Gates Survive to Roll Down Another Day

Little Luna Variety Store owner Denise Taormina survived the first battle in her war to keep her non-compliant roll-down gates on the front of her Cobble Hill shop when Landmarks officials suggested they would be willing to entertain a compromise solution. Community Board 6 had voted against her request for a variance earlier this month. We were surprised to see LPC Head Bob Tierney weighing in at her hearing yesterdayI empathize and synpathize with you (but) gates like that are pretty much disallowed”)–we thought he would have been tied up with
the Whitney Museum presentation.
Rolling Out a Compromise [NY Daily News]