November 2018

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Transportation & Environment

Monday, October 22nd, 2018, at 6:00pm
Bryant Park Corporation
111 West 40th Street, #2400

David Harris Sandler, Chair
Sam Levy, Vice Chair

Agenda:

• NYCDOT Presentation on Citi Bike Infill Stations
• NYCDOT Update on L Train Rehabilitation Project
• Request for drop-off/pick-up area in front of The Ecole's preschool campus, located at 206 5th Avenue.

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Budget, Education & City Services

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018, at 6:00pm
SGI-USA NY Culture Center
7 East 15th Street

Renee Kinsella, Chair
Michael Goldberg, Vice Chair

Agenda

• Presentation by Picture the Homeless, a grassroots organization founded and led by homeless people. They will be speaking about the issues faced by the homeless with specific recommendations that would ease some of the challenges that they encounter.
• Completion of Statement of Needs and budget priorities.
• Presentation by the ARISE coalition regarding their request that the NYC Department of Education's 2020-2024 Capital budget for accessibility projects be increased to $850 million, so that 30% of the schools in each school district can be ADA accessible.

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Parks & Public Spaces

Monday, October 29th, 2018, at 6:00pm
Bryant Park Corporation
111 West 40th Street, #2400

Clayton Smith, Chair
Craig Slutzkin, Vice Chair

Agenda

• Presentation by the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership on its annual holiday art installation and public programming plans.
• A petition for a new revocable consent to construct and maintain a new snow-melt system at 15 East 57^th Street.
• Newsstand application for the northeast corner of 5th Avenue & 52nd Street.
• Application from Madison Square Park Conservancy for Holiday Marketing Event Experience from December 6th to December 24th.  A vendor market made up of small wooden chalets in the south gravel area inside Madison Square Park, to feature authentic European holiday decorations, goods, mulled wine and food.

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Landmarks

Tuesday, October 30th, 2018, at 6:00pm
Xavier High School
30 West 16th Street, 2nd Floor Library

Layla Law-Gisiko, Chair
Renee Cafaro, Vice Chair

Agenda

• 424 5th Avenue, WeWork Lord & Taylor, Application is to reconfigure ground-floor entry infill for egress and accessibility compliance; install canopies; construct rooftop addition, mechanical units, and stair bulkheads; replace building signage; install new masonry openings at secondary facade.
• 1560 Broadway, application to repair and restore the interior floors, walls, ceilings and decorative features, and to install non-permanent fixtures for a Pele Soccer store.
• 1178 Broadway, application to create exterior access ramp to entry of small commercial space on ground floor
• 768 5th Avenue, Plaza Hotel, application for renovation of the existing landmarked interiors of the Oak Room to include converting a non-landmarked storage room into two new handicap accessible bathrooms accessed from the north corridor.

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Executive

Monday, November 5th, 2018, at 5:00pm
Board Office
450 Seventh Avenue, #2109

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Full Board

Thursday, November 8th, 2018, at 6:00pm
Chelsea Television Studios
221 West 26th Street
b/w 7th and 8th Avenues

Vikki Barbero, Chair

Agenda

Landmarks

• 424 5th Avenue, WeWork Lord & Taylor, Application is to reconfigure ground-floor entry infill for egress and accessibility compliance; install canopies; construct rooftop addition, mechanical units, and stair bulkheads; replace building signage; install new masonry openings at secondary facade.
• 1560 Broadway, application to repair and restore the interior floors, walls, ceilings and decorative features, and to install non-permanent fixtures for a Pele Soccer store.
• 1178 Broadway, application to create exterior access ramp to entry of small commercial space on ground floor.

Parks and Public Spaces

• Application from Chanel, Inc. & Subsidiaries for revocable consent from the DOT to construct, maintain and use a sidewalk snow melting system in front of the retail/office building located at 15 East 57th Street in Manhattan.
• Newsstand application for the northeast corner of 5th Avenue & 52nd Street.

Budget, Education and City Services

• Completion of Statement of Needs and budget priorities.
• ARISE coalitionrequest that the NYC Department of Education's 2020-2024 Capital budget for accessibility projects increased, so that 30% of the schools in each school district can be ADA accessible.

Transportation/Environment

• Application for a “No Parking” zone in front of The Ecole School campus, located at 206 5th Avenue, to facilitate drop-off and pick-up before and after school.

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