{"id":359505,"date":"2026-09-29T04:08:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T04:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359505\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T04:08:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T04:08:39","slug":"ev-grieve-lpc-set-to-revisit-new-building-proposed-next-to-merchants-house-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359505\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: LPC set to revisit new building proposed next to Merchant’s House Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The fate of a proposed new building next to the Merchant’s House Museum<\/a> is back before the Landmarks Preservation Commission this week.\u00a0Tomorrow, the LPC is expected to review plans for a 9-story, 105-foot-tall building at 27 E. Fourth St., adjacent to the landmarked 19th-century house museum between Lafayette Street and the Bowery, according to Village Preservation<\/a>.\u00a0The proposal previously came before the Commission in March<\/a>, when it drew extensive public testimony in opposition. Commissioners did not discuss or vote on the application at that meeting.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s session is expected to include discussion of the proposal, though no additional public testimony will be taken.\u00a0The LPC\u00a0may receive written comments<\/a>\u00a0in advance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Merchant’s House, built in 1832 and designated a New York City landmark in 1965, has long raised concerns about construction on the neighboring property. The museum’s exterior and interior are both landmarked, including its original ornamental plasterwork.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Village Preservation, which opposes the proposal, said the museum’s experts believe construction next door could cause “extensive and irreversible damage” to the building despite safeguards proposed for the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the past 15-plus years, Kalodop II Park Corp. has been trying to build a new development on the site of a one-level garage that stores food carts.<\/p>\n

The developers need approval of a zoning text amendment and special permits to proceed with the project. In February, Community Board 2’s Landmarks Committee disapproved the plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Preservationists and museum officials have argued that excavation, vibrations and other construction activity could threaten the historic structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fate of a proposed new building next to the Merchant’s House Museum is back before the Landmarks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-359505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}