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CB1 Says Proposed Building Worthy of Jersey, Not Tribeca
The design, a glass and steel box, was kept to one story because of an easement on the property limiting the height to protect the views of neighboring residential buildings. The property is now a parking lot. Architect Barry Silberstang had hardly unveiled a rendering of the proposed structure when CB1’s Landmarks Committee dismissed it as unacceptable. Bruce Ehrmann, the committee’s co-chairman and a neighbor of the site, said the design was inappropriate for the Tribeca West Historic District. The resolution, later passed by the full community board, was unsparingly disdainful of the proposal. “This design would be more appropriate in a strip mall in Queens—no, that denigrates Queens; perhaps a strip mall in New Jersey” reads the resolution, in part. It also called the proposal “A complete travesty....one requiring the wearing of a garlic necklace for protection.” The resolution ended with a request urging the Landmarks Preservation Commission to “throttle, dispatch, and reject this application.” Silberstang said he was surprised by the board’s response to the design, saying it evoked “the Tribeca vernacular,” but the architect cancelled his appearance last month before the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
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