February 21,2012

Item 5BINDING REPORT BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN 128066- Block 921, lot 1- Sunset Park – Sunset Play Center, Individual Landmark A complex, including a bath house, pools, bleachers, filter house, perimeter walls, fencing, and paving, designed by Herbert Magoon, lead architect, and consulting architects Aymer Embury II, Henry Ahrens and others and built in 1934-1936. Application […]

Written by on Feb 22, 2012

DNAinfo reports on the battle for 240 Columbus Avenue bas relief mural

UPPER WEST SIDE — Almost two years after wealthy Central Park West residents thwarted his dream of opening a wine bar in their neighborhood, would-be restaurateur Greg Hunt is battling another formidable Upper West Side foe — preservationists. Groups including Landmark West and the Historic Districts Council are rallying against Hunt’s plan to tear down a roughly 40-year-old […]

Written by on Feb 22, 2012