Thursday, October 8
On the calendar
August is the quiet month. Most galleries are on summer hours and many are closed Fridays, showrooms are running skeleton staff before the fall market, and the trade is largely out east. If you are in the city check out The Haas Brothers’ work concurrently on view at the Museum of Arts and Design April 8 through August 21, 2026 and at 82 Franklin Street.
A guide to New York City interior design and architecture
The buildings, the places, the events, and the people behind them.
The Commission reauthorized a rooftop addition on Washington Place. Three doors east, a show house is being fitted out that no public file will hold.
Dan Flugger
Founder, IDist
On 15 September 2026 the Landmarks Preservation Commission heard LPC-26-10317, a reauthorization of rooftop and rear yard additions at 73 Washington Place in the Greenwich Village Historic District, Manhattan. The work was first approved under Certificate of Appropriateness 17-7046, issued 24 September 2015, extended in 2021 and 2024, and expired in May 2026. SUK Design Studio Architecture presented. Community Board 2 recommended approval, the Victorian Society of New York filed written testimony, and nobody testified in the room. The motion carried ten to nothing. Two elements changed in nine years: the elevator bulkhead stands about a foot taller and the rear yard excavation is smaller.
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