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    New Development to Surround Interior Landmarked Flushing Theater

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Flushing, Queens

    Current condition of foyer at RKO Keith’s Flushing Theater. Image credit: LPC

    Long-gestating plan for new residential and retail development will require the removal and offsite restoration of salvageable features of interior landmark. On May 16, 2017, Landmarks considered an application to re-authorize a certificate of appropriateness for work to the RKO Keith’s Flushing Theater, an interior City landmark. The Churrigueresque former theater, designed by Thomas Lamb, stands at 135-29 Northern Boulevard in Flushing, Queens. The surrounding structure, which is not landmarked, will be demolished, with only the designated portions of the interior retained. A new, 16-story 269-unit residential and retail building will be built above and around the designated interiors. (read more…)

    Tags : Ayon Studio, Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan, Iconoplast, Mark Silberman, RKO Keith Flushing Theater
    Date:06/07/2017
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    BSA approves variance at RKO Keith Flushing Theater site

    Variance  •  Flushing, Queens

    Developer gets variance to build a 200-unit, mixed-use development on site occupied by historic theater. Boymelgreen Developers, owner of two lots located at the intersection of Northern Boulevard and Main Street in Flushing, Queens, totaling 41,880 square feet, sought to construct a 200-unit, seventeen- story, mixed-use building with accessory parking. The building will be constructed on two currently improved lots. The first lot contains a two-story commercial building that will be demolished. The second lot contains the RKO Keith Flushing Theater, which is home to an interior landmark.

    Boymelgreen argued that several unique features of the site created an unnecessary hardship. The limited street frontage along Northern Boulevard, much of which is occupied by the theater, required the residential tower to be built above the theater. Boymelgreen also argued that restoration and protection of the theater during construction would be costly and time consuming. According to Boymelgreen, bringing the theater up to modern standards was infeasible because it would require an increased incline on the ground floor for stadium seating and a rebuilt balcony. Among other waivers requested, Boymelgreen sought to increase the allowable residential FAR for from 2.43 to 6.86 and the mixed-use FAR from 4.8 to 7.5. (read more…)

    Tags : 135-35 Northern Boulevard, Boymelgreen Developers, Queens Community Board 7, RKO Keith Flushing Theater
    Date:02/15/2006
    Category : Board of Standards & Appeals
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