Evan Bindelglass reports for New York Yimby: Landmarks Approves 16-story building for 8-10 West 17th Street. On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission gave the okay to demolish the existing building at 8-10 West 17th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues) and construct a new one in its place. The existing building, designed by Belfatto & Pavarini, is three-stories-tall and home to the Catholic
Evan Bindelglass reports for Curbed: Extell’s 16-Story Park Ave. Building Fails to impress Landmarks. Previously on an extended-length episode of the Adventures of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, a plan was presented to replace the existing rectory and parish hall building next to the Park Avenue Christian Church with a 16-story mixed-use condo building. It took three hours and left us with a cliffhanger. Well,
Christopher Gray reports for The New York Times: The Courthouse That Escaped the Gavel. The Preservation of Greenwich Village’s Jefferson Market Courthouse. The 1877 Jefferson Market Courthouse, as it appeared in 1906. Once considered dispensable, it is today a public library. Preservationists of the 1950s who sought to save the Jefferson Market Courthouse of 1877 had no landmarks law to back them
Evan Bindelglass reports for Curbed: Opponents Lambast Plan To Replace Parts of Park Ave. Church. The word “epic” definitely applied to yesterday’s meeting of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The case at hand: prolific developer Extell’s plan to replace the Park Avenue Christian Church’s rectory and parish hall with a 16-story mixed-use apartment building, using some money from the development to fund
