Joe Anuta reports for Crain’s: Manhattan boro prez seeks more landmarks. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer plans to introduce legislation that would require the city Landmarks Preservation Commission to consider any building older than 50 years for review, whenever a developer files permits to demolish it, she announced Friday. The proposed legislation would require the commission to take 30 days
Andrew J. Hawkins reports for Crain’s: De Blasio zeroes in on landmarks appointment. Mayor Bill de Blasio is close to filling another hole in his administration: chair of the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. Several names are on the short list, two of whom are Ward Dennis, a partner at Higgins Quasebarth and Partners, LLC, a historic preservation consultant firm; and Kate Daly, the Landmarks Preservation
Zoe Rosenberg reports for Curbed: 130 Seventh Ave. South’s Revised ‘Glacier’ Fails To Woo LPC With their prior success in creating historically sensitive designs, BKSK Architects thought they might have done so again yesterday when presenting their renderings for a mixed-use project at 130 Seventh Avenue South to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Since the project’s initial design, courtesy of Peter Sampton, was
Eric Jankiewicz reports for Curbed. Today, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved plans for a new building at 100 Franklin Street, a development they sent back to the drawing board in November. Peter Guthrie of the development and design team at DDG presented a completely different design, stripped of all the elements that had once made Tribecans seethe. “I think this
