PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-26-06063 145 Wyckoff Street – Boerum Hill Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A modified Italianate style rowhouse built in 1867-68. Application is to construct a rear yard addition. The Historic Districts Council finds the proposed rear yard addition to be modest in scale and generally appropriate to the building and its context. […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-26-04358 114 Fort Greene Place – Brooklyn Academy of Music Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS An Italianate style rowhouse built in 1855. Application is to construct rooftop and rear yard additions, reconstruct the rear façade and enlarge window openings. Architect: Brent Buck Architects Historic Districts Council finds this application to be generally […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-25-11643 246 Henry Street – Brooklyn Heights Historic District Brooklyn CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A Greek Revival style rowhouse built in 1846. Application is to replace the gate with a door under the stoop. HDC questions the necessity of replacing the existing door. The applicant has already installed an unobtrusive metal gate, […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-26-02247 112-113 South St. New York, NY 10038 – South Street Seaport Historic District A pair of Federal style store buildings built in 1818-19. Application is to construct rooftop dormers. HDC finds the conceptual proposal of dormers to be appropriate, but the lack of detail about the dormers’ material makes it difficult […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-26-04038 362 Clinton Street – Cobble Hill Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS An Italianate style rowhouse built in 1843. Application is to construct a rear yard addition. Architect: RACHEL FRANKEL ARCHITECTURE HDC recognizes that the addition is working in tandem with the neighboring extensions on both the right and the left. However, […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-26-01803 144 Greenpoint Avenue – Greenpoint Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS An altered commercial building originally built in 1898. Application is to demolish the building and construct a new building. Architect: Building Studio Architects HDC questions this new design direction. This project needs work, but we are confident that the architects are […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-26-01578 440 West 21st Street (Aka 402-444 West 21st Street), and 180 10th Avenue (Aka 444-450 West 21st Street) – Chelsea Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS An ensemble of English Collegiate Gothic style buildings around a close designed primarily by Charles Coolidge Haight and built largely between 1881-1902. Application is to create […]
Public Hearing Testimony LPC-26-03280 138-154 St. Felix Street, aka 11-21 Hanson Place – Brooklyn Academy of Music Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A neo-Gothic style church building designed by Halsey, McCormack & Helmer and built in 1929-1930. Application is to alter and demolish portions of the building, remove, replace and relocate doors and stained glass […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-26-03839 800 Fifth Avenue – Upper East Side Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A postmodern style apartment building designed by Ulrich Franzen & Associates and built in 1978. Application is to demolish the existing building and landscape features and construct a new building, install new landscape features, and relocate a curb cut. […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-26-00010 233 Park Lane – Douglaston Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS An Arts and Crafts bungalow style free-standing house designed by David W. Terwilliger and built in 1911. Application is to enclose a porch and modify a stoop. Architect: Kevin Wolfe Architect, PC HDC finds this proposal to be appropriate and well […]
