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The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission yesterday decided to calendar a hearing on a proposed Weehawken Street Historic District in Manhattan. No date has yet been set for the hearing.
Weekhawken Street is one of the shortest in the city and runs from Christopher to West 10th Street and is very close to West Street.
The text of the proposed district maintains that the district?s architecture ?illustrates the area?s long history as a place of dwelling, industry and commerce, much of it maritime-related, and it is a rare surviving example of this once typical development pattern on the Hudson River waterfront.
398 West Street, according to the commission's research report, is a 3 ?-story Federal-style rowhouse dated to 1831 that was built for Isaac Amerman, a flour merchant. 7 Weehawken Street is a 3-story brick-clad rowhouse and stable first, also dated to 1831, owned by Jacob R. Roome, a carpenter. 185 Christopher Street is a brick warehouse built in the 1830s for Stephen Allen, a former New York City Mayor.
The next period of development, the report continued, "was spurred by the closing of the Weehawken Market" and 394 and 395 West Street, both circa 1848, housed a variety of commercial users, "mostly liquors (saloon) businesses and restaurants."
In 1846, the Hudson River Railroad was built along West Street and 177 Christopher Street is a four-story neo-Grec style factory building erected in 1884 for H. C. & J. H. Calkin, marine coppersmiths and plumbers.
"At the turn of the century," the report continued, "as the Hudson River continued to expand as the primary artery for maritime commerce, and the Gansevoort and Chelsea Piers (1894-1910) were constructed, West Street north of Christopher Street became the business section of New York?s commercial waterfront. 391 West Street is a 5-story neo-Renassiance style tenement building designed in 1902 by Richard Rohl, and the three-story neo-Renaissance style Holland Hotel was commissioned by restaurateur Albert A. Adler in 1904 and designed by Charles Stegmayer. 9-11 Weehawken Street is a three-story neo-Romanesque style stable building with upper story resident that was built in 1909 and designed by George M. McCabe."
"The desirability of this area as a residential community after the 1920s is exemplified by the conversion of buildings to middle-class apartments, such as Nos. 3 and 5 Weehawken Street in 1928 and 304 West 10th Street in the 1960s," the report declared.
That desirability continues as an offering plan to convert the two buildings at 3 and 5 Weehawken Street to condominiums was submitted by Weehawken Street Associates of which Louis DeVito is a principal to the New York State Attorney General?s Office last month with a total offering price of $6,492,500 for 20 apartments. Eight apartments were then rent-stabilized and one was rent-controlled. The offering plan included a 15-percent discount for existing tenants. The five-story buildings have red-brick facades with white-brick one-story bases with tall arched windows and a fence.
The proposed district is very close to the Hudson River Park and convenient public transportation.
Weekhawken Street is one of the shortest in the city and runs from Christopher to West 10th Street and is very close to West Street.
The text of the proposed district maintains that the district?s architecture ?illustrates the area?s long history as a place of dwelling, industry and commerce, much of it maritime-related, and it is a rare surviving example of this once typical development pattern on the Hudson River waterfront.
398 West Street, according to the commission's research report, is a 3 ?-story Federal-style rowhouse dated to 1831 that was built for Isaac Amerman, a flour merchant. 7 Weehawken Street is a 3-story brick-clad rowhouse and stable first, also dated to 1831, owned by Jacob R. Roome, a carpenter. 185 Christopher Street is a brick warehouse built in the 1830s for Stephen Allen, a former New York City Mayor.
The next period of development, the report continued, "was spurred by the closing of the Weehawken Market" and 394 and 395 West Street, both circa 1848, housed a variety of commercial users, "mostly liquors (saloon) businesses and restaurants."
In 1846, the Hudson River Railroad was built along West Street and 177 Christopher Street is a four-story neo-Grec style factory building erected in 1884 for H. C. & J. H. Calkin, marine coppersmiths and plumbers.
"At the turn of the century," the report continued, "as the Hudson River continued to expand as the primary artery for maritime commerce, and the Gansevoort and Chelsea Piers (1894-1910) were constructed, West Street north of Christopher Street became the business section of New York?s commercial waterfront. 391 West Street is a 5-story neo-Renassiance style tenement building designed in 1902 by Richard Rohl, and the three-story neo-Renaissance style Holland Hotel was commissioned by restaurateur Albert A. Adler in 1904 and designed by Charles Stegmayer. 9-11 Weehawken Street is a three-story neo-Romanesque style stable building with upper story resident that was built in 1909 and designed by George M. McCabe."
"The desirability of this area as a residential community after the 1920s is exemplified by the conversion of buildings to middle-class apartments, such as Nos. 3 and 5 Weehawken Street in 1928 and 304 West 10th Street in the 1960s," the report declared.
That desirability continues as an offering plan to convert the two buildings at 3 and 5 Weehawken Street to condominiums was submitted by Weehawken Street Associates of which Louis DeVito is a principal to the New York State Attorney General?s Office last month with a total offering price of $6,492,500 for 20 apartments. Eight apartments were then rent-stabilized and one was rent-controlled. The offering plan included a 15-percent discount for existing tenants. The five-story buildings have red-brick facades with white-brick one-story bases with tall arched windows and a fence.
The proposed district is very close to the Hudson River Park and convenient public transportation.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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