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Commission grants retroactive certificate for Fourth Avenue facade changes, with future restoration conditions
Summary
The commission retroactively approved unpermitted exterior changes at 130½ Fourth Avenue (replacement windows, modified stoop and altered entrance) with conditions that future door, window and railing work return to historically appropriate configurations when replaced.
The Historic Resources Commission voted to retroactively approve exterior modifications made before the current owner’s purchase at 130½ Fourth Avenue, subject to conditions that any future replacement of doors, windows and stoop railings be carried out in a historically appropriate manner.
Planning staff had denied the retroactive application, citing unpermitted removal of ornate iron handrails replaced with plain wood railings, conversion of historic two‑over‑two wood sash windows to modern one‑over‑one aluminum windows, and alteration of a historic…
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