CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS TESTIMONY LPC-21-05596 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A Greek Revival style residence built c. 1836. Application is to construct new buildings Architect: Victorio Associates Architect HDC supports Staten Island Community Board 1’s position that the John King Vanderbilt House should be restored before any new work proceeds on this landmarked property. Regarding that new work, we find the massing to be generally appropriate, but we have concerns with the siting in relation to the landmark. Further, we believe that the proposed design lacks detail. We believe the applicant should look to the landmarked house as precedent. We ask the Commission to take no action on this proposal, and require the applicant to come back with a proposal to that takes this issues into consideration. Action: Laid over, read into the record |
LPC-23-11569 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A Federal style house built in 1829. Application is to construct a rear yard addition, modify a window opening, paint shutters, replace a fence, and install a driveway and curb cut. Architect: re-a.d HDC finds this proposal to be largely appropriate and sensitively done. That said, there are several details we would like to comment on. We believe the applicant could work with staff to reduce the scale of the gate along Willow street, and to reduce the amount of the glass on the rear yard addition, where the applicant proposes seven windows. On the proposed addition, we favor a higher proportion of wood to glass, and believe eliminating the two very slim windows on either side of the composition, while raising the sill heights of the five remaining windows, would be more appropriate. Action: Approved with modification that the applicant will work with staff to do investigation on the stair window. If original, keep, and therefore restudy the roof height. Work with staff on the height of the gate, and the color of the shutters. |
LPC-23-11767 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS A commercial building designed by Tobias Goldstone and built in 1921, and a store and flats building designed by Morris Rothstein and built in c. 1923, both reclad and modified post 1980 as a church; and an empty lot. Application is to demolish the existing buildings and construct a new building. Architect: Z Architecture HDC sees this new building as a positive example of appropriate and contextual massing, but we find the Deco-inspired glass corner to be insubstantial and unrelated to the rest of the composition. We also find the brick detailing of the facade to be unconsidered. We believe the applicants should study examples of neighboring 19th century brickwork to develop a more convincing approach to these details. Action: No action, refine fenestration, color materials, balance of the balconies and treatment of the ground floor of the corner building. |
LPC-23-07645 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS We find this applicant’s removal of the leaded-glass transom without LPC permits to be inappropriate. We ask the Commission not to legalize this application. Action: Unanimously approved subject to a mock up, and the stipulation that the applicant will work with staff on the framing |
LPC-24-01563 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS HDC finds this altered door and enframement to be inappropriate. The stoop is also inappropriate and should be rebuilt using solid blocks of bluestone. Action: Unanimously approved with modification that the applicant will put the colonettes back on the door enframement, add bluestone to the side of the stoop and relate the stoop gate designs to the railings. |
LPC-24-03323 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Architect: DXA studio HDC finds this to be a very interesting addition to the Ladies’ Mile Historic District. We had reservations about some of the applicant’s precedent images, but we ultimately feel that this building’s alignment with its neighbor at the top, and its three story expression at the base, which is typical of buildings in this district, make this building an appropriate part of this district. Action: Unanimously approved |
LPC-24-03109 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Architect: William Leggio Architect Because of the consistency of the rear yards on the rest of this block, HDC finds this proposed fourth floor addition to be an inappropriate violation of rear massing. Action: Unanimously approved |