ALERT: Landmarks Designation Hearing on January 30th
There’s a very interesting designation hearing scheduled for January 30 at the LPC which includes (among other things):
94-96 Greenwich Streets (one of our Unprotected and Under Consideration)
Crotona Play Center (another one)
and McCarren Pool which we have been trying to save since 1986!!!!
It seems our list actually works.
Note also that many of the play centers are being considered as interior landmarks, which shows the City’s efforts to properly restore them. Please come down to the hearing at the LPC or send a comment to [email protected] if you want to speak out about any of these buildings.
Here’s the complete list:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/calendar/01_30_07.pdf
PUBLIC HEARING
TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2007
PUBLIC DESIGNATION HEARINGS
GARNER MANSION, 355 Bard Avenue, Staten Island.
94 GREENWICH STREET, 94 Greenwich Street, Manhattan.
94 ½ GREENWICH STREET aka 94A Greenwich Street, Manhattan.
96 GREENWICH STREET, 96 Greenwich Street, Manhattan.
CROTONA PARK PLAY CENTER, including the bath house, swimming pool, diving pool, bleachers, filter house, retaining wall with seating niches, terrace site of former wading pool and approach stairs, retaining walls, fencing and linking pathways, Fulton Avenue between East 172nd Street and East 173rd Street, Bronx.
CROTONA PLAY CENTER BATH HOUSE, main floor interior consisting of the north and south locker rooms, and the fixtures and interior components of these spaces,including but not limited to, wall surfaces, floor surfaces, ceiling surfaces, ceiling buttressing, and doors. Fulton Avenue between East 172nd and East 173rd Streets, Bronx.
BETSY HEAD PLAY CENTER, including the bath house, swimming pool, diving pool, bleachers and filter house, and perimeter cast iron fencing, Hopkinson Avenue between Livonia and Dumont Avenues, Brooklyn.
TOMPKINSVILLE PLAY CENTER (Joseph H. Lyons Pool), including the Bath House, Swimming pool, diving pool, wading pool, heating and filtration plant, comfort station, and perimeter retaining walls, terracing and fencing. Victory Boulevard and Murray Hulbert Avenue, Staten Island.
TOMPKINSVILLE PLAY CENTER (Joseph H. Lyons Pool) BATH HOUSE, first floor interior consisting of the domed entry foyer,and the fixtures and interior components of this space, including but not limited to, wall surfaces, floor surfaces, ceiling surfaces, doors, ticket and information booth fronts, and metal signage, Victory Boulevard, Staten Island.
THOMAS JEFFERSON PLAY CENTER, including the bath house, diving pool and swimming pool, perimiter terracing and fencing, and the paved allees paralleling the northern and southern boundaries of the pool complex perimeter, First Avenue between East 11th Street and East 14th Street, Manhattan.
RED HOOK PLAY CENTER, Red Hook Play Center including the bath house, swimming pool, former diving (now wading) pool, bleachers, comfort station, storage building, perimeter brick and cast-iron fencing, and landscaped seating areas flanking the northern end of the pool complex, Bay Street between henry Street and Clinton Street, Brooklyn.
JACKIE ROBINSON (Colonial Park) PLAY CENTER, including the bathhouse, swimming pool, diving pool, bandshell, dance floor terrace and extension between West 148th Street and West 150th Street, retaining walls, fencing, stairways, linking pathways, playground wading pool and comfort station, Bradhurst Avenue between West 145th Street and West 153rd Street, Manhattan.
JACKIE ROBINSON (Colonial Park) PLAY CENTER BATH HOUSE, Jackie Robinson (Colonial Park) Play Center Bath House, first floor interior consisting of the vaulted entry foyer and the two staircases leading to the second floor locker rooms, and the fixtures and interior components of these spaces, including but not limited to, wall surfaces, floor surfaces, ceiling surfaces, doors, railings, ticket booth, bas-reliefs, signage and metal grilles, Bradhurst Avenue between West 146th Street and West 147th Street, Manhattan.
HIGHBRIDGE PLAY CENTER, including the bath house, wading pool and swimming and diving pool, bleachers and comfort station, filter house, perimeter walls, terracing and fencing, street level ashlar retaining walls, eastern viewing terrace which includes the designated Water Tower and its Landmark Site, Amsterdam Avenue between West 172nd Street and West 174th Street, Manhattan.
McCARREN PLAY CENTER, including the bath house, swimming pool, diving pool, wading pool, filter house, life guard house, brick perimeter walls, piers and cast-iron fencing, comfort stations linking pathways, and the planter meridian paralleling the western side of the bath house, Lorimer Street between Driggs Avenue and Bayard Street, Brooklyn.
SUNSET PLAY CENTER, including the bath house, swimming pool, diving pool, wading pool, bleachers, filter house, perimeter walls and fencing enclosing these structures, linking pathways, street level fieldstone retaining walls, and the southernmost portion of the paved allee aligned with Sixth Avenue, Seventh Avenue between 41st Street and 44th Street, Brooklyn.
SUNSET PLAY CENTER BATH HOUSE, first floor interior consisting of the domed entry foyer, and the fixtures and interior components of this space, including but not limited to, wall surfaces, floor surfaces, ceiling surfaces, doors, railings, ticket booth, chimney stack, signage, hanging lamps and clock, Seventh Avenue between 41st Street and 44th Street, Brooklyn.