Public Design Commission Annual Report

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

21161

Installation of rooftop mechanical equipment, Bedford Library, 496 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

DDC

BPL

Public

Building systems & Modifications

Installation of specific elements

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

21430

Replacement of the roof and installation of rooftop mechanical equipment, Leonard Library, 81 Devoe Street, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

DDC

BPL

Public

Building systems & Modifications

Installation of specific elements

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

22223

Reconstruction of a swimming pool and skating rink (Lasker Rink) and adjacent site work, between East Drive and the Harlem Meer, Central Park, Manhattan

Manhattan

DPR

CPC

Public and Private

Architecture

Reconstruction

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

22754

Reconstruction of the bulkhead and installation of a guardrail, Front Avenue at 2nd Street (formerly Pier D), Brooklyn Navy Yard Industrial Park, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

BNYDC

Public

Landscape architecture

Reconstruction

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

22762

Installation of rooftop mechanical equipment, Service Building, Bowery Bay Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility, 43-01 Berrian Boulevard, Astoria, Queens

Queens

DEP

Public

Building systems & Modifications

Installation of specific elements

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

23635

Installation of Water Table by Jerome Haferd, East River Esplanade, 107th Street Pier, and Bobby Wagner Walk, East 94th Street to 107th Street, and East 117th Street to East 124th Street, Manhattan

Manhattan

EDC

DPR

Public

Artwork

Installation of specific elements

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

23792

Construction of façade and entrance improvements, Arthur Ashe Stadium, United States Tennis Association's Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, Queens

Queens

DPR

USTA

Public and Private

Architecture

Construction

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

23793

Construction of a hospitality building (Player Performance Building), including a parking garage, United States Tennis Association's Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, Queens

Queens

DPR

USTA

Public

Architecture

Construction

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

23950

Construction of an annex building, Horizon Juvenile Center, 560 Brooke Avenue, Bronx

Bronx

DDC

ACS

Public

Architecture

Construction

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24018

Conservation and relocation of a mural (1973) by Ilya Bolotowsky, from North Central Bronx Hospital, 3424 Kossuth Avenue to Lincoln Hospital, 234 East 149th Street, Bronx

Bronx

HHC

Public

Artwork

Conservation

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24031

Reconstruction of the 79th Street Boat Basin, including the construction of a boathouse, Riverside Park and the Hudson River between 80th Street and 73rd Street, Manhattan

Manhattan

EDC

DPR

Public

Architecture

Reconstruction

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24069

Reconstruction of Canarsie Branch Library, 1580 Rockaway Parkway, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

BPL

Public

Architecture

Reconstruction

Approved

2

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24071

Reconstruction of a mixed-use building, including construction of a residential tower, 395 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

HPD

Public and Private

Architecture

Reconstruction

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24115

Installation of façade graphics for a stadium, as part of Phase II of Willets Point, 126th Street, 127th Street, and Willets Point Boulevard between 38th Avenue and 35th Avenue, Corona, Queens

Queens

EDC

Public and Private

Architecture

Installation of specific elements

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24130

Reconstruction of an ADA ramp, New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan

Manhattan

DOT

Private

Building systems & Modifications

Reconstruction

Approved per delegation

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24131

Installation of rooftop equipment, Building A (Made in NY-North), Bush Terminal Industrial Campus, 13 42nd Street, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

EDC

Public

Building systems & Modifications

Installation of specific elements

Approved per delegation

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24132

Minor modifications to the reconstruction of a community center, 70 Mulberry Street at Bayard Street, Manhattan

Manhattan

DDC

DCAS

Public

Architecture

Reconstruction

Approved per delegation

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24133

Minor modifications to the construction of the Douglaston-Little Neck Library, 249-01 Northern Boulevard, Little Neck, Queens

Queens

DDC

QPL

Public

Architecture

Construction

Approved per delegation

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24139

Installation of astros by Ronny Quevedo, southwest corner of Queens Boulevard and Woodhaven Boulevard, as part of the reconstruction of Queens Boulevard, Elmhurst, Queens

Queens

DCLA%

DDC/DOT

Public

Artwork

Installation of specific elements

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24140

Installation of Bookmobile and Crown by Melvin Nesbitt Jr., Red Hook Library, 7 Wolcott Street, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

DCLA%

EDC/BPL

Public

Artwork

Installation of specific elements

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24141

Rehabilitation of Washington Irving Branch Library and adjacent site work, 360 Irving Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

DDC

BPL

Public

Architecture

Rehabilitation

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24142

Reconstruction of the garden, Mapleton Branch Library, 1702 60th Street, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

DDC

BPL

Public

Landscape architecture

Reconstruction

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24143

Construction of prototypical sidewalk extensions and medians as part of the design for select bus service citywide, 79th Street Crosstown M79 service, West 79th Street between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue, West 79th Street and a portion of the Broadway Malls, West 81st Street and Central Park West, East 79th Street and Fifth Avenue, East 79th Street between Madison Avenue and Park Avenue, East 79th Street between Lexington Avenue and FDR Drive, and East 80th Street between York Avenue and FDR Drive, Manhattan

Manhattan

DDC

DOT/DPR

Public

Landscape architecture

Construction

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24144

Reconstruction of an office building for use as a police precinct, DEP Police 7th Precinct, 750 McLean Avenue, Yonkers, Westchester County

Upstate

DEP

Public

Architecture

Reconstruction

Approved w/ conditions

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24145

Construction of an electrical substation and adjacent site work, Owls Head Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility, 6700 Shore Road, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

DEP

Public

Architecture

Construction

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24146

Rehabilitation of the Upper Effluent Chamber as part of the Kensico-Eastview Connection Project, Kensico Reservoir, 19 Westlake Drive, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County

