HDC@LPC – May 20, 2014

  Item 5 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF Brooklyn 155492- Block 2225, lot 42- 125 Heyward Street – Individual Landmark A Second Empire style building designed by James W. Naughton and built in 1888-89. Application is to modify the building entrance and construct additions. HDC feels that this grand structure demands a high standard for […]

HDC@LPC – May 13, 2014

  Item 4 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF Manhattan 155592- Block 531, lot 45- 48 Great Jones Street – NoHo Extension Historic District A Renaissance Revivals style store and loft building designed by A. V. Porter and built in 1896-97. Application is to remove cast iron vault lights. In addition to providing sunlight for subterranean […]

HDC@LPC – May 13, 2014

  Item 4 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF Manhattan 155592- Block 531, lot 45- 48 Great Jones Street – NoHo Extension Historic District A Renaissance Revivals style store and loft building designed by A. V. Porter and built in 1896-97. Application is to remove cast iron vault lights. In addition to providing sunlight for subterranean […]

HDC@LPC – May 6, 2014

  Item 1 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF Queens 148940- Block 8026, lot 44- 105 Grosvenor Street – Douglaston Historic District A Colonial Revival style house built c. 1920. Application is to remove the cobblestone streetbed gutter. These cobblestone street gutters once ran east to west along all the streets in Douglas Manor to facilitate […]

HDC@LPC – May 6, 2014

  Item 1 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF Queens 148940- Block 8026, lot 44- 105 Grosvenor Street – Douglaston Historic District A Colonial Revival style house built c. 1920. Application is to remove the cobblestone streetbed gutter. These cobblestone street gutters once ran east to west along all the streets in Douglas Manor to facilitate […]

HDC@LPC – April 29, 2014

Item 2 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF Queens 151939- Block 10102, lot 10- 162-24 Jamaica Avenue – Individual Landmark An Art Deco style department store designed by Allmendinger and Schlendorf and built in 1931. Application is to install signage and alter storefront. Given the generous detail and lovely palette of materials exhibited on this Art […]

HDC@LPC – April 8, 2014

Item 1 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF Manhattan 134602- Block 696, lot 65- 210-218 11th Avenue aka 564-568 W 25th Street – West Chelsea Historic District A Gothic Revival style factory building designed by Shire & Kaufman and built in 1910-11. Application is to establish a master plan governing the future installation of windows. Given […]

HDC@LPC – April 1, 2014

Item 4 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF Manhattan 149648- Block 23, lot 19- 18 Broad Street – Individual Landmark Historic District A neo-Classical  style building designed  by George B. Post and built in 1901-03. Application is to install a Fast Acting Security Shutter. HDC finds the proposed security shutter too much of an intrusion for […]

HDC@LPC – April 1, 2014

Item 4 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF Manhattan 149648- Block 23, lot 19- 18 Broad Street – Individual Landmark Historic District A neo-Classical  style building designed  by George B. Post and built in 1901-03. Application is to install a Fast Acting Security Shutter. HDC finds the proposed security shutter too much of an intrusion for […]

HDC@LPC – March 25, 2014

Item 1 LP – 2475 BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN (Former) FIRST GERMAN BAPTIST CHURCH (LATER UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALIC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST. VOLODYMYR/LATER CONGREGATION TIFERETH ISRAEL TOWN AND VILLAGE SYNAGOGUE), 334 East 14th Street Every building in New York has a story to tell. The structure at 334 East 14th Street is unique in that it tells […]