HDC@LPC Testimony for April 4th, 2023

Created on Apr 20, 2023 by hdc

Certificate of Appropriateness Testimony

LPC-23-06465

33 Joralemon Street – Brooklyn Heights Historic District

CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS

A one-story garage building built in the 20th century. Application is to demolish the garage, construct a new building, and create a curb cut.

Architect: Steering House Design and Development

HDC appreciates the modern aesthetic of this new construction, and we support this building, but we feel the architect should spend some further time investigating the detailing of the window lintels and sills. Additionally, some articulation of the ground floor of the building might help it relate a bit more to the brownstone plinths of its immediate neighbors’ garden floors.

Action: No Action

LPC-23-06001

34 Ericsson Place – Tribeca West Historic District

CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS

A neo-Renaissance style store and loft building designed by William Emerson and built in 1908. Application is to install storefront infill and replace the loading platform.

Architect: McDonald Architecture Studio

HDC applauds this application for its attention to research and detail. We appreciate this very appropriate restoration, and find it quite refreshing to see such careful reconstruction of vault lights.

Action: Unanimously approved

LPC-23-07943

1 Wall Street – 1 Wall Street Building – Individual Landmark

CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS

An Art Deco style skyscraper building designed by Ralph T. Walker and built in 1929-31. Application is to replace doors and install signage.

Architect: Design Republic

1 Wall Street is a masterpiece by Ralph Walker, once called “the architect of the century.” While the proposed doors are fine, the proposed signage at the Broadway elevation interrupts the vertical thrust of the facade and is inappropriate in the extreme.

Walker designed this building as a series of layered rhythms. According the building’s designation report, “this sense of rhythm is clear when one’s eye travels upward along the strongly vertical lines of this building, uninterrupted by cornices or projecting parapets.”

Instead of maintaining that strong verticality, the proposed signage marches indiscriminately across solids and voids, introducing horizontal bands which are completely at odds with, and disruptive of, Walker’s design intent. The proposed signage has no place on this exceptional landmark.

Action: Unanimously approved with modification to work with staff on simplified doors.

LPC-23-04661

350 Bleecker Street – Greenwich Village Historic District

CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS

An apartment house designed by H.I. Feldman and built in 1963. Application is to paint masonry at the corner storefront and install signage.

Architect: JPD Preservation Consulting

HDC is in favor of the applicant’s proposal to paint the facade of this building, but we note that the proposed white color is a little bright, and feel that a more muted color would be more appropriate.

Action: Unanimously Approved with modification that they restudy the paint and color.

LPC-23-04696

260 West 11th Street – Greenwich Village Historic District

CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS

A Federal style house, originally built in 1830 and altered in 1872. Application is to enlarge a rear yard addition.

HDC is largely in favor of this fairly modest proposal, but we note that the proposed first floor of the rear addition introduces a horizontal glazing pattern that does not relate to the vertical orientation of the muntins on the two upper floors.

Action: Unanimously approved

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