heat heat [Music] [Music] this meeting is being held in accordance with the provisions of the Open Public Meetings Act of the State of New Jersey notice of time and place of this meeting
was published in the annual meeting calendar and was posted on the bulletin board by the city clerk on March 19th 2025 the 2025 meeting calendar was published in legal advertisements in the Jersey Journal and the Star Ledger in December
2024 additional notice of this meeting was faxed to the Bergen Record the Trenton Times and the Star Ledger on March 19th 2025 uh let's see i think first thing on our agenda is
usually the pledge of allegiance so uh Commissioner Faley would you please let us in the pledge lead us in the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to
the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all good evening everyone if anyone has not had an opportunity to read the minutes uh from the last
meeting please turn to that now and do that now and we will give you an opportunity oh I'm sorry Commissioner Phy i'm sorry i'm a little uh out of I'm out of order today because things are happening that
I didn't expect today would you do the roll call please okay commissioner Driscoll is absent commissioner Glover is absent commissioner Hullc present commissioner McGee present commissioner Beldo is
absent alternate Commissioner Bullion present alternate Commissioner Noak absent secretary Ryan here and our consulate present chairman we have uh Mr chairman
Whitten the Wiki we have a quorum thank you so much Commissioner Faley as I said before let's take a look at the minutes and see if anyone has anything they want to change or add i do have a couple of things I want to ask Dr ryan about but
I'll wait until the rest of you have a chance to go through it okay keep reading and I'll just I'll give Dr ryan the ones that I found dr ryan on page two paragraph two could you put Benmore Terrorists and Roosevelt
terrorists or Bmore Roosevelt and Wesley Court roosevelt yeah i mean I I don't know if maybe I didn't say it at and it's not on the tape but uh the you know what I was trying to imply is Benmore and Roosevelt Terrace are from the Bennett estate and
Wesley Court is the Fuller Estate um Commissioner McCie did you want to say something no okay okay i am now of course looking for where did Lincoln Parkway come from because I'm not sure and I I'm wondering if that's yet another estate that was up
there or because that's just before these other three so that's on page two on page three on the back cover um it should be it's not Curtis Longer it's Arthur Curtis Longear that's in the
one two three fourth paragraph arthur Curtis Longear was the architect um and of course that's the same architect as the bank building on 30 33rd in Broadway that just came down yes okay um and if you wanted it's up to you
because the one time bank building served for many years as the city hall annex for tax records i don't know if you want to include that it served more than just that yeah it's the mayor's office some of the time okay okay then just I I would just leave it that way then okay anyone else have anything they
want corrected or changed or modified or enhanced take another minute to look at it does anyone want to make a motion to accept i'll make a motion to accept the minutes okay second all in favor i I and
there we go okay dr ryan you traditionally lead us through the correspondence so whenever you're ready thank you Mr chairman i'll begin with the original packet and then go to the uh supplement I handed out
tonight there's one comment sheet at the tail end of um the original packet had to do with uh 9-11 heirs court which was really a no comment then going to the first part of the supplementary packet
there was another no comment or no objection on 562-568 Broadway same thing again on 211-27 Broadway now we have a couple of additional ones that need to be acted on
this evening um there is one uh an application by J&J Builders uh it's an east side multi-lot property 108 Avenue F 104-106 Avenue F 94-102 Avenue F and 101
East 21st Street and um if you flip the page over there's a statement of the applicant and there's a rendering uh what's essentially happening there is a uh proposal to build um an apartment
building uh on what's partly um an empty property uh and part of it was the Samson tank cleaning industrial property and the proposed building would be supported by um 120 parking spaces
for 110 units um so it it meets the uh general parking standard here of at least one space per unit so that's the first one that uh action is needed on and then a second one uh J&J Builders again 22 East 11th
Street um there's a uh vacant lot with a uh proposal to uh construct the the building that's shown there in the rendering um and the proposal is
um to construct um a home 3,400 square ft with two three-bedroom units that'll be supported by three on-site parking spaces so that would be two
um applications to comment on if there are any comments the um this correct one here with the uh this drawing this is going to be in the spot where the old bank used to be across from the post office property uh Avenue F avenue F Avenue in
vicinity and then East 21st Street oh the applicants yeah there's some there's some entities that are created to be redevelopers and it'll sometimes say you know XYZ Street LLC and first they'll do XYZ Street and
then they'll do ABC Street but keep the same company name so it can get a little confusing that's going to be a ninestory apartment house several lots on Avenue F and then East 21st Street
108 104-106 94-102 Avenue F and then 101 East 21st Street quite a big building then the other property in question is a lot easier 22 East 11th Street did you see an issue with this at all
Commissioner Kate the street it's a vacant lot as of right now it's a vacant lot and it's like across the street from the bagel place yes do do you think there's anything of
significance in that block in that area yeah yeah they were by the storm yeah they were gone yeah well that I wanted a question because I thought we that had come before us the bank and I don't think it
said they were going to knock it down we're we're mixing apples can we get to that separately sure sure i'd like to deal with Does anyone have an issue with with these two i have no objection neither do I okay
looks like they're our standard response and then moving on to 22 East 11 Street any objection to that uh that house that's proposed i