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Commission approves maintenance plan for Metropolitan Club to enable transfer of development rights
Summary
The Landmarks Preservation Commission issued a favorable report for a continuing maintenance plan for the Metropolitan Club, allowing the club to transfer unused development rights under Zoning Resolution Section 7‑542 after the commission’s conditions are recorded and funds established.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted Sept. 30 to issue a favorable report on a continuing maintenance plan for the Metropolitan Club at 1 East 60th Street, enabling the club to transfer unused development rights pursuant to Zoning Resolution Section 7‑542.
Melanie Myers, attorney for the applicant, said the application seeks the commission’s report required under the recently adopted Section 7‑542, which allows individual landmarks to sell unused development rights to receiving sites on adjacent blocks when a continuing maintenance plan is in place. “The plan that we’ll be presenting today builds on precedents established by East Midtown transfers,” Myers told the commissioners.
Mick Doyle of Atchison Doyle Partners, the club’s architect of record, outlined recent and planned conservation work. Doyle said the building—designed in the 1890s…
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