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1000 Fifth Avenue (Metropolitan Museum of Art), application for a skylight replacement
At the regularly scheduled monthly Community Board Five meeting on Thursday, March 14, 2024, the following resolution passed with a vote of 39 in favor; 1 opposed; 1 abstaining:
WHEREAS, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an Individual Landmark built 1864-1990 and designed in stages by Vaux and Mould, R.M. Hunt, McKim Mead and White and others in a Beaux Arts style museum; and
WHEREAS, The application is for the replacement of deteriorating skylights with monel standing seam roof at Wing J and Wing D roof over the Ancient Near East and Cypriot Galleries is outside the designated interior landmark Great Hall; and
WHEREAS, This replacement will be undergone during a planned update to the exhibitions within the museum, and the intended exhibits do not require any natural light; and
WHEREAS, This renovation will include modifications within the the museum, though outside of the interior landmark Great Hall, which will have a positive impact on accessibility within the exhibit; and
WHEREAS, The planned changes affecting the Landmark are summarized as follows:
- The proposed standing seam Monel roof cladding will address the deterioration of existing skylights which are above the 15,000 Sq. ft. gallery that is being renovated after approximately 100 years;
- Will maintain visual continuity and symmetry to the 5th Avenue facade;
- Improve energy efficiency of the building envelope; and
WHEREAS, The Committee determined the proposed skylight removal will not impact the daylight as no daylight is transferred from the skylight through the galleries below, and
WHEREAS, The new Monel panelized roof system will match the existing Wing J Monel apron and mirror the existing monel roofing at Wing E which was previously replaced; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That Community Board Five recommends approval for the application to replace the existing glass skylights to Monel metal roof over the Ancient Near East and Cypriot Galleries which are adjacent to the Great Hall.