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    Local Residents Voice Support for Proposed Park Terrace West Historic District

    Landmarks Designation Hearing  •  Inwood, Manhattan

    Houses on West 217th Street from the proposed historic district. Image Credit: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

    Community voiced support of preservation of suburban character after neighborhood rezoning earlier this year. On November 20, 2018, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation of the Park Terrace West-West 217th Street Historic District in the Inwood section of Manhattan. The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to calendar the proposed historic district on September 25, 2018. For CityLand’s prior coverage of the Park Terrace West designation process, click here. (read more…)

    Tags : Historic Districts, Inwood, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearing, Manhattan, park terrace west
    Date:12/03/2018
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    New Columbus Avenue Development Approved after Revisions

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Upper West Side, Manhattan
    Columbus Avenue Development

    Image Credit: BKSK

    Modifications to proposal for eight-story-plus-penthouse structure included revisions to cornice and base, and lowering some floor heights. On September 6, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the demolition of an existing building and a new development at 466 Columbus Avenue in the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. The approved plan will replace an existing structure built in 1894 but heavily altered in intervening years. The site is owned and will be developed by the Roe Corporation.

    At an initial hearing, held on July 19, 2016, the applicants attested that the existing building had been heavily compromised to accommodate different uses including the addition of a third story approved by Landmarks in 2006. The applicants proposed a building with an eight-story streetwall primarily composed of brick and terra cotta, consistent with the district’s traditional masonry, with a painted metal storefront. The seventh floor would be topped with brick corbelling, with the eighth floor set back from the street facade. A metal cornice would project from above the eighth floor. A setback duplex penthouse would be only partially visible from certain oblique public perspectives. (read more…)

    Tags : BKSK Architects, Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan, Columbus Avenue, Commissioner Adi Shamir-Baron, Commissioner Fred Bland, Commissioner Michael Goldblum, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearing, Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District
    Date:09/22/2016
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Subpoena upheld over public hearing statement

    Dept. of Investigation  •  Citywide

    Landmark West! representative altered public official’s statement when she read it during public hearing. Virginia Parkhouse, a Landmark West! representative, allegedly misread a letter from Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer into the record at a Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearing. Stringer subsequently informed Landmarks of the misstatement, Landmarks complained to the Department of Investigation, and DOI issued a subpoena to Parkhouse. Parkhouse moved to quash the subpoena, claiming that it interfered with her right to free speech and that DOI was not authorized to subpoena private citizens. The lower court upheld the subpoena and the First Department affirmed. 5 CityLand 129 (Sept. 15, 2008). (read more…)

    Tags : Court of Appeals, First Department, Landmark West!, Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearing, Scott Stringer
    Date:08/15/2009
    Category : Court Decisions
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