CB6 Tries to Avoid Amity Street Horror
Last month Community Board 6’s Landmarks/Land Use Committee got a glimpse at plans for the largest development site in the Cobble Hill Historic District. Their verdict? “We weren’t thrilled,” according to a committee member who spoke at this week’s CB6 general board meeting. The plans are for the Lamm Institute building at 110 Amity Street…
Last month Community Board 6’s Landmarks/Land Use Committee got a glimpse at plans for the largest development site in the Cobble Hill Historic District. Their verdict? “We weren’t thrilled,” according to a committee member who spoke at this week’s CB6 general board meeting. The plans are for the Lamm Institute building at 110 Amity Street and an adjacent parcel that Long Island College Hospital sold to Time Equities for $6.125 million in June, according to public records. Time Equities, whose many projects include Schermerhorn House, is applying to the LPC to get permission to build a rooftop bulkhead on the existing building, a Charles Hough design that was built in 1903 as a nurses’ residence, as well as six townhouses behind 110 Amity (see pics). The board’s committee members thought the planned townhouses looked out of context (anyone have a rendering they’d like to share with us?) and want the developer to present the plans to the Cobble Hill Association before resubmitting them to CB6 and the LPC.
Yowza! The Lamm Institute’s For Sale [Brownstoner] GMAP
They were already doing demo today (Thursday, December 20/)
Where was LPC back in ’85 or so when the trailers were placed in the backyard of this building? They were there for years and years. Anyone remember the exact dates?
I’d hope that a full renovation of the building would only bring it up to date, without much overall footprint difference, but anything would be better than the crappy trailers and louvered fencing that was there for far too long.
Welcome to the world of buying into a landmarked district. You know what you’re getting into.
P.S. IMHO: That’s why there’s a premium for nice landmark neighborhoods like BH, PS & Cobble Hill. They’re very beautiful because their historical integrity has been upheld.
Yeah, 5:36, you’re right.
If we left it to you, anybody could build anything they wanted, and lo and behold, the neighborhood would look like Rahway, NJ (no offense).
Oh, but then the property value in the area would be 10% of what it is, and you’d have no interest anymore. Interesting short-term thinking you’ve got.
It is a crime when a property owner has to have his plans approved by strangers with selfish interest before the land owners rights.
1:26, that was also my reaction when I read the recent post about 72 Poplar: bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/11/former_heights.php. Who doesn’t need a 28,000 square foot Italianate villa?
Why doesn’t a hedge fund exec buy this and make it into a single family house? It kind of looks like an aritocratic city palace. Go for it!
How can they build on top of the existing structure? Is the building not landmarked? I know some of the buildings in LICH are not.
It’s funny that we can’t so much as change the paint on our door in landmarked districts but a developer can add another story. Ridiculous!