Rear yard addition did not meet standard of appropriateness. Following a contentious hearing in April over a one-story addition constructed without Landmarks approval at 12- 14 West 68th Street in the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District, Landmarks reconvened to discuss the matter on June 9, 2009. The owners built the addition on top of a 1925 studio building, located at the rear of an 1895 Queen Anne-style mansion, and also installed an illegal, … <Read More>
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Recalcitrant owner of Landmark agrees to $1.1M fine
- Clinton, Manhattan
LPC filed action to compel owner’s repair of landmarked building. After receiving no response to a series of notices regarding the structural instability and deteriorating facade of the landmarked Windermere building at 400 West 57th Street, Landmarks filed suit to compel Toa Construction to repair its building. The action also sought $5,000 in daily civil penalties.
Two months later, a lower court ordered Toa to give Landmarks access to the building to complete … <Read More>
SoHo hotel plan heard
Restaurateurs propose to build four-story hotel behind federal-style Broome Street building. On May 5, 2009, Landmarks viewed a presentation and heard testimony on proposed alterations to a property at 431 Broome Street in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. The applicants, Vincent Boitier and Pierre Casaux, owners of the nearby restaurant l’Orange Bleue, sought approval for a rooftop addition, a new four-story building in the rear yard, and a new storefront infill.
The plan’s architect, Thomas … <Read More>
Williamsburg residential rowhouse district designated
- Fillmore Place Historic District. Image: LPC.
Built as housing for working-class waterfront laborers, neighborhood remains remarkably intact. Landmarks designated the Fillmore Place Historic District on May 12, 2009. The district, primarily located on Fillmore Place between Driggs Avenue and Roebling Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was privately developed during a period of rapid growth in Williamsburg during the 1850s. Although different developers likely had hands in Fillmore Place, the 29 rowhouses maintain cohesiveness in scale and … <Read More>
Conversion of rowhouses to preschool proposed
Renovation would retain only facade and sidewalls. On May 19, 2009, Landmarks heard testimony on a plan to convert two Georgian-style rowhouses, located at 43 and 45 West 86th Street in the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District, into a religious preschool. The rowhouses, built in 1895 and 1896, were designed by architect John H. Duncan, designer of Grant’s Tomb in Riverside Park.
Architect Charles Platt, of the firm Platt Byard Dovell White, presented … <Read More>
Audubon Park District supported for Wash. Hgts.
Historic district occupies land once inhabited by naturalist John James Audubon. On May 12th, 2009, Landmarks designated the Audubon Park Historic District. The district, bounded generally by West 158th Street to the north, West 155th Street to the south, Edward M. Morgan Place and Broadway to the east, and Riverside Drive to the west, encompasses 20 buildings, consisting of five- to 12- story apartment buildings, and one mission-style duplex designed by Moore & Landsiedel. Together, … <Read More>