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    City Council Holds Another Hearing on the Parks Capital Process

    Parks Capital Process  •  Citywide

    Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver Image Credit: John McCarten

    Other agencies still missing from Council’s hearing on Park’s capital process. On November 12, 2019, the City Council’s Committee on Parks, Committee on Contracts, and Subcommittee on Capital Budget held a joint oversight hearing titled “Improving the Efficiency of Parks Department Capital Projects.” The hearing was chaired respectively by Council Members Peter Koo, Ben Kallos and Vanessa L. Gibson. This hearing was held in order to create a dialogue about the state of the capital process. In Fiscal 2020, the Parks Department has 619 active capital projects and anticipates spending almost $2.7 billion. These numbers have steadily increased since Fiscal 2016.

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    Tags : American Institute of Architects, Ben Kallos, center for urban future, City Council, Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, Council Member Ben Kallos, Council Member Peter Koo, Council Member Vanessa Gibson, Lynn Kelly, mitchell silver, New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, New Yorkers for Parks, Parks Department
    Date:12/09/2019
    Category : City Council
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    Addition to American Museum of Natural History on Columbus Avenue Side Approved

    Binding Report  •  Upper West Side, Manhattan
    Museum of Natural History

    Rendering of the interior of the Museum. Image Credit: LPC.

    Approved addition, occupying a quarter acre of parkland, will increase connections for better museum circulation, provide additional space to store collection materials, and allow visitors to watch scientists at work. At its meeting on October 11, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to issue a binding report for the construction of an addition, and associated demolition, to the American Museum of Natural History, an individual landmark on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The addition, to be named the Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation, will be the first significant intervention on the museum campus since the completion of the Rose Center for Earth and Space in 2000. The addition would be sited on the western side of the museum, and would create new Columbus Avenue public entrance. (read more…)

    Tags : American Museum of Natural History, Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan, Commissioner Diana Chapin, Council Member Helen Rosenthal, Landmark West!, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Municipal Art Society, New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Wellington Chen
    Date:10/31/2016
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Commission asks for revisions to controversial redevelopment of Gansevoort Street block

    Certificates of Appropriateness  •  Meatpacking District, Manhattan

    Rendering of proposed development as it would appear when viewed from Whitney Museum. Image credit: BKSK Architects

    Scale and massing of proposed new building and additions require moderation. On February 9, 2016, Landmarks heard the applicants’ response to criticism from those who testified at a public hearing on November 10, 2015, concerning the redevelopment of a block face in the Gansevoort Market Historic District. The work encompasses 46-48, 50, 52-58, 60-68, and 70-74 Gansevoort Street, between Greenwich and Washington Streets. The five buildings comprise three tax lots. The block is diagonally across from the new Whitney Museum.

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    Tags : Adi Shamir-Baron, Andrew Berman, Assemblymember Deborah Glick, Aurora Capital Associates, Commissioner Fred Bland, Commissioner Michael Goldblum, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Council Member Corey Johnson, Gansevoort Market Historic District, Harry Kendall, Higgins Quasebarth, Historic Districts Council, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Meenakshi Srinivasan, New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Real Estate Board of New York, State Senator Brad Hoylman, Wellington Chen
    Date:02/23/2016
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    At Final Backlog Hearing, Testimony Considered on Manhattan Items

    Special Hearing  •  Manhattan
    Landmarks Preservation Commission. Credit: LPC.

    Landmarks Preservation Commission. Credit: LPC.

    The proposed designation of the former Yuengling Brewery Site in East Harlem proved contentious, dividing preservationists and those who wished to see site developed.  On November 12, 2015 the Landmarks Preservation Commission held the final of four special hearings organized to address the backlog of items added to the Commission’s calendar before 2001, but never brought to a vote on designation.  The final hearing consisted of items in Manhattan, occupying Community Boards six through twelve.  Landmarks is expected to make determinations on the items in early 2016.

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    Tags : Bryan Cave, Council Member Ben Kallos, Council Member Mark Levine, Council Member Robert Jackson, Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, Docomomo, Docomomo Tri-State, Historic Districts Council, Janus Property, Manhattan Community Board 12, Manhattan Community Board 6, Manhattan Community Board 9, New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, New York Landmarks Conservancy, Society for the Architecture of the City, Thomas W. Lamb
    Date:11/19/2015
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Applicants in One Chase Manhattan Plaza Redesign Asked to Reconsider Proposal

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Financial District, Manhattan
    One Chase Plaza. Image credit: LPC

    One Chase Plaza. Image credit: LPC

    Project would alter the solid black-granite base to create retail storefronts, and make for a more inviting and accessible plaza. On May 5, 2015, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a hearing on potential alterations to the individually landmarked One Chase Manhattan Plaza at 16 Liberty Street in Lower Manhattan. The designated site consists of a 60-story tower and associated two-and-a-half-acre plaza, designed by the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The project was led by partner Gordon Bunschaft, the same team behind other City landmarks, including the Lever House and the Manufacturer’s Trust Building. The project was completed in 1964 as the headquarters for Chase Manhattan Bank, recently formed by a merger of Chase Bank and the Bank of Manhattan. (read more…)

    Tags : Adi Shamir-Baron, Docomomo, Downtown Alliance, Fred Bland, Historic Districts Council, Kelly Carroll, Kim Vauss, Landmarks Conservancy, Manhattan Community Board 1, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Michael goldblum, Michael Gotkin, Municipal Art Society, New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Skidmore Owings & Merrill
    Date:06/05/2015
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Curb cuts and parking amendments approved

    Text Amendment  •  Citywide

    Text amendment would introduce curb cut prohibitions and limit front yard parking spaces in certain residential districts. On February 24, 2010, the City Planning Commission approved, with modifications, the Department of City Planning’s Residential Streetscape Preservation text amendment. Planning proposed the City-wide amendment in response to community concerns about inappropriate curb cuts and front yard parking spaces in residential districts. Planning seeks to clarify parking requirements and preserve and enhance residential streetscapes.

    The proposed amendment includes a host of modifications such as requiring new parking spaces in all single- and two-family districts to be located within a residential building or to the side or rear of a building. This requirement currently applies to R1 and R2 districts and certain districts in Lower Density Growth Management Areas in Staten Island and the Bronx. In order to ensure that required front yard plantings are of sufficient quality, the amendment would close a loophole that allows narrow strips of plantings located in driveways to count towards the required minimum front yard planting requirements. (read more…)

    Tags : curb cuts, front yard parking spaces, Justice Paul G. Feinman, New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, NYCHA, parking study, Residential Streetscape Preservation Text Amendment, residential streetscapes, The Citizens Housing & Planning Council, the Department of City Planning
    Date:03/15/2010
    Category : City Planning Commission
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