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    Sarah Carroll Appointed Chair of Landmarks Preservation Commission

    Appointment  •  Citywide

    Sarah Carroll. Image credit: LPC.

    Sarah Carroll continues to rise within the Landmarks Preservation Commission. On September 26, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the appointment of Sarah Carroll as the new Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The Landmarks Preservation Commission is the largest municipal preservation agency in the nation, responsible for protecting New York City’s architecturally, historically, and culturally significant buildings and sites by granting them landmark or historic district status, and regulating them after designation. To read CityLand‘s prior coverage on Carroll, click here. (read more…)

    Tags : Chair, Landmarks, LPC, mayor, Sarah Carroll
    Date:10/02/2018
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Extensive Revisions Demanded for Canal Street Development

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Tribeca, Manhattan

    Rendering of 312 Canal Street. Image Credit: LPC.

    Developers proposed to demolish five heavily altered 19th-century structures to make way for a new 8-story-plus-penthouse residential building with retail base. On June 6, 2017, Landmarks considered an application to redevelop five lots at 312 through 322 Canal Street in the Tribeca East Historic District. The five buildings were originally constructed in the 1820s, at two-and-a-half stories, but saw repeated additions, reductions and alterations throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and currently stand at two stories. Little, if any, original historic fabric remains on the buildings’ exteriors. The site is located mid-block, near where Mercer Street intersects with Canal Street. (read more…)

    Tags : Assemblymember Deborah Glick, Historic Districts Council, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Manhattan Community Board 1, Mark Silberman, Meenakshi Srinivasan, New York Landmarks Conservancy, Sarah Carroll, Tribeca East Historic District
    Date:06/21/2017
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
    (1) Comment

    Wide Support for Designation of Early Postmodern Hotel Interiors

    Designation Hearing  •  East Midtown, Manhattan
    United Nations Hotel

    United Nations Hotel. Image Credit: LPC

    Some speakers testified that landmarked space should be expanded to connect bar and lobby as one designated interior. At its meeting on November 22, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission heard testimony on the potential designation of two interior spaces on the first floor of the United Nations Hotel at 1 United Nations Plaza in East Midtown. The interiors under consideration are the Ambassador Grill and the Hotel Lobby, built as part of a hotel and office complex by the United Nations Development Corporation. Both designed by the firm Kevin Roche Dinkeloo Associates. The grill was completed in 1976, and the Lobby in 1983. Landmarks voted to add the interiors to its calendar on September 20, 2016. (read more…)

    Tags : Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan, Docomomo, Sarah Carroll, United Nations Development Corporation, United Nations Plaza Hotel
    Date:12/08/2016
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Commissioners Ask for Revisions to Controversial Jane Street Development

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Greenwich Village, Manhattan
    11 Jane Street Rendering. Image Credit: LPC.

    11 Jane Street Rendering. Image Credit: LPC.

    Proposal to replace 1920s garage building with residential development was opposed by community members and their elected officials. On July 26 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission heard the applicants’ response to public testimony regarding an application to redevelop a lot at 11 Jane Street in the Greenwich Village Historic District, and discussed the proposal. The lot is currently occupied by a two-story 1921 garage building. The applicants proposed to replace the garage with a seven-story residential structure. (read more…)

    Tags : Adi Shamir-Baron, Assemblymember Deborah Glick, Commissioner Michael Devonshire, Commissioner Michael Goldblum, Council Member Corey Johnson, David Chipperfield, Friedman and Gotbaum, Greenwich Village Historic District, Higgins and Quasebarth, John Gustafsson, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Manhattan Community Board 2, Mark Silberman, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Sarah Carroll, Shelly Friedman, State Senator Brad Hoylman, Ward Dennis
    Date:07/29/2016
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Thirty of 95 backlogged items prioritized for 2016 designation votes

    Special Meeting  •  Citywide

    The Thomas-Lamb designed Loew’s 175th Street Theater in Washington Heights was prioritized for designation. Image credit: LPC

    Some items will be removed from calendar due to political reality that designations will not be ratified by Council; others are found to be adequately protected so as to not require prioritization; others to lack significance that would merit immediate designation. On February 23, 2016, Landmarks made determinations on the disposition of 95 items added to Landmarks’ calendar before 2010, but never subjected to a vote on designation. In 2015 the commission had announced an initiative to clear the calendar of the backlogged items. Landmarks held a series of public hearings to give the public an opportunity to testify on the items, some of which had languished on Landmarks’ calendar for decades. At the meeting on February 23, 2016 commissioners voted to keep 30 items on the calendar for a vote on designation during 2016. The remaining 65 items will be decalendared. Landmarks’ determinations on all 95 items are listed in the associated chart.

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    Tags : Adi Shamir-Baron, City Council, Commissioner Diana Chapin, Commissioner Michael Goldblum, Council Member Steven Matteo, John Gustafsson, Joseph Borelli, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Mark Silberman, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Michael Devonshire, Public Design Commission, Sarah Carroll
    Date:02/29/2016
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
    (1) Comment

    Extension to 1971 Historic District Enters Designation Process

    Designation Calendaring  •  Harlem, Manhattan

    Landmarks vowed to continue engagement with the community and property owners in advance of hearing on extension of the Mount Morris Park Historic District. On April 14, 2015, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to add the Mount Morris Park Historic District Extension, to its calendar, the first step in the formal designation process. The district lies between 118th and 123rd Streets, bounded by Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard. (read more…)

    Tags : Council Member Inez Dickens, Manhattan Community Board 10, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Mount Morris Park Association, Roberta Washington, Sarah Carroll
    Date:04/17/2015
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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