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    Search results for "Certificate of Appropriateness"

    Landmarks Holds Hearing on Upper West Side Church Adaptation

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Upper West Side, Manhattan

    Proposed Rendering of 361 Central Park West Image Credit: Landmarks

    Upper West Side community weary on rooftop addition and removal of stained glass windows. On March 3, 2020, the Landmarks Preservation Commission heard an application by the Children’s Museum of Manhattan for a Certificate of Appropriateness regarding 361 Central Park West, a Beaux Arts classical style church overlooking Central Park. The building is located on the northwest corner of Central Park West and 96th Street in Manhattan. Approval of the application would permit adaptive reuse of the building by facilitating roof additions, window replacements, alterations to entrances, door replacements, signage installation and the excavation of the cellar.

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    Tags : 361 Cenral Park West, certificate of appropriateness, Children's museum of manhattan, Council Member Helen Rosenthal, Council Member Mark Levine, First Church of Christ Scientist, FXCollaborative, Gale brewer, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Robert Rodriguez
    Date: 03/16/2020
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    Land Use Committee Approves New Two-Lot Wide Building on Controversial Site

    City Council  •  ULURP Application  •  SoHo, Manhattan
    Rendering of 146-150 Wooster Street in Manhattan. Image Credit: KUB Capital.

    Rendering of 146-150 Wooster Street in Manhattan. Image Credit: KUB Capital.

    Developers spent months engaging local representatives and neighborhood residents to garner their approval before formally initiating ULURP process.  On January 28, 2016, the City Council Land Use Committee unanimously approved an application to construct a mixed-use building at 146–150 Wooster Street, located in Manhattan’s landmarked SoHo Cast-Iron Historic District.  150 Wooster LLC, the project developer and subsidiary of KUB real estate investment and design firm, is the second owner to attempt to build a new development in place of the existing and unused one-story garage.  In the face of substantial community opposition, the previous site owner’s ULURP application was withdrawn before reaching the City Council.

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    Tags : 150 Wooster Street, City Planning Commission, Council Member Antonio Reynoso, Council Member Donovan Richards, Council Member Margaret Chin, KUB Capital, Land Use Committee, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Manhattan Community Board 2, New York City Council, SoHo-Cast Iron Historical District, Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises
    Date: 02/01/2016
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    CPC Approves Building Conversion in Historic District

    City Planning Commission  •  Special Permit  •  SoHo, Manhattan
    498 Broome Street.  Image credit:  Umberto Squarcia Designs, Inc.

    498 Broome Street. Image credit: Umberto Squarcia Designs, Inc.

    Special permit will allow a vacant mixed-use building in SoHo to convert to residential use.  On February 4, 2015 the City Planning Commission voted to grant a special permit to Goose Mountain NYC, LLC to develop a six-story building at 498 Broome Street in the SoHo Cast Iron Historic District of Manhattan as a residential property.  The permit would allow Use Group 2 residential uses on portions of the ground floor, as well as the second through fifth floors and the penthouse.  The building has been vacant for three years, but previously housed Use Group 6 retail in the ground floor and cellar and an artist’s studio on the upper floors, though not officially designated Joint Live-Work Quarters for Artists.

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    Tags : 498 Broome Street, City Planning Commission, JLWQA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Manhattan Community Board 2, SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District
    Date: 03/06/2015
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    CPC Hears Special Permit Request for New Through-Block Building

    City Planning Commission  •  Application  •  Ladies' Mile, Manhattan
    A model of a proposed building on 7 West 21st Street, New York, NY. Image Credit: MA.com.

    A model of the proposed building on 7 West 21st Street, New York, NY. Image Credit: MA.com.

    Commissioners focused on the building’s sustainability and the proposed parking garage. On January 7, 2015 the City Planning Commission held a public hearing on applications for two special permits for a proposed building at 7 West 21st Street in the Ladies’ Mile Historic District of Manhattan. The proposed building is 185 feet tall, with ground-floor retail and residential units on the upper floors. The permits would allow a waiver of the 150-foot setback requirement and construction of an underground parking garage capable of holding two hundred vehicles.  On October 15, 2013 the Landmarks Preservation Commission granted a Certificate of Appropriateness for the new building.  (See previous CityLand coverage here.)

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    Tags : City Planning Commission, Ladies' Mile Historic District, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Morris Adjimi Architects, Philip Habib & Associates, Rose Associates, Stephen B. Jacobs Group
    Date: 01/13/2015
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    CPC Hears Request to Convert Artists’ Building to Residential Use

    City Planning Commission  •  Application  •  SoHo, Manhattan
    A proposed restoration of 102 Greene Street would restore the missing top two floors, but remove rent protections for artists. Image credit: CityLand

    A proposed restoration of 102 Greene Street would restore the missing top two floors and cast-iron facade, but remove the building’s JLWQA designation. Image credit: CityLand

    Proposed renovation would restore two floors lost to fire and open loft building to non-artist tenants. On December 3, 2014 the City Planning Commission held a public hearing on an application for a special permit for 102 Greene Street in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, Manhattan. The building is three stories, with the Galeria Melissa gallery on the ground floor and two apartments above. The apartments are designated as Joint Live-Work Quarters for Artists (JLWQA), though neither of the current tenants are artists.

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    Tags : 102 Greene Street, Caroline Harris, Chairman Carl Weisbrod, City Planning Commission, Commissioner Irwin Cantor, JLWQA, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Manhattan Community Board 2, SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District
    Date: 12/23/2014
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