Community Board 7 will discuss a plan to make Riverside Drive more pedestrian and bike-friendly at 72nd and 79th street, hear plans for new restaurants and outdoor cafes, and discuss applications for changes to landmark buildings at its meeting on Tuesday. The meeting starts at 6:30 and is being held at Goddard Riverside Community Center, 593 Columbus Avenue at 88th Street.
As for the new restaurants, Lincoln Center plans to add a new eatery at 165 West 65th street called 10th Floor at Lincoln Center. And an applicant is applying for a liquor license at 165 West 72nd street, the current home of Kumo Sushi.
In addition, the board will vote on a resolution about Stonehenge Village, where the gym is closed to rent-stabilized tenants.
Check out the full agenda below:
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 6:30 PM
Goddard Riverside Community Center
593 Columbus Avenue at 88th Street
Proposed Agenda Subject to Change
Approval of minutes from previous full board meeting
Chair’s Report: Elizabeth R. Caputo
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
Reports by Legislators
Business Session
Parks & Environment Committee, Klari Neuwelt, Chairperson
Resolution Re:
1. Art Students League on “Model to Monument”, a temporary public art project in Riverside Park.
Housing Committee, Nick Prigo, Chairperson
Resolution Re:
2. Exclusion of stabilized tenants from communal building facilities at Westgate/Stonehenge.
Transportation Committee, Andrew Albert and Dan Zweig, Co-Chairpersons
Resolutions Re:
3. NYC Department of Transportation proposed pedestrian safety improvements on Riverside Drive and West 72nd Street.
4. NYC Department of Transportation proposed pedestrian safety improvements on Riverside Drive and West 79th Street.
The proposed changes are available Here.
Business & Consumer Issues Committee, Michele Parker and George Zeppenfeldt-Cestero, Co-Chairpersons
Resolutions Re:
Applications to the SLA for two-year liquor licenses:
5. 165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor at Lincoln Center, d/b/a To Be Determined, to include live music, with outdoor balcony space.
6. 165 West 72nd Street (Amsterdam Avenue.) LD & CJ Corp., d/b/a To Be Determined.
7. Unenclosed Café Renewal Applications:
- 270 Columbus Avenue (West 73rd Street.) Renewal application #1260284-DCA to the Department of Consumer Affairs by 276 Columbus Inc., d/b/a Arte Around the Corner, for a two-year consent to operate an unenclosed sidewalk café with 4 tables and 8 seats.
- 519 Columbus Avenue (West 85th Street.) Renewal application #1395448-DCA to the Department of Consumer Affairs by De La Fontaine, LLC, d/b/a “To be determined”, for a two-year consent to operate an unenclosed sidewalk café with 21 tables and 42 seats.
- 668 Amsterdam Avenue (West 92nd – 93rd Street.) Renewal application # 1139454-DCA to the Department of Consumer Affairs by Talias Restaurant Group, LLC, d/b/a Talia’s Steakhouse & Bar, for a two-year consent to operate an unenclosed sidewalk café with 9 tables and 36 seats.
- 732 Amsterdam Avenue (West 96th Street.) Renewal application #1138270 to the Department of Consumer Affairs by Le Se Amsterdam 732 Restaurant, Inc., d/b/a Dive Bar, for a two-year consent to operate an unenclosed sidewalk café with 7 tables and 17 seats.
8. 566 Amsterdam Avenue (West 87th -88th Streets.) Renewal application #1312628-DCA to the Department of Consumer Affairs by Jos Concept, LLC, d/b/a B Café West, for a two-year consent to operate an unenclosed sidewalk café with 7 tables and 14 seats.
New Unenclosed Café Applications:
9. 469 Columbus Avenue (West 82nd – 83rd Street.) New application #2103-2014-ASWC to the Department of Consumer Affairs by Lenny’s 83rd Street, LLC, d/b/a Lenny’s, for a two-year consent to operate an unenclosed sidewalk café with 6 tables and 12 seats.
10. 511 Amsterdam Avenue (West 84th – 85th Street.) New application #2017-2014-ASWC to the Department of Consumer Affairs by EE BAR, LLC, d/b/a EE’s, for a two-year consent to operate an unenclosed sidewalk café with 8 tables and 20 seats.
Preservation Committee, Jay Adolf and Gabrielle Palitz, Co-Chairpersons
Resolutions Re:
11. 48 West 71st Street, Apt. 2F (Central Park West – Columbus Avenue.) Application #146281 to the Landmarks Preservation Commission to replace windows.
12. 220 West 72nd Street, dba City Veterinary Care (Broadway – West End Avenue.)Application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission to erect two signs on the façade.
13. 35 West 92nd Street (Central Park West – Columbus Avenue.) Application #149571 to the Landmarks Preservation Commission to install a chimney flue.
14. 11 West 69th Street (Central Park West – Columbus Avenue.) Application #144092 to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for a window master plan.
15. 240 West 71st Street (Broadway – West End Avenue.) Application #14-6281 to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for replacement of parlor floor windows on the front facade, rear façade modifications and the addition of a bulkhead on the roof.
16. 132 West 78th Street (Columbus – Amsterdam Avenue.) Application #153592 to the Landmarks Preservation Commission to construct a rear yard addition.
17. 334 West 84th Street (West End Avenue-Riverside Drive.) Application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for a rooftop addition.
Mitchell Newspaper Delivery complaint: The delivery staff constantly leaves the white, long wrapping cords on the sidewalk and in the street for the very early morning deliveries to buildings. I have complained to Mitchell, but no response, and the cords continue to litter. Between this and the uncollected dog poop–now totally a grown problem–our side streets are a mess.
When old fossil hippies take over the whole culture of a neighborhood, righteously, humanity screams in anguish. There lies gravestones. Heavy ones. No music bands emerge there. No professionals high five and get drunk there. Not a single tube dress can be seen there for twenty years at a time. I know. I’ve been here that long, now age 48.
You still teach your kids that the Emperor has brilliant new clothes. My word, what utter fools. Global Warming and Modern Art are made of the same invisible cloth, and you all, each and every one of you, are fully aware of it. It’s not even hot out. And scribble art? Really?!
Landmarked the most blasé boring sliver of Manhattan did you? Welcome to the outdoors old folk’s home mall of Manhatta, where even dancing in pubs is illegal. A bank on every corner, and weird cake shops everywhere. Cake?!
Shame on you all for abusing all of your children with Gaian doomsday cult indoctrination.
Thanks to the Internet, us scientifically trained activists hung your latest hysteria out to dry.
Your comeuppance on fleeting foot approaches, as you double down on demagoguery.
What you talkin’ about Willis?