Upstate

DEP

Public

Building systems & Modifications

Rehabilitation

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24147

Construction of an electrical building and adjacent site work, Oakwood Beach Water Pollution Control Plant, 751 Mill Road, Staten Island

Staten Island

DEP

Public

Architecture

Construction

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24148

Construction of a wetland as part of the Kensico-Eastview Connection Project, adjacent to King Street and New York Highway Route 120, Big Peninsula, Kensico Reservoir, Town of New Castle, Westchester County

Upstate

DEP

Public

Landscape architecture

Construction

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24149

Stabilization of the shoreline between the Upper Effluent Chamber and the cove as part of the Kensico-Eastview Connection Project, Kensico Reservoir, Valhalla, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County

Upstate

DEP

Public

Landscape architecture

Stabilization

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24150

Reconstruction of Caserta Playground and installation of a subsurface detention system as a part of the Cloudburst Management Program for the Parkchester and Morris Park Cloudburst Hub, Odell Street, St. Raymond Avenue, and Purdy Street, Bronx

Bronx

DEP

DPR

Public

Landscape architecture

Reconstruction

Approved w/ conditions

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24151

Reconstruction of a portion of Bensonhurst Park, 21st Avenue, 21st Drive, Belt Parkway, Bay Parkway, and Cropsey Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

DPR

Public

Landscape architecture

Reconstruction

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24152

Reconstruction of a portion of Frederick Douglass Playground, West 100th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan

Manhattan

DPR

Public

Landscape architecture

Reconstruction

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24153

Reconstruction of a portion of Renaissance Playground, adjacent to P.S. 194, West 143rd Street, Frederick Douglass Boulevard, and West 144th Street, Manhattan

Manhattan

DPR

Public

Landscape architecture

Reconstruction

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24154

Reconstruction of a bike park, Reverend T. Wendell Foster Park, East 164th Street, River Avenue, and East 165th Street, Bronx

Bronx

DPR

Public

Landscape architecture

Reconstruction

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24155

Reconstruction of a portion of Equity Playground, adjacent to P.S. 60, 88th Avenue, 90th Street, and 89th Avenue, Woodhaven, Queens

Queens

DPR

Public

Landscape architecture

Reconstruction

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24156

Reconstruction of a portion of Maurice A. Fitzgerald Playground, 106th Street between 94th Avenue and Atlantic Avenue, Ozone Park, Queens

Queens

DPR

Public

Landscape architecture

Reconstruction

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24157

Reconstruction of Baseball Field #7, Juniper Valley Park, Juniper Boulevard South near 74th Street, Middle Village, Queens

Queens

DPR

Public

Landscape architecture

Reconstruction

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24158

Reconstruction of the Pelham Parkway malls, Phase II, White Plains Road to Stillwell Avenue, Bronx

Bronx

DPR

Public

Landscape architecture

Reconstruction

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24159

Installation of identification signage, Downtown Manhattan Heliport, Pier 6, 20 South Street, Manhattan

Manhattan

EDC

Public

Signage

Installation of specific elements

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24160

Reconstruction of a dock, Harper Street Yard, 30-01 Harper Street, Corona, Queens

Queens

EDC

DOT

Public

Architecture

Reconstruction

Approved w/ conditions

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24161

Reconstruction of the East River Esplanade, 107th Street Pier, and Bobby Wagner Walk, East 94th Street to East 107th Street, and East 117th Street to East 124th Street, Manhattan

Manhattan

EDC

DPR

Public

Landscape architecture

Reconstruction

Approved w/ conditions

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24162

Stabilization of the shoreline and restoration of wetlands, Pier 7, Bush Terminal Industrial Campus (Made in NY), adjacent to Marginal Way between 39th Street and 41st Street, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

EDC

SBS

Public

Landscape architecture

Stabilization

Approved

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24163

Installation of Wings of Everchange 易之翼 by Jennifer Wen Ma, 70 Mulberry Street, Manhattan

Manhattan

DCLA%

DDC/DCAS

Public

Artwork

Installation of specific elements

Approved w/ conditions

1

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24164

Reconstruction of Damrosch Park, including the reconstruction of the bandshell and streetscape improvements, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, West 62nd Street between Columbus Avenue and Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan

Manhattan

DPR

DOT

Public and Private

Landscape architecture

Reconstruction

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24165

Construction of an African burial ground memorial landscape, Flatbush African Burial Ground Park, Church Avenue and Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

DPR

Public

Landscape architecture

Construction

Withdrawn

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24166

Installation of fuel tanks, as part of the installation of standardized tank and fueling stations and related equipment citywide, 81st Precinct, 30 Ralph Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

DDC

NYPD

Public

Building systems & Modifications

Installation of specific elements

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24167

Reconstruction of the Reservoir Road Bridge and extension of the Ashokan Rail Trail as a part of the Ashokan Century Program, Ashokan Reservoir, Ulster County

Upstate

DEP

Public

Bridge

Reconstruction

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24168

Construction of the Roy Wilkins Recreation Center, Roy Wilkins Park, Merrick Boulevard between 118th Road and 119th Avenue, Jamaica, Queens

Queens

DDC

DPR

Public

Architecture

Construction

Commented

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

24169

Reconstruction of Lou Lodati Playground and the dog run, Torsney Playground, Skillman Avenue between 41st Street and 42nd Street, Sunnyside, Queens

Queens

DPR

Public

Landscape architecture

Reconstruction

Approved w/ conditions

1

2025-02-24T00:00:00.000

9173

Rehabilitation of the east façade, including the installation of signage, West Farms Branch Library, 2085 Honeywell Avenue, Bronx

Bronx

DDC

NYPL

Public

Architecture

Rehabilitation

Commented