The Public Design Commission’s 2020 annual report provides data on the PDC’s review of submissions as required by Local Law 17 of 2017. The report gives an overview of our collaborative interagency initiatives to streamline design review and improve the City’s public spaces for all New Yorkers.
Since 1983, the Public Design Commission has recognized outstanding public projects with its Annual Awards for Excellence in Design. The winning projects are selected from the hundreds of submissions reviewed by the Commission the previous year.
Designation report for 47 West 28th Street a c.1852 Italianate-style row house which was the site of numerous musicians' and sheet music publishers' offices in the 1890s-1900s and was part of a block known as "Tin Pan Alley."
Designation report for 49 West 28th Street a c.1852 Italianate-style row house which was the site of numerous musicians' and sheet music publishers' offices in the 1890s-1900s and was part of a block known as "Tin Pan Alley."
Designation report for 51 West 28th Street a c.1852 Italianate-style row house which was the site of numerous musicians' and sheet music publishers' offices in the 1890s-1900s and was part of a block known as "Tin Pan Alley."
Designation report for 53 West 28th Street a c.1852 Italianate-style row house which was the site of numerous musicians' and sheet music publishers' offices in the 1890s-1900s and was part of a block known as "Tin Pan Alley."
Designation report for 55 West 28th Street a c.1852 Italianate-style row house which was the site of numerous musicians' and sheet music publishers' offices in the 1890s-1900s and was part of a block known as "Tin Pan Alley."
Designed by Renwick, Aspinwall and Tucker, the ASPCA's finest surviving structure in New York City and the horse drinking fountain in front of it constitute an elegant reminder of the early promotion of humane treatment of animals, and New York's central role in the national anti-cruelty movement.
This report specifies all facilities managed by the Department with accessible features. Also listed in the report are projects (a) designed in 2018 to comply with the 2010 standards for accessible design, (b) which completed construction in 2019 which comply with the 2010 standards.
The Monumental BRT Central Power Station Engine House is a prominent reminder of the era when Gowanus Canal was a significant inland waterway and the Gowanus neighborhood was a major industrial center.