Community Board 7 meets Wednesday night at 6:30 at Goddard Riverside Community Center to consider a bunch of issues, including a proposed rooftop addition to the Apthorp on 79th street and a resolution dealing with the proposed 10-cent charge for plastic bags at supermarkets, a proposal supported by local Councilwoman Gale Brewer.
The agenda is below:
Full Board Meeting Agenda
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 6:30 PM
Goddard Riverside Community Center Final Agenda
593 Columbus Avenue at 88th Street
Approval of minutes from previous full board meeting
Chair’s Report: Mark N. Diller
Election of Board Officers for 2013-14 Evan Rosing, Chair, Elections Committee
Community Session – We welcome all members of our community (residents, businesses, CBOs) who would like to speak on issues of interest to them. Please limit remarks to two minutes and, if possible, provide a written copy for the record.
Manhattan Borough President’s Report: Rebecca Godlewicz
Reports by Legislators
Business Session
Transportation Committee, Andrew Albert and Dan Zweig, Co-Chairpersons
Resolutions Re:
1. Request for a secondary street naming of the northeast corner of West 77th Street and West End Avenue in honor of Miles Davis, who lived at 312 West 77th Street.
2. Request for a secondary street naming of the northeast corner of West 97th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in honor of Ariel Russo, who lived on the Upper West Side.
Preservation Committee
Jay Adolf and Gabrielle Palitz, Co-Chairpersons
Resolutions Re:
3. 2211 Broadway, aka 390 West End Avenue, The Apthorp (West 78th-79th Streets.) Application #143727 to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for rooftop addition to the Apthorp.
4. 1 Riverside Drive (West 72nd Street.) Application #14-5757 to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for Replacement of an exterior hatch exit with a staircase leading to the cellar.
5. 135 Central Park West (West 73rd – 74th Street.) Application #147161 to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for proposed amendment (Docket #136667) to the top of a “historic” entry gate at rear entry to The Langham.
6. 211 Central Park West #21-22E (West 81st – 82nd Street.) Application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for replacement of windows and terrace doors in Apt. 21-22E.
7. 128 West 82nd Street (Columbus – Amsterdam Avenues.) Application #135726 to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for the installation of a window in the rear façade as part of an approved gut renovation of the existing rowhouse.
8. 514 West End Avenue (West 85th Street.) Application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for a penthouse expansion.
9. 272, 274 & 276 West 86th Street (Broadway – West End Avenue.) Application #14-3539 to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for rooftop and rear yard additions.
10. 189 Columbus Avenue d/b/a Vive La Crepe (West 68th – 69th Street.) Application #147724 to the Landmarks Preservation Commission to legalize an existing storefront.
11. 313 West 74th Street (West End Avenue – Riverside Drive.) Application #142013 to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for legalization of a rooftop addition.
12. 250 West 77th Street, dba Belleclaire Hotel (Broadway – West End Avenue.) Application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for replacement and restoration of the storefront new signage and lighting.
Health & Human Services Committee
Madge Rosenberg and Barbara Van Buren, Co-Chairpersons
Resolutions Re:
13. Risk to the exposure of Radon.
14. The New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NYC HANES).
Parks & Environment Committee
Klari Neuwelt and Elizabeth Starkey, Co-Chairpersons
Resolution Re:
15. NYC Council Bill No. 1135-2013, which would require that retailers charge a minimum of ten cents for carryout bags.
Business & Consumer Issues Committee
Michele Parker and George Zeppenfeldt-Cestero, Co-Chairpersons
Resolutions Re:
16. 483 Amsterdam Avenue (West 83rd Street.) Application to the State Liquor Authority for a two-year liquor license by Nicky Meatballs, Inc, d/b/a Polpette.
17. Unenclosed Café Renewal Applications:
• 313 Amsterdam Avenue (West 75th Street.) Renewal application DCA# 1471902 to the Department of Consumer Affairs by Baby Oliver, LLC, d/b/a Piccolo Cafe, for a two-year consent to operate an unenclosed sidewalk café with 12 tables and 24 seats.
• 359 Columbus Avenue (West 76th – 77th Street.) Renewal application DCA# 0953473 to the Department of Consumer Affairs by 359 Columbus Avenue, LLC, d/b/a Isabella’s, for a two-year consent to operate an unenclosed sidewalk café with 28 tables and 74 seats.
