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    Challenge to Denial of Hardship Application Fails on Appeal

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Upper East Side, Manhattan

    City and Suburban Homes Company, First Avenue Estate. Image credit: LPC.

    Developer claimed that Commissioners irrationally and prejudicially analyzed hardship application, and that designation amounted to an unconstitutional taking. In 1990, Landmarks designated the City and Suburban Homes Company, First Avenue Estate an individual City landmark. The block-sized development is bounded East 64th and 65th Streets and York and First Avenues. Built between 1819 and 1915, it was constructed to provide high-quality housing to low-income New Yorkers in an alternative to crowded, poorly ventilated tenement buildings. The First Avenue Estate is one of only two full-block light court tenement complexes in the City. (read more…)

    Tags : Board of Estimate, Court, Court Decisions, First Avenue Estate, Landmarks, Stahl York Avenue, Supreme Court
    Date:06/18/2018
    Category : Court Decisions
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    Third Version of Additions to Buildings that Once Housed Artists’ Studios Approved

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Greenwich Village, Manhattan

    827-831 Broadway rendering. Image credit: LPC.

    Revised application redesigned and lowered addition over historic facades, shifted bulk of new floor area to third, non-designated building. On May 15, 2018, Landmarks considered and approved additions to 827 and 831 Broadway, collectively designated an individual City landmark as the 827-831 Broadway Buildings. The Commission held a hearing on additions to the buildings on January 9, 2018, and considered a revised proposal on April 24, 2018. Landmarks voted to designate the buildings in October 2017, both for their 19th-century palazzo-inspired architecture, and for their 20th-century history, when they housed the homes and studios of artists associated with Abstract Expressionist movement, particularly Willem De Kooning. (read more…)

    Tags : 827-831 broadway, Landmarks, Landmarks Preservation Commission
    Date:06/06/2018
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Support Voiced for Designation of Central Harlem District

    Designation Hearing  •  Harlem, Manhattan

    Central Harlem West 130-132nd Historic District. Image credit: LPC.

    164-building potential district characterized by 19th-century residential architecture, and cultural and political history.            Landmarks held a public hearing on the potential designation of the Central Harlem West 130-132nd Historic District at its meeting on April 17, 2018. The district is composed of the block interiors on 130th, 131st, and 132nd Streets between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. The district includes approximately 164 buildings, chiefly built during a brief period of development in the final decades of the 19th century. The speculative rowhouses were constructed in architectural styles appealing to the middle class of the period, primarily Neo Grec, interspersed Queen Anne, Renaissance Revival, and Romanesque Revival. Landmarks Executive Director Sarah Carroll stated that the proposed designation had come about through Landmarks’ study of properties associated with African-American history and the civil rights movement. (read more…)

    Tags : Central Harlem, designation, Friendship Baptist Church, Friendship House, Landmarks, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NAACP, New Amsterdam Musical Association, rowhouses
    Date:05/07/2018
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Commissioners Fail to Find Consensus on Revised Proposal for Addition to Individual Landmark

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Greenwich Village, Manhattan

    827-831 Broadway Rendering. Image credit: LPC.

    Proposed additions to recently designated buildings, known for housing artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement, reduced in visibility with modifications to design to better relate to existing building. On April 24, 2018, the Landmarks Preservation Commission considered a revised proposal to create a rooftop addition to the 827-831 Broadway Buildings, an individual City landmark designated in October of 2017. The buildings were designated partially for its architecture as proto-cast-iron commercial architecture, designed by Griffith Thomas and inspired by Italian palazzi, and also for their association with 20th century art. Willem De Kooning lived and worked in 831 Broadway, and other artists that lived in the buildings included Elaine de Kooning, Larry Poons, Jules Olitsky, and Paul Jenkins. (read more…)

    Tags : 827-831 broadway, designation, Landmarks, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Meenakshi Srinivasan
    Date:04/30/2018
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Early Purpose-Built Kindergarten and Associated Deaconess Home Enter Designation Process

    Designation Calendaring  •  Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

    Hans S. Christian Memorial Kindergarten. Image credit: LPC.

    Two adjoining buildings from different eras with shared history to be considered together as an individual City landmark. Landmarks voted to add two buildings to its calendar for consideration as individual landmarks at the Commission’s April 10, 2018, meeting. The buildings are the 238 President Street House and the adjoining Hans S. Christian Memorial Kindergarten at 236 President Street. The structures stand in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn. (read more…)

    Tags : Carroll Gardens, French Renaissance Revival, House, Kindergarten, Landmark Designation, Landmarks, President Street
    Date:04/23/2018
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Two Far Rockaway Civic Structures Identified as Potential Individual Landmarks

    Designation Calendaring  •  Far Rockaway, Queens

    Engine Companies 264 & 328, Ladder Company 13. Image Credit: LPC

    Early 20th century buildings, a firehouse and police precinct house, reflect civic development of Far Rockaway. On March 13, 2018, Landmarks voted to add two buildings in Far Rockaway, Queens, to its calendar. The buildings are the Firehouse, Engine Companies 264 & 328, Ladder Company 13 at 16-15 Central Avenue, and the 53rd Precinct Police Station, at 16-12 Mott Avenue.  A seaside resort community through most of the 19th century, Far Rockaway was not linked to the rest of Queens until the construction of a railway bridge across Jamaica Bay in 1888, when the first year-round residences were constructed. (read more…)

    Tags : Big House, Downtown Far Rockaway, Far Rockaway, Firehouse, Landmarks, LPC, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Precinct Station
    Date:04/17/2018
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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