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Recent Landmarks Commission filings (recorded by Christopher Gray)

28 East 95th [brick and limestone townhouse with obvious burned areas] - 
filing to cure warning letters for removal of windows and facade cleaning 
with a chemical solvent without permit, $5000

Boathouse, Prospect Park [glazed terra cotta park building] - $1,800,000 - 
reconstruction of exterior of boathouse [Deja Vu  vu  vu   vu... ]

640 Park Avenue [neat limestone apartment house by York & Sawyer]  - $55,000 
- clean exterior - water soak method "no detergents or chemical agents ... to 
avoid burning the stone, there will be no ‘high' pressure"

128 West 72nd [battered rowhouse with storefront extension on commercial 
strip] - $160 - [handlettered application:] "We want to keep our sign ‘Poona' 
above central ground floor shopfront." Owner: Poona Restaurant

Chanin Building, 42nd & Lex - $57,000 - replicate portions of missing bronze 
frieze, ground floor

338-340 Clinton Avenue - $35,000 - remove rotted cornice, replace with exact 
copy - existing cornice about to collapse and presents an imminent danger" 
Contractor: Soxco Construction

806 Shore Road, Douglaston - $900 - "removal of unsafe, declining spruce tree"

45 West 81st, Hotel Excelsior - $25,000 - paint was stripped from cast 
limestone, but "it is irregular in color and blotchy" - request to paint this 
trim a limestone color

Apthorp, 79th & Broadway - $200,000 -  clean interior [limestone] courtyard 
by chemical cleaning 

St. Stephen's Church, 120 West 69th - $50,000 - "installation of voluntary 
handicap lift" 
Architect: John S. Hagmann

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