Art Commission Meeting Agenda Monday, December 10, 2007

Public Meeting

1:10 p.m. Consent Items

23015: Conservation of the portrait of Ward Benjamin Burnett (1854) by James Hamilton Shegogue, first floor hallway, City Council’s side, City Hall, . (Final)

23016: Conservation of the portrait of Henry Clay (1854) by Charles Wesley Jarvis, hallway outside Bullpen, City Hall, Manhattan. (Final)

23017: Conservation of the portrait of Stephen Allen (1824) by Samuel L. Waldo, East Chamber, Governor’s Room, City Hall, Manhattan. (Final)

23018: Conservation of the portrait of Peter Stuyvesant (1808) by John Trumbull, East Chamber, Governor’s Room, City Hall, Manhattan. (Final)

23019: Conservation of the portrait of Alexander Macomb (1815) by Samuel L. Waldo, East Chamber, Governor’s Room, City Hall, Manhattan. (Final)

23020: Conservation of the portrait of Martin Van Buren (1830) by Henry Inman, Bullpen, City Hall, Manhattan. (Final)

23021: Conservation of the portrait of Thomas Jefferson (1863) by Charles Wesley Jarvis, Bullpen, Governor’s Room, City Hall, Manhattan. (Final)

23022: Conservation of the portrait of Jose Antonio Paez (1851) by Charles Wesley Jarvis, stairwell between the first and second floor, Mayor’s side, City Hall, Manhattan. (Preliminary)

23023: Conservation of the portrait of William L. Strong (1898) by Boris Kramer- Scheriro, Art Commission rotunda, City Hall, Manhattan. (Preliminary)

23024: Conservation of the portrait of William F. Havemeyer (1847) by Thompkins Matteson, hallway outside speechwriters’ room, City Hall, Manhattan. (Preliminary)

23025: Conservation of the portrait of Enos Thompson Throop (1833) by Robert W. Weir, East Chamber, Governor’s Room, City Hall, Manhattan. (Preliminary)

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23026: Conservation of the portrait of Daniel D. Tompkins (1808) by John Trumbull, Middle Chamber, Governor’s Room, City Hall, Manhattan. (Preliminary)

23027: Conservation of the portrait of Stephen Decatur (1814) by Thomas Sully, East Chamber, Governor’s Room, City Hall, Manhattan. (Preliminary)

23028: Installation of a louver panel, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Laboratory Building, 455 First Avenue, Manhattan. (Preliminary and Final) (CC 6, CB 2) DOHMH

23029: Construction of an electric utility hub building, New York Aquarium, Surf Avenue and West 8th Street, . (Final) (CC 47, CB 13) DCulA/DPR

23030: Conservation of the James Gordon Bennett Memorial (Minerva and the Bellringers) (1940) by Aymar Embury II, including sculptures, clock and clock faces (1894) by Jean Antonin Carles, , , Avenue of the Americas, West 34th Street and West 35th Street, Manhattan. (Final) (CC 3, CB 5) DPR

23031: Reconstruction of a playground and tot lot, Athens Square Park, 30th Street, 30th Avenue, . (Preliminary) (CC 22, CB 1) DPR

23032: Reconstruction of a portion of a playground, Thomas J. , 34th Avenue between 77th Street and 78th Street, Queens. (Preliminary) (CC 25, CB 3) DPR

23033: Expansion of the Hospital for Special Surgery, East 70th Street, East 72nd Street, western edge of the FDR Drive and the East River, Manhattan. (Preliminary) (CC 5, CB 8) DOT

23034: Construction of a portion of the esplanade as a pilot study for Phase I, East River Waterfront, Maiden Lane to Pine Street, Manhattan. (Preliminary) (CC 1 & 2, CB 1 & 3) DCP/EDC/SBS

23035: Reconstruction of the esplanade and construction of the archipelago as part of Phase I, East River Waterfront, Wall Street to Rutgers Slip, Manhattan. (Preliminary) (CC 1 & 2, CB 1 & 3) DCP/EDC/SBS

22972: Installation of a memorial to the victims of 9/11, Promenade, Richmond County Bank Ballpark, north shore, Staten Island. (Final) (CC 49, CB 1) EDC

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Public Hearing

23036: Construction of a parking garage, Site B, East 164th Street, River Avenue, East Jerome Avenue, Yankee Stadium, Bronx. (Preliminary) (CC 17, CB 4) EDC/DPR

23037: Installation of streetscape improvements, Phase I, Jackson Avenue between Queens Plaza South and 21st Street, including McKenna Triangle at Jackson Avenue and 45th Avenue, Rafferty Triangle at Hunter Street and 44th Drive, and three Greenstreet triangles at Jackson Avenue and 46th Avenue, Hunter Street and Crescent Street, and Hunter Street and 27th Street, Queens. (Preliminary) (CC 26, CB 2) EDC/DOT/DPR

23038: Installation of security bollards, Jewish Community Center, 334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan. (Preliminary and Final) (CC 6, CB 7) DOT

23039: Reconstruction of a canopy, Keener Administration Building, Charles Gay Homeless Shelter, 1 Wards Island, Manhattan. (Preliminary and Final) (CC 22, CB 11) DDC

1:15 p.m. 23040: Construction of a marina, including a two-story retail building, Beach 80th Street between Beach Channel Drive and Barbados Basin, Queens. (Preliminary) (CC 31, CB 14) EDC

1:35 p.m. 23041: Construction of a comfort station, Washington Market Park, Chambers Street, , Duane Street and West Street, Manhattan. (Preliminary) (CC 1, CB 301) DPR

1:55 p.m. 23042: Construction of an addition and adjacent site work, Black Spectrum Theatre, , Merrick Boulevard, 115th Avenue and Baisley Boulevard, Queens. (Preliminary) (CC 27, CB 12) DPR

2:15 p.m. 23043: Construction of an amphitheater, North, Crotona Park East, Cleremont Parkway and Crotona Avenue, Crotona Park, Bronx. (Preliminary) (CC 15, CB 3) DPR

2:35 p.m. 23044: Reconstruction of Hester Street playground and plaza and partial rehabilitation of Building D, Sara D. Roosevelt Park, Forsyth Street, Chrystie Street, East Houston Street and , Manhattan. (Preliminary) (CC 1, CB 3) DPR

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2:55 p.m. 23014: Installation of a prototypical newsstand, southwest corner of Second Avenue and East 80th Street, Manhattan. (Preliminary and Final) (CC 5, CB 8) DConA

Any person requiring reasonable accommodation to participate in the hearing should call or write the Commission no later than three business days prior to the meeting. Art Commission, City Hall, Third Floor New York, New York 10007 Tel: 212-788-3071, Fax: 212-788-3086