Landmarks Nov. 17: Barrow St. Merger, UWS Addition, Air Rights

The Landmarks Preservation Commission meets Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 9 a.m. at 253 Broadway to weigh changes from Greenwich Village to the Upper West Side, Fieldston, Douglaston and Stapleton Heights, plus a citywide rewrite of its own rules.

Some items are cosmetic. A few would change what a block looks like for the next century.

Greenwich Village: two rowhouses become one

At 44-46 Barrow Street, the owner of two altered Italianate rowhouses from 1851 wants to combine them, remove the party wall, build rooftop and rear yard additions, add a stoop, alter the facades and areaways, and replace the ironwork.

Nearby, 258 West 12th Street, an 1857 Italianate rowhouse, seeks a door enframement plus rooftop and rear yard additions. At 115-119 Washington Place, the application is to replace security cages that, per the notice, were installed without a Landmarks permit.

Upper West Side: 500 Columbus Avenue

The 1895 Renaissance Revival flats building at 500 Columbus Avenue (aka 101 West 84th Street), altered in 1936, wants an addition at the altered streetwall and a setback vertical enlargement.

The plan also removes ironwork, modifies the base, replaces storefront infill and changes window and door openings.

Midtown: two air-rights requests

Owners of two individual landmarks want a favorable Landmarks report to the City Planning Commission on a continuing maintenance program, tied to transfers of development rights under Zoning Resolution Section 75-42.

They are 3 East 57th Street, a 1929-30 Art Deco retail building by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, and 138 West 48th Street, a 1912-13 Thomas Lamb theater with a designated interior. The notice does not say where the air rights would go.

Flatiron, Riverside Drive and beyond

At 695 6th Avenue in Ladies’ Mile, a former department store wants new storefronts, relocated sidewalk vault covers and a canopy. At 2 West 19th Street, the owner seeks to legalize signage and lighting installed without permits.

790 Riverside Drive in Audubon Park would replace terra cotta with a substitute material and alter its parapets. In the Bronx, 4516 Delafield Avenue in Fieldston wants to swap its slate roof for a substitute.

Also listed: additions and dormers at 104 Richmond Road in Douglaston, a rear addition at 797 Madison Avenue, a lift at 9-11 West 54th Street, signage at 401 West 14th Street, and legalization work at 332 St. Paul’s Avenue on Staten Island.

The rules rewrite

The commission is also proposing amendments to its Title 63 rules covering restoration, storefronts and awnings, windows and doors, rooftop and rear additions, excavation, yards, barrier-free access, sidewalks and HVAC equipment, plus permit rescission and enforcement.

What the notice does not say

The notice does not describe what the rule changes actually do, only which sections they touch. The final order and estimated times go up on the LPC website the Friday before the hearing.

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