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 […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-25-07751 134 West 130th Street – Central Harlem – West 130-132nd Street Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A neo-Grec style rowhouse designed by Cleverdon & Putzel and built in 1885. Application is to construct a rear yard addition. Architect: Andre Architecture, D.P.C. HDC finds this application to be inappropriate for the proposed […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-25-11315 44-72 23rd Street – Hunters Point Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A modified Romanesque Revival style rowhouse with a Classical style cornice built in 1887. Application is to modify openings at the rear façade. Architect: James Schaefer Architect HDC finds this proposal inappropriate. This appears to be an intact row with regular […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-26-01231 59-39 70th Avenue – Central Ridgewood Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A Renaissance Revival style two-family house designed by Louis Berger & Company and built c. 1909. Application is to legalize and modify the installation of windows and HVAC equipment, and legalize recladding and altering the rear extension without Landmarks Preservation […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-26-00251 152 Hicks Street – Brooklyn Heights Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A Greek Revival-style rowhouse built in 1840. Application is to construct a rear yard addition. Architect: SD Design Studio LLC HDC finds this proposal inappropriate. We hold our typical stance on rear yard additions that the top two floors of […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-25-06304 2 Hylan Boulevard – Alice Austen House – Individual Landmark BINDING REPORT A Gothic Revival style house originally built as a Dutch Colonial style house c. 1700, and enlarged and remodeled in the 19th century. Application is to construct an elevated barrierfree access walkway and stairs. Architect: CTA Architects P.C. HDC […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-25-10999 242-03 Pine Street – Douglaston Hill Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A neo-Colonial style free-standing house designed by John Stuart and built in 1904-1905. Application is to install solar panels. HDC finds the solar panels on the street-facing facade to be inappropriate due to their visibility; they should be placed in […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-25-09193 604 Shore Road – Douglaston Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A Colonial Revival style free-standing house designed by J.H. Cornell and built in 1919. Application is to modify paving and garden walls. Architect: QUINCY HAMMOND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, PC HDC finds some elements of this proposal to be inappropriate. This house is […]
PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONY LPC-25-12069 1 West Kingsbridge Road – Kingsbridge Armory (Eighth Regiment Armory) – Individual Landmark BINDING REPORT A Medieval Romanesque style armory building designed by Pilcher & Tachau and built in 1912-1917. Application is to demolish ancillary buildings on the site and construct a new building, and at the armory building, alter and […]
