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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