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    LPC Calendars Dyker Heights’ Angel Guardian Home

    Calendaring  •  Dyker Heights, Brooklyn

    Angel Guardian Home, Main Building Image Credit: Brooklyn CB10

    Angel Guardian Home would be first landmark designation in the Dyker Heights neighborhood. On June 30, 2020, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to calendar the designation of the Angel Guardian Home, located at 6301 12th Avenue in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn.  The former orphanage, which encompasses the entire 12th avenue frontage between 63rd and 64th Streets, is composed of four original, completely intact buildings: a central administration building, a nursery building, a reception and intake building, and a laundry building. The designation is sought only for a partial portion of the block, specifically the main building.

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    Tags : Angel Guardian Home, Council Member Carlos Menchaca, Dyker Heights, Guardian Angel Home, Historic Districts Council, Landmarks, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC
    Date:08/03/2020
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Landmarks Holds Hearing on Manida Street HD Designation

    Historic District Designation  •  Hunts Point, Bronx

    Streetscape of Manida Street./Image Credit: LPC

    The proposed designation received support from South Bronx residents and preservation advocates. On May 12, 2020, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on a proposal to designate the Manida Street Historic District in Hunts Point, Bronx. The proposed historic district will be located on Manida Street between Garrison and Lafayette Avenues and would consist of 42 semi-detached, two-story brick houses on both sides of the street. The houses on the block all have a consistent Renaissance Revival style which includes mirror image facades, rounded projecting bays, and ornamentation around the door and windows. The proposed historic district represents a period in the early-20th Century when rapid development occurred in the South Bronx. For CityLand’s prior coverage on the Manida Street Historic District designation process, click here.

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    Tags : Bronx, Council Member Rafael Salamanca Jr., Historic Districts Council, Hunts Point, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Manida Street Historic District
    Date:05/18/2020
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Landmarks Has Concerns with Proposed Four-Story Residence in Brooklyn Heights Historic District

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Brooklyn Heights Historic District

    Proposed design of new building on Middagh Street with 56 Middagh Street on the left./Image Credit: Pratt + Black Architects

    The proposed building features a ground floor garage that is modeled off of storefronts in the historic district. On January 14, 2020, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing for a Certificate of Appropriateness to construct a new four-story residential building on a partially vacant L-shaped lot on Middagh Street, located within the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. The short part of the lot fronts Middagh Street to north and the long part of the lot extends into the rear yard. Currently, there is a three-story residential building, 56 Middagh Street, on the east end of the short part of the lot. There is a 25’ by 25’ foot vacant space currently used as parking located between 56 Middagh Street and a one-story garage that belongs to 45 Hicks Street. The proposed building will be built on this space. Both the existing adjacent building and the proposed building will have the same owner.

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    Tags : 56 Middagh Street, Brooklyn Heights Association, Brooklyn Heights Historic District, certificate of appropriateness, Historic Districts Council, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Pratt and Black, Society for the Architecture of the City
    Date:01/29/2020
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Landmarks Approves New Building Construction in Bedford Stuyvesant/Expanded Stuyvesant Heights HD, Brooklyn

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

    Proposed rendering of 324 Macon Street as it appears on the Macon Street streetscape./Image Credit: Gerald J. Caliendo Architects

    The applicants and Landmarks staff will work together to modify details for the proposed building. On December 3, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to approve a certificate of appropriateness to construct a new three-story residential building on a vacant lot at 324 Macon Street, Brooklyn, located within the Bedford Stuyvesant/Expanded Stuyvesant Heights Historic District.

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    Tags : 324 Macon Street, Bedford Stuyvesant/Expanded Stuyvesant Heights HD, Brooklyn Community Board 3, Gerald J. Caliendo Architects, Historic Districts Council, Landmarks Preservation Commission
    Date:12/18/2019
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Landmarks Rescind Landmarks Designation Status of Former School

    Landmarks Designation Rescission  •  Grand Concourse, Bronx

    Public School 31 in 2014 before its demolition./Image Credit: Google Maps

    The landmarked building featured many late Gothic details. On December 10, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to rescind the individual landmark designation of a vacant lot, located at 425 Grand Concourse, Bronx. The lot was formerly the location of Public School 31, which was demolished in 2015.

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    Tags : 425 Grand Concourse, Bronx, Chair Sarah Carroll, Commissioner John Gustafsson, Grand Concourse, Historic Districts Council, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Public School 31
    Date:12/11/2019
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Court of Appeals Allows Historic Clock to be Closed to the Public and Converted

    346 Broadway  •  Tribeca, Manhattan

    346 Broadway. Image Credit: Brett.

    Landmarks acted within its authority when it approved the LLC’s certificate of appropriateness. On March 28, 2019, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that the Certificate of Appropriateness granted the Landmarks Preservation Commission for 346 Broadway in 2014 was proper, reversing two lower courts’ decision. In 1987, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated 346 Broadway as an interior landmark. The designation included the building’s banking hall and the 13th floor clock tower, which houses a mechanical clock. At the time of designation, the City owned the building and the clock tower was opened to the public for weekly tours.

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    Tags : 346 Broadway, Historic Districts Council, Landmarks, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Law Department
    Date:04/09/2019
    Category : Court Decisions
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