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CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS TESTIMONY LPC-24-05296 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS An Italianate style rowhouse built in 1854-55. Application is to enlarge a rear yard addition. Architect: Errol E. Crawford Architect HDC finds that this application does not offer sufficient information for us to comment, and we ask that the Commission take no action until the applicant returns with a complete proposal. Action: no action. |
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LPC-25-00396 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A Gothic Revival/Italianate style hotel building built in 1844-1845, with additions built in 1852-53, 1867-1868 and 1869, and altered in 1987-1989. Application is to install signage and light fixtures HDC appreciates this painted signage and is happy to support this application. Action: no action. |
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LPC-24-09981 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A late Federal style rowhouse built in 1826. Application is to construct rooftop and rear yard additions and replace the rear façade. HDC finds the massing and fenestration of this rear addition appropriate, but we wonder if the applicant had considered clapboard instead of brick for the extension, which we believe could speak more directly to the history of this 1826 row house. |
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LPC-24-03833 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS An apartment building designed by Robert L. Bien and built in 1961-1963. Application is to reclad the base of the building. Architect: Matthew Cordone Architect HDC finds this proposal to replace the red marble cladding at the base of this building with white limestone cladding to be inappropriate, because the use of bold color was integral to Robert L. Bien’s architectural intent in this case. Speaking about this building to The New York Times in 2000, Bien said, ”At the time I thought, ‘Let’s liven it up.’ The Times notes that here, Bien “indulged in a favorite proclivity: color.” In fact, the building’s wavy piers, now painted white, “were originally pink.” HDC believes that this building deserves more color, not less. We note when asked what he’d do if he could redo his work from the 1950’s and 1960’s, Bein told The Times, ”I’d like to use more color.” HDC asks the applicant to honor that intent by leaving the red cladding at the base of this building intact, and restoring the piers to their original pink. That way, the existing base will relate to the piers, as it should. Certainly, the Upper East Side could use more pink. Action: approved. |
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