APPLICATION APPROVED on 04/09/2013

East Village/Lower East Side Historic District
Between First Avenue and Avenue A

Image courtesy of Google Street View

—- APPLICATION INFORMATION —-

1) From the LPC agenda: A building originally built as a house in 1841 and redesigned as a neo-Classical style synagogue by Herman Horenburger in 1910. Application is to construct a rooftop addition. Zoned R7-2.

2) LPC Designation Report: An architectural and historical description of the building is available in the designation report.

3) Photos of the application: Available in PDF; Village Preservation photos of rooftop mock-up from across East 6th Street and from Village View Houses.

4) Receive updates by email:
Please click here if you would like Village Preservation to email you when there are updates to the status of this application.

—- HEARING TIMES & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT —-

1) Community Board 3 public hearing
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 6:30pm
JASA/Green Residence, 200 East 5th Street

Please note: The Community Board 3 Landmarks Subcommittee does not always meet to view proposals in advance of the LPC public hearing. If this is the case, we will have photographs of the proposal available on this page on the Friday before the scheduled LPC hearing. You can also view this proposal in person by attending the materials viewing in the public hearing room of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (The Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, 9th floor), which takes place the Friday before the scheduled public hearing from 10am – 2pm.

As this information is subject to change, please visit the community board’s website for the latest available agenda.


2) Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearing:

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at time TBD
The Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, 9th Floor North, public hearing room

On the Friday afternoon before the hearing, please click the agenda link on the LPC public calendar for the approximate hearing time (we recommend that you arrive 30 minutes prior). Note that items can sometimes be postponed (laid over) to a future date. At this hearing, the Commission will officially vote to approve or deny the application, or ask that the applicant return at a later date with revisions. Public attendance and testimony are welcome (note: this will most likely be the last opportunity for public comment on this application).


3) Email Community Board 3 or the Landmarks Preservation Commission
If you cannot attend the public hearing but would still like to comment, please click here to contact the Community Board or the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Be sure to send them your comments before the hearing date indicated above.

—- STATUS OF THIS APPLICATION —-

This section provides updates if there are changes to the hearing dates listed above, which includes instances when an application has been laid over (aka postponed). If applicable, LPC public meeting dates for this application will also be tracked here. You can read more about public meetings on our blog, Off the Grid.

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As of:

  • 4/10/13: Application approved at yesterday’s public hearing, and is now closed. The commissioners asked that the applicant work with LPC staff to address the visibility of the rooftop addition by either setting it back further, reducing the scale, using a darker color, or choosing a different cladding material. (The addition is not visible from within the historic district, but it is from outside it. They felt the scale overwhelmed the existing structure.)
  • 3/22/13: LPC hearing rescheduled for 4/9.
  • 3/7/13: GVSHP has confirmed with the LPC that this application has been laid over and will not be presented in March. The applicant at the community board meeting indicated the hearing would be on April 9th, but the LPC could not confirm this. We will update this page as soon as we know more.