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The Landmarks subcommittee heard LPC's pitch to designate a jazz-history cluster: the Hotel Cecil and Minton's Playhouse (birthplace of bebop), Duke Ellington's longtime 935 St. Nicholas Avenue home, and Dizzy Gillespie's Queens residence , what LPC called its 'jazz trio' , alongside the Bronx Opera House, a 1908 Bronx firehouse, and a Brooklyn fire-alarm telegraph bureau. Save Harlem Now's Claudette Brady testified in support of the Harlem sites. The lone friction: two representatives of the Gillespie house's owner spoke in opposition. The session also advanced the 244 East 106th St ShareNYC
“result of LPC-initiated surveys, including our work to identify sites significant to Latino and African American history”
— Kate Lemis McHale
“The designation receives support from the chief of ladder company 38, as well as representatives of the New York Landmarks Conservancy”
— Kate Lemis McHale
“representatives of LPC, including Director of Research, Kate Lemis McHale, and Director of Community and intergovernmental affairs Stephen Thompson”
— Farah N. Louis
“the project will be on East 106th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, adjacent to an existing building managed by Ascendant”
— James Chukov
HPD presented this supportive-housing item as the descendant of its 2018 Request for Expressions of Interest exploring how shared housing could work, framing the 244 East 106th Street project as the realization of that RFEI. No vote was recorded at this hearing; the item was presented for testimony.
LPC took up the designation of the early-20th-century Fire Alarm Telegraph Bureau, Bronx Central Office, located in Bronx Park, tied to FDNY's post-1870 fire-alarm telegraph communications history. Heard as one of the Bronx landmark items at this session.
The Bronx Opera House came before LPC for designation as a George Keister-designed 1912 Italian Renaissance-style theater that anchored neighborhood entertainment for nearly 50 years before becoming a Latin music venue. Presented for testimony as part of the Bronx group.
LPC heard the proposed individual landmark designation of the Engine Company 88/Ladder 38 firehouse in Belmont, a 1908 FDNY-owned house built to serve the area's growing population. Presented as part of the Bronx group of designations heard at this session.
LPC's designation of 935 St. Nicholas Avenue, a distinguished 1915 Gothic Revival apartment building in the jazz-trio designation set, drew unanimous support and no opposition: backing testimony came from Manhattan Community Board 12, the Historic Districts Council, and the NY Landmarks Conservancy, and Councilmember Abreu added his support.
The Hotel Cecil/Minton's designation came before LPC with across-the-board support and notably no owner opposition: testimony in favor came from representatives of the owner itself, the Historic Districts Council, the NY Landmarks Conservancy, and Save Harlem Now.
The Dizzy Gillespie Residence in Corona drew mostly support but was the session's contested item: the Historic Districts Council, the Corona East Elmhurst Preservation Society, two individuals, Assemblymember Jeffrion Aubry, and the NY Landmarks Conservancy backed it, while two representatives of the owner opposed the designation.
+2 more procedural steps
Kate Lemis McHale · Claudette Brady · Committee Clerk (unnamed)
Every parcel, owner, and applicant in this meeting, cross-referenced against Zonable’s NYC ownership, enforcement & legislative graph — the record behind the record.
Owner portfolios, open OATH/ECB violations, 311 & DOB permits across every parcel discussed, developer track records, and an “ask this meeting” chat. For this meeting: an owner of a discussed site controls a 77-parcel portfolio.