HDC@LPC – June 26, 2012

Item 5 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN 130180- Block 530, lot 7504- 50 Bond Street – NoHo Historic District A Classical Revival style store and loft building designed by Cleverdon and Putzel and built in 1896-97. Application is to alter a roof deck. While the proposal is to alter a roof deck, the walls […]

HDC@LPC Testimony June 19, 2012

Item 29 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN 130104- Block 829, lot 36- 236-238 5th Avenue – Madison Square North Historic District A Beaux-Arts style loft building designs by Buchman and Fox and built in 1906-1907. Application is to legalize the installation of windows without LPC permits. HDC finds that the windows are not up […]

HDC@LPC Testimony: June 12, 2012

Item 1 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF QUEENS 128594- Block 8049, lot 44- 357 Arleigh Road – Douglaston Historic District A vernacular New England Colonial Revival style house built circa 1930. Application is to replace the roof. HDC asks that if real slate is not a practical replacement material here at 357 Arleigh Road, a […]

HDC@LPC Testimony: June 5, 2012

Item 4 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN 130937- Block 266, lot 30- 210 Joralemon Street – Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District A neo-Classical style civic building designed by McKenzie Voorhees & Gmelin and built in 1932-26. Application is to modify window openings at the ground floor, replace second story windows and install awnings and […]

HDC@LPC Testimony: May 22, 2012

Item 11 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN 125412- Block 220, lot 35- 46 Laight Street – TriBeCa North Historic District An Italianate style tenement building designed by William H. Waring and built in 1874. Application is to replace ground floor infill installed in non-compliance with LPC permits, perform alterations at the roof level, and […]

HDC@LPC- January 10, 2012

Item 1 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF QUEENS 115004- Block 8023, lot 19- 336 Knollwood Avenue aka 240-30 Knollwood Avenue – Douglaston Historic District A contemporary Colonial Revival style freestanding house built in 1965. Application is to enlarge and alter the house, construct an addition and garage, remove a tree, and relocate a curb cut. […]

HDC@LPC – December 20, 2011

  Item 1 LP – 2202 BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company Building, 360 Third Avenue Avenue, Tax Map Bock 987, Lot 7 HDC is opposed to the significant decrease proposed for the landmarked site of the New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company Building.  A five-foot “buffer zone” […]

HDC@LPC – December 6, 2011

Item 5 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN 119285- Block 270, lot 9- 163 State Street – Brooklyn Heights Historic District A Greek Revival style rowhouse built in 1841. Application is to replace paired entrance doors. While the LPC’s rowhouse manual is certainly a valuable resource, a landmarked house itself isthe best place to start […]

HDC@LPC – November 22, 2011

Item 4 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN 123794- Block 253, lot 13- 89 Joralemon Street – Brooklyn Heights Historic District An Anglo-Italianate style rowhouse built in 1861-1879. Application is to alter the stoop newel posts and areaway walls.  While it is nice to see an application to improve upon this fine rowhouse, it is […]

HDC@LPC – November 1, 2011

Item 2 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN 117642- Block 1079, lot 49- 627 3rd Street – Park Slope Historic District A neo-Renaissance style rowhouse designed by Axel S. Hedman and built in 1910. Application is construct a rooftop addition, perform excavation, and modify the rear façade and front areaway. HDC finds the proposed work […]