logo CityLand
      • Home
      • About CityLand
      • CityLand Sponsors
      • Filings & Decisions
      • Commentary
      • Archive
      • Resources
      • CityLaw
      • Current Issue

    Strong Community Support Voiced for Twin Commercial Buildings which Housed Studio of de Kooning, and other Post-WWII Artists

    Designation Hearing  •  Greenwich Village, Manhattan

    Twin adjoining buildings at 827 and 831 Broadway, Image LPC.

    Attorney for owner threatened to seek demolition through a hardship application should landmarks designate the property and not permit a visible addition. At its meeting on October 17, 2017, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a hearing on the possible individual landmarks designation of two twin adjoining buildings at 827 and 831 Broadway. Completed in 1867, the buildings were designed by architect Griffith Thomas for tobacco-company heir Pierre Lorillard in an Italian palazzi-inspired design. Built in marble with cast-iron piers and columns, the buildings represent a transitional period in Griffith’s career, before he fully embraced the use of cast iron. (read more…)

    Tags : Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan, Council Member Rosie Mendez, Greenberg Traurig, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Municipal Art Society, New York Landmark Conservancy, Senator Liz Krueger, State Senator Brad Hoylman
    Date:10/26/2017
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
    Leave a Comment

    Seven More Buildings Considered for Designation Under East Midtown Initiative

    Designation Hearings  •  Midtown, Manhattan
    East Midtown Initiative

    CitiCorp Center. Image Credit: CityLand

    Items considered at hearing were from three development periods: the pre-Grand Central Terminal Era, the Grand Central/Terminal City Era, and the post-Grand Central/World War II Era. On September 13, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held hearings on the potential designation of seven individual landmarks in Midtown Manhattan. The items heard were among the twelve properties identified as potentially worthy of Landmarks protection in the agency’s Greater East Midtown Initiative. The initiative is part of the mayoral administration’s efforts to strengthen the area as a commercial district with proposed increased density, improvements to transit, and economic growth projects. Landmarks held its first hearing on items identified in the initiative on July 19, 2016. (read more…)

    Tags : Historic Districts Council, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Martin Erdmann Residence, Minnie E. Young Residence, Municipal Art Society, New York Landmark Conservancy, Yale Club of New York City
    Date:10/10/2016
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
    Leave a Comment

    Ford Foundation Atrium and Doors to be Altered for Handicapped Access and Code Compliance

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  East Midtown, Manhattan
    Garden Landscape rendering. Image Credit: Gensler.

    Garden Landscape rendering. Image Credit: Gensler.

    Alterations part of larger renovations that will see greater handicapped accessibility, non-hierarchical office organization, creation of a visitor center, and space for associated non-profits. On April 19 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission considered and approved an application for work to the Ford Foundation Building, at 320 East 43rd Street in Manhattan. The 1967 building is an individual City landmark, and its atrium is also a designated interior landmark. The proposed work, which will alter the entrances, windows, and the atrium, was driven by programmatic needs, the necessity of code compliance, and handicapped accessibility. Currently, certain entrances to the building and portions of the garden are not handicapped-accessible. (read more…)

    Tags : Christabel Gough, Congress Member Carolyn Maloney, Council Member Daniel Garodnick, Docomomo, Ford Foundation, Higgins Quasebarth, Historic Districts Council, Municipal Art Society, New York Landmark Conservancy, Studio Museum Harlem
    Date:05/03/2016
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
    Leave a Comment

    Commission Held First of Four Special Hearings to Address Backlog

    Designation Hearings  •  Citywide
    Landmarks Preservation Commission. Credit: LPC.

    Landmarks Preservation Commission. Credit: LPC.

    Wide support voiced for designation of Coney Island pumping Station; potential extension to Douglaston Historic District and individual designation of Queens Apartment complex and religious structures proved contentious. On October 8, 2015, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held the first of four hearings meant to address the backlog of items on the Commission’s calendar added prior to 2010. Twenty-nine items were considered, in three groupings of multiple items clustered by borough. Each speaker had three minutes to testify for each batch, rather than on individual items. At the meeting, Landmark heard testimony on one batch of items in the Bronx, one in Brooklyn, and one in Queens. (read more…)

    Tags : Christabel Gough, Council Member Mark Treygar, Council Member Rafael Espinal, Councilmember Peter Koo, Historic Districts Council, Ken Fisher, New York Landmark Conservancy, Paul Vallone, Society for the Architecture of the City, State Senator Tony Avella
    Date:10/20/2015
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
    Leave a Comment

    Demolition of Two Non-Historic Structures, New Canopy, Proposed for Seaport Pier

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  South Street Seaport, Manhattan
    Architect's rendering of the Pier 17 proposal. Image credit: SHoP Architects

    Architect’s rendering of the Pier 17 proposal. Image credit: SHoP Architects

    The demolitions would make new Pier building a free-standing structure, with four visible facades, and a new canopy that would allow for all-weather use of roof space. On August 4, 2015, representatives of the Howard Hughes Corporation appeared at the Landmarks Preservation Commission to propose revisions to their planned redevelopment of Piers 16 and 17 in the South Street Seaport Historic District. Landmarks in 2012 approved an application by SHoP Architects, after multiple hearings, to replace the 1985 mall that previously stood on the site. The pier, at 89 South Street, lies in Manhattan’s South Street Seaport Historic District.

    (read more…)

    Tags : City Club of New York, Downtown Alliance, Howard Hughes Corporation, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, New York Landmark Conservancy, Pier 16, Pier 17, REBNY, Save Our Seaport, SHoP Architects, South Street Seaport Historic District
    Date:08/12/2015
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
    Leave a Comment

    Subscribe To Free Alerts


    Follow Us on Social Media

    twitterfacebook

    Search

    Search by Category

      City Council
      CityLaw
      City Planning Commission
      Board of Standards & Appeals
      Landmarks Preservation Commission
      Economic Development Corporation
      Housing Preservation & Development
      Administrative Decisions
      Court Decisions
      Filings and Decisions
      CityLand Profiles

    Search by Date

    © 1997-2010 New York Law School | 185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013 | 212.431.2100 | Privacy | Terms | Code of Conduct | DMCA | Policies
     

    Loading Comments...