INTRODUCTION
Over the next several years the Yuko Nii Foundation will try to raise funds for capital improvements. The major issues are the cast iron fence, the side door. We also need an elevator.
Over the years, many details have been lost to the exterior ornamentation. We have an agenda to slowly replace the losses over future decades.
Terrance Lindall, President Yuko Nii Foundation
Architectural Rendering
CAST IRON
The Yuko Nii Foundation has a pair of antique mid 19th Century cast iron French Second Empire fence doors that it wants to use for the side entrance.
Details
Meanwhile , we need to restore the cast iron fence. The side door had the cast iron balustrade when the building was purchased in 1996, but construction vehicles backing up knocked them down over the years. The parts are now in storage. The lamp posts were missing when the building was purchased.
Most of the side balustrade in intact, but the front of the building has parts missing (in storage in the basement).
A CURIOUS PROBLEM
According to a survey the fence is a structure on CITY PROPERTY. See survey on next page.
The NYC landmark Commission gave us a violation for failing to maintain the fence and asked us to repair it. They did not fine us.
The question is whether we can do work on city property. I assume that if the NYC Landmark Commission gives us a permit to do work that would be doable.
On the next page you can see the survey. The heavy black line around the building indicated the limits of the property owned by the Yuko Nii Foundation. Remarkably the fence and the front and side stoops are on city property.
Over the next year I will contact the mayors office and the borough president to see that the proper procedures are in handling this issue. It may be possible to put in for a capital grant for this.
