LPC Docket Number: 091749 Queens, Block: 8017, Lot: 46 343 Knollwood Avenue – Douglaston Historic District A cottage style house designed by G.A. Mezger and built in 1929. Application is to replace the windows. HDC Testimony The removal of four façades worth of original steel casement windows (including ones readily visible from the street) would […]
LPC Docket Number: 104962 Brooklyn, Block: 6600, Lot: 119 820 East 16th Street – Avenue H Station House, Individual Landmark A cottage style office building with Colonial Revival and Queen Anne style elements built in the 20th Century. Application is to install a sculpture. HDC Testimony HDC is incredibly pleased that this project is before […]
LPC Docket Number: 103725 Manhattan, Block: 530, Lot: 19 25 Great Jones – NoHo Historic District A partially constructed building. Application is to approve revisions to the design of the facades. HDC Testimony HDC finds 25 Great Jones Street to not only be inappropriate for the NoHo Historic District, but also an example of what […]
LPC Docket Number: 101256 Staten Island, Block: 955, Lot: 1 460 Brielle Avenue – NYC Farm Colony-Seaview Hospital Historic District Historic District A tuberculosis hospital complex constructed between 1908-1937. Application is to construct a new building and parking lot. HDC Testimony While construction of a new building that continues the spirit and use of the […]
LPC Docket Number: 102970 Queens, Block: 8036, Lot: 26 344 Grosvenor Street – Douglaston Historic District A Colonial Revival style house designed by Philip Resnyk and built in 1935. Application is to replace the roof. HDC Testimony HDC is opposed to the use of asphalt shingles on this prominent hipped roof in the Douglaston Historic […]
Hearing Date: 8/11/2009 LPC Docket Number: 098532 Brooklyn, Block: 301, Lot: 44 155 Warren Street – Cobble Hill Historic District A Greek Revival style rowhouse built in 1838. Application is to construct dormers at the roof. HDC Testimony While the commission has approved dormers on the front facades of similar buildings, HDC finds these proposed […]
