Recent applications of interest at the Landmarks Preservation Commission:

770 Broadway (old Wanamaker Building): "facade restoration at old connecting
bridge [once] at East 9th Street... 4th-6th floor", Cost: $150,000
Architect: Vincent Stramandinoli

Brooklyn Borough Hall: replace existing terne-coated stainless steel batten
seam roof with a new copper batten seam roof, Cost: $1.5 million [oops!]
Architect: Ken Bainton, Kouzmanoff Partnership
Conservator: Building Conservation Associates

The Osborne, 205 West 57th: air condition lobby, Cost: $45,000
Architect: Walter B. Melvin

34 Livingston Street, Brooklyn: "existing wood cornice has follen off the
building in a rain storm.  Replace the wood cornice with a foam molded and
fiberglass cornice to match...", Cost: $7,500
No A/E or contractor listed

14-22 Leonard Street: "after taking extensive measures to save the facades at
20-22 Leonard, circumstances beyond our control require us to seek your
permission to dismantle the existing facades and rebuild them to match the
original", Cost: not stated
Architect: Joe Lombardi

351 Hollywood Avenue, Douglaston [in shaky manuscript:] "remove dying Norway
Maple Tree 24" in diameter infected with verticklium wilt", Cost: $2000

162 West 88th: "detach ivy from building facade, install cables to future
climbing" and repair masonry, Cost: $25,000
Contractor: Cypress Construction

Gould Memorial Library, Bronx Community College [old uptown NYU campus]:
"re-attachment of sixteen plaster statues to their bases with an injected
resin...repair of existing stature arms" [these are the slightly wobbly
statues that ring the gallery terrace of this astounding interior - look out
below!], Cost: $48,000
Contractor: Rod Stewart, Historic Plaster Conservation Ltd, Ontario

Chrysler Building: "chemical cleaning of masonry facades", Cost: $500,000
Architect: LZA Technology
Contractor: Arcade Building Services

14 Verandah Place, Brooklyn: "three 1" x 7" [sic] boards around door are
rotted and off, must be replaced and painted", Cost $30.00
No architect listed!!! (Open season on this project!)

245 Fenimore Street, Brooklyn: "We would like to put vinyl siding on our
house.  After changing some rotting wood, we conclude it would be better to
put siding since the house is very drafty in the winter time.  This ... would
enhance the looks and durability of this old house", Cost: $13,500

Posted by:

Christopher Gray
Office for Metropolitan History
246 West 80th Street, #8, NYC  10024
212-799-0520  fax -0542
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