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    Landmarks Approves New 14-story Tower in Historic District

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Ladies' Mile, Manhattan

    Project will entail the demolition of 1961 office and warehouse building occupied by the Catholic Medical Mission Board. On December 16, 2014, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to approve an application for a new building at 8 West 17th Street in the Ladies’ Mile Historic District. The site is currently occupied by a 3-story 1961 commercial building designed by the firm Belfatto and Pavarino, known mostly for their ecclesiastical architecture.

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    Tags : 8 West 17th Street, Beyer Blinder Belle, Catholic Medical Mission Board, Historic Districts Council, Ladies' Mile Historic District, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Manhattan Community Board 5, Meenakshi Srinivasan, New York Landmarks Conservancy, REBNY, Richard Southwick
    Date:01/09/2015
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Designation Supported by Community, Preservationists, and REBNY [UPDATED]

    Designation Hearing  •  Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
    The rowhouses of Chester Court get closer to designation as a historic district.  Image credit:  Brownstoner

    The rowhouses of Chester Court get closer to designation as a historic district. Image credit: Brownstoner

    Faux-Tudor 1915 development consisting of 18 buildings takes step toward designation. On November 25, 2014, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a hearing on potential designation of Chester Court as a historic district. The proposed district comprises of 18 two-and-a-half story faux-Tudor dwellings built in 1914 and 1915 in two facing rows near Prospect Park’s eastern edge by developer Brighton Building Company. The buildings were designed by former Brooklyn Commissioner of Buildings Peter J. Collins, who was also the company’s president. Landmarks voted to add the district to its designation calendar on October 28. (read more…)

    Tags : Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Chester Court Historic District, Historic Districts Council, Mathieu Eugene, Meenakshi Srinivasan, REBNY
    Date:12/22/2014
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Tear Down the Chrysler Building?

    Anthony C. Wood
    Anthony Wood

    Anthony Wood

    Save our skyline. If not, tear down the Chrysler building and demolish the Empire State Building. If action isn’t taken these stars of the New York City skyline will be permanently eclipsed. If the public can’t see them, why preserve them? Even the preservation resistant Real Estate Board of New York would likely gasp at the notion of demolishing these two iconic New York landmarks. “The view of the New York skyline is nationally and internally renowned,” so stated Judge Richard McGill in a ruling against a Weehawken project that would have blocked it. The presence in the skyline of the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building are as quintessentially New York as Central Park or the Statue of Liberty. The public can still feast their eyes on them from multiple vantage points, whether from the approaches to New York City or from its sidewalks. How much longer will that be the case? (read more…)

    Tags : Mayor Bill de Blasio, REBNY
    Date:08/07/2014
    Category : Commentary
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    REBNY Issues New Report on Landmarking and Housing Production

    Landmarks/Affordable Housing  •  Citywide
    The Research Department undertakes projects to investigate current residential issues of importance to the industry. Image Credit: REBNY

    REBNY undertakes projects to investigate current residential issues in NYC. Image Credit: REBNY

    REBNY report shows that housing production, particularly affordable housing, is drastically lower in landmarked areas in the five boroughs. In 2013, the Real Estate Board of New York conducted a study which showed that nearly 28 percent of Manhattan is landmarked and that fewer than 2 percent of new housing units built in Manhattan over a ten-year time period (2003-2012) were constructed on landmarked properties. On July 1, 2014, REBNY released a new report which analyzed properties and new housing activity in the other four boroughs over the same time period. REBNY found that although there are not as many landmark designations as in Manhattan, the creation of housing and affordable housing is also “sharply curtailed on landmarked properties located in those boroughs.” (read more…)

    Tags : affordable housing, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Mayor Bill de Blasio, REBNY
    Date:07/02/2014
    Category : Real Estate Board of New York
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    REBNY: Improve the City’s Landmarks Designation Process

    Steven Spinola

    Steven Spinola, president of REBNY

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission’s (LPC) process for designating New York City historic districts is being used more and more to take the place of zoning.  The designation of historic districts has been pursued to promote many different agendas: to address issues of height and scale, to stop new development and to limit development on vacant or near-vacant sites by purposefully including these sites within the boundaries of historic districts.  These objectives are contrary to the intent of the NYC Landmarks Law and touch on actions specifically disallowed by that law, such as limiting the height and bulk of buildings and other characteristics governed by zoning regulations.

    This continuing drift toward misusing the landmarks law as a planning tool to limit change across entire neighborhoods is evident in the remarks by Otis Pearsall, a noted preservationist, at the 2011 Fitch Forum symposium on the history of preservation law:

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    Tags : Real Estate Board of New York, REBNY, SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, Steven Spinola
    Date:09/07/2012
    Category : Commentary
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