February 1, 2011

LPC Docket Number: 114240 Manhattan, Block: 1185, Lot: 25 333 West End Avenue – West End Collegiate Historic District A neo-Venetian Gothic style apartment building desinged by Emery Roth and built in 1925. Application is to legalize the installation of AC condensers without LPC permits. HDC Testimony When condenser units are proposed for the roof […]

February 1, 2011

LPC Docket Number: 114240 Manhattan, Block: 1185, Lot: 25 333 West End Avenue – West End Collegiate Historic District A neo-Venetian Gothic style apartment building desinged by Emery Roth and built in 1925. Application is to legalize the installation of AC condensers without LPC permits. HDC Testimony When condenser units are proposed for the roof […]

December 14, 2010

LPC Docket Number: 109622 Manhattan, Block: 210, Lot: 9 326 Canal Street – TriBeCa East Historic District An Italianate style store and loft building designed by John M. Hoffman and built in 1866-67, and altered by Samuel Edson Gage in 1920-21. Application is to install storefront infill. HDC Testimony This proposal is a generally good […]

December 7, 2010

LPC Docket Number: 114104 Brooklyn, Block: 310, Lot: 3 439-445 Hicks Street aka 126-140 Baltic Street – Cobble Hill Historic District Model tenement buildings designed by William Field & Son and built in 1876-77. Application is to establish a master plan governing the future installation of windows. LPC Docket Number: 100174 Brooklyn, Block: 305, Lot: […]

December 7, 2010

LPC Docket Number: 114104 Brooklyn, Block: 310, Lot: 3 439-445 Hicks Street aka 126-140 Baltic Street – Cobble Hill Historic District Model tenement buildings designed by William Field & Son and built in 1876-77. Application is to establish a master plan governing the future installation of windows. LPC Docket Number: 100174 Brooklyn, Block: 305, Lot: […]

November 16, 2010

LPC Docket Number: 113230 Manhattan, Block: 994, Lot: 54 1462-1470 Broadway – Knickerbocker Hotel, Individual Landmark A Beaux-Arts style hotel, designated by Marvin and Davis, with Bruce Price, built in 1906, and altered by Charles A. Platt in 1920-1921, with a Romanesque Revival style annex, designed by Phillip C. Brown and built in 1894. Application […]

November 9, 2010

LPC Docket Number: 108132 Queens, Block: 1475, Lot: 59 37-37 87th Street – Jackson Heights Historic District An Anglo-American Garden Home style attached house, designed by C.F. McAvoy and built in 1924. Application is to legalize alterations to the areaway fence and wall without LPC permits. HDC Testimony The commission has seen applications for legalizing […]

October 19, 2010

LPC Docket Number: 107610 Brooklyn, Block: 1961, Lot: 53 414 Waverly Avenue – Clinton Hill Historic District A vacant lot. Application is to construct a new building. HDC Testimony In general, HDC finds that this application for a new building is a successful one that obviously takes into account the materials, style, details, and building […]

October 19, 2010

LPC Docket Number: 107610 Brooklyn, Block: 1961, Lot: 53 414 Waverly Avenue – Clinton Hill Historic District A vacant lot. Application is to construct a new building. HDC Testimony In general, HDC finds that this application for a new building is a successful one that obviously takes into account the materials, style, details, and building […]

September 28, 2010

LPC Docket Number: 110521 Brooklyn, Block: 296, Lot: 32 177 Congress Street – Cobble Hill Historic District An Italianate style rowhouse built in the early 1850s and later altered. Application is to legalize and modify door, windows and planter installation at front façade and areaway without LPC permits. HDC Testimony HDC does not approve of […]