• 568 Amsterdam Avenue (West 87th – 88th Street.) Renewal application DCA# 1273996 to the Department of Consumer Affairs by Mermaid 88, LLC, d/b/a The Mermaid Inn, for a two-year consent to operate an unenclosed sidewalk café with 10 tables and 20 seats.
18. 522 Columbus Avenue (West 85th Street.) Renewal application DCA# 0895505 to the Department of Consumer Affairs by Barjer Corp., d/b/a Firehouse Restaurant, for a two-year consent to operate an unenclosed sidewalk café with 11 tables and 29 seats.
19. 414 Amsterdam Avenue (West 80th Street.) New application DCA# 1471611 to the Department of Consumer Affairs by 4SK-414 Amsterdam Avenue LLC, d/b/a Pinkberry, for a two-year consent to operate an unenclosed sidewalk café with 5 tables and 11 seats.
20. Enclosed Café Renewal Applications:
• 2020 Broadway (West 69th Street.) Renewal application DCA# 0769760/ ULURP# N110004ECM to the Department of Consumer Affairs by First 69th Street Realty Corp., d/b/a Westside Restaurant, for a two-year consent to operate an enclosed sidewalk café with 17 tables and 34 seats.
• 300 Amsterdam Avenue (West 74th Street.) Renewal application DCA# 1218880/ ULURP# N120359ECM to the Department of Consumer Affairs by American Specialty Foods, Inc., d/b/a Josie Restaurant, for a two-year consent to operate an enclosed sidewalk café with 11 tables and 27 seats.
• 502 Amsterdam Avenue (West 84th-85th Streets.) Renewal application DCA#1146560/ ULURP# N120361ECM to the Department of Consumer Affairs by Romagica, Corp., d/b/a Celeste, for a two-year consent to operate an enclosed sidewalk café with 4 tables and 10 seats.
• 2483 Broadway (West 92nd- 93rd Street.) Renewal application DCA# 0916146/ ULURP# N120331ECM to the Department of Consumer Affairs by Hussien Environment, Inc., d/b/a Cleopatra’s Needle, for a two-year consent to operate an enclosed sidewalk café with 9 tables and 16 seats.
• 2787 Broadway (West 107th Street.) Renewal application DCA# 1147364/ ULURP# N120346ECM to the Department of Consumer Affairs by Hillview Specialty Food Inc., d/b/a 107th West Restaurant, for a two-year consent to operate an enclosed sidewalk café with 13 tables and 26 seats.
21. 441 Amsterdam Avenue (West 81st Street.) Renewal application DCA# 1283643/ ULURP# N120344ECM to the Department of Consumer Affairs by JPS Ventures, Inc. d/b/a St. James Cafe, for a two year consent to operate an enclosed sidewalk café with 5 tables and 16 seats.
Steering Committee
Mark Diller, Chair
Resolution Re:
22. Request for a leave of absence.
Would you want your meat and cheese wrapped in canvas that has been reused a hundred times a year without being cleaned at all? Reusing shopping bags is like reusing condoms. Tax condoms and you kill young people. Tax bags and you kill seniors who don’t bounce back from acute or chronic food poisoning.
-=NikFromNYC=-, Ph.D. in organic chemistry (Columbia)
Dr.NikFromNYC – You could not be more correct. Also – are we now expected to carry reusable bags with us wherever we go? It is not like we can keep them in the trunk of the car!
Are you listening CB7?
How about a conversation about the increases in violent crimes against our fellow upper west siders?
The return of fear city should not be inevitable.
@NikFromNYC: I have shopped for dozens of years in Europe without the use of plastic bags. Neither I, nor any of my elderly neighbors or relatives have suffered from anything even vaguely resembling acute or chronic food poisoning due to the use of canvas bags.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/07/plastic-bag-ban_n_2641430.html
“A research paper published last year by professors at the University of Pennsylvania and George Mason University found San Francisco’s ban on plastic bags has had significant negative repercussions on public health.
The study, released in August, found a spike in San Francisco hospital emergency room treatment due to E. coli infections and a 46 percent increase in deaths from foodborne illness in the three months after the bag ban went into effect in 2007. E. coli bacteria, common in the human intestine and frequent suspects in food poisoning, can range from harmless to lethal.”
@ Ken: Yes, you are now expected (perish the thought!) to carry reusable bags ‘wherever you go’. Be a little creative in your thinking – some shopping bags roll up to the size of three fingers; not to mention net bags, which fit inside a childs’s fist.