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CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS TESTIMONY LPC-25-04543 186 Underhill Avenue – Prospect Heights Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A Renaissance Revival style store and flats building built c. 1915. Application is to install signage. Applicant: Noble Signs HDC supports and appreciates this appropriate sign based on historic precedents. We think the application could be even better if the applicant would consider stretching the sign across the full width of the facade so that it would relate more directly to the symmetry of the building above. Action: approved. |
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LPC-25-03997 482 East 18th Street – Ditmas Park Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A Colonial Revival style free-standing house designed by Benjamin Dreisler and built in 1899. Application is to install skylights on the roof. Architect: Frederick Tang Architecture HDC finds these skylights appropriate because they do not damage or remove any historic fabric. As a point of information, we are interested to know whether the skylights the applicant showed as precedents were approved by the commission or installed prior to designation. Action: approved. |
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LPC-25-05359 21-20 45th Avenue – Hunters Point Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS An Italianate style rowhouse designed by Spencer Root and John Rust and built in 1872. Application is to construct a rear yard addition. Architect: Victor K. Han HDC finds this rear yard addition inappropriate. As proposed, it is one story too high, and the proportions of glass to masonry should be lessened. Action: no action. |
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LPC-24-05964 112-114 Chambers Street – Tribeca South Historic District Extension CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Two Italianate store and loft buildings built in 1854 and 1857. Application is to combine buildings, install storefront infill, remove a fire-escape and shutters, and construct a rooftop addition. Architect: SM Tam Architects and Engineers HDC appreciates that this project will create 8 units of housing. We also appreciate that the approach to the second and third floor windows on the front facade is largely restorative. We believe that the applicant should carry that impulse further in order to retain and restore the 2nd floor commercial loft facade at 114 chambers. At 112, we think the fire escape was a designed component of the building and should be restored and maintained. Further, we feel the storefront requires further study, and we suggest the applicant look to Italianate style storefront precedents. Action: approved. |
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LPC-25-04391 74 MacDougal Street – MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A Greek Revival style house built in 1844 and later altered with neo-Federal style elements in 1920 by Francis Y. Joannes and Maxwell Hyde. Application is to construct a rooftop addition and modify openings at the rear façade. Architect: DTLS This application should include more comprehensive photos of adjacent rear facades in this row. Given that this district was designated in large part for its shared garden, HDC finds this proposal inappropriate because it changes the parlor floor rear window configuration when most of the parlor floor windows on the row remain intact. Action: no action. |
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LPC-25-06756 400 Madison Avenue – 400 Madison Avenue Building – Individual Landmark CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A neo-Gothic style skyscraper designed by H. Craig Severance, Inc. and built in 1928-29. Application is to replace storefront infill and install signage. Architect: MKDA HDC feels that the applicant’s signage is too large. It should not cross the divided transom. We feel the existing Madison Jewelers signage which sits in the upper band of the transom, or the Robert Mark window signage below the transom, are both appropriate solutions. As a next step, we suggest the building pursue a storefront master plan. Action: approved. |
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LPC-25-05481 640 Park Avenue, aka 65-75 East 66th Street – Upper East Side Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A neo-Italian Renaissance style apartment building designed by J. E. R. Carpenter and built in 1913-14. Application is to replace windows. Architect: Matthew Viederman HDC finds this window replacement appropriate, and suggests that, as a next step, the building pursue a master plan. Action: approved. |
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LPC-25-05250 2878 Broadway – Morningside Heights Historic District CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A French Renaissance Revival style apartment building designed by Neville & Bagge and built in 1907-08. Application is to install signage. Architect: Noble Signs HDC supports this lovely sign and appreciates the applicant’s support of neon as a craft. Action: approved. |
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