was built under the influence of the City Beautiful movement, bringing classical grandeur to the civic experience. Built to provide electricity to the Interborough Rapid Transit’s subway system, the plant is now owned by Con Edison, which operates the building as a steam-generating plant.     (more…)

    Tags : Con Edison, Fred Bland, Historic Districts Council, Interborough Rapid Transit Company Powerhouse, John Gustafsson, Manhattan Community Board 4, Mark Silberman, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Michael Devonshire
    Date: 01/29/2018
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    Bedford Historic District Unanimously Designated

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation  •  Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
    Map of the approved Bedford Historic District. Image credit: LPC

    Map of the approved Bedford Historic District. Image credit: LPC

    Approximately 800-building district is primarily characterized by residential architecture from the late 19th century. On December 8 2015, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to designate the Bedford Historic District, composed of approximately 800 buildings and roughly bounded by Bedford, Nostrand, Putnam, Tompkins and Marcy Avenues, and Monroe, Fulton, and Halsey Streets in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The area mostly consists of residential buildings constructed between 1870 and 1900, both rowhouses and small apartment buildings, in a variety of the typical styles of the area, including Queen Anne, Italianate, neo-Grec, and Renaissance Revival. Landmarks’ Research Department called the district a “remarkably well-preserved section of Bedford-Stuyvesant.” (more…)

    Tags : Bedford Historic District, Fred Bland, John Gustafsson, Meenakshi Srinivasan
    Date: 12/29/2015
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    Plan by West End Collegiate Church to Develop Adjacent Lot Approved

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Upper West Side, Manhattan  •  Upper West Side, Manhattan
    Architect rendering of the proposed West End Collegiate development. Image credit: CFA

    Architect rendering of the proposed West End Collegiate development. Image credit: CFA

    Demolition of existing building and construction of new residential tower generally supported by community and preservationist organizations. On December 8 2015, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to approve two applications submitted by West End Collegiate Church for the redevelopment of adjoining properties. The sites are currently occupied by the Collegiate School, from whom the church repurchased the property when the school made a decision to relocate. The plan calls for the demolition of the existing building at 260 West 78th Street, called Platten Hall, and to replace it with a new residential tower. The second application entailed the construction of rooftop addition to 378 West End Avenue, with other alterations to the building. The sites to be redeveloped lie within the West End-Collegiate Historic District Extension. Restoration work to the historic church and school, an individual landmark, was not included in the application, and will be handled at staff level. (more…)

    Tags : Adi Shamir-Baron, Bill Higgins, CookFox Architects, Fred Bland, Higgins Quasebarth, Landmark West!, Meenakshi Srinivasan, New York Landmarks Conservancy, Rick Cook, West End Collegiate Church, West End-Collegiate Historic District Extension
    Date: 12/21/2015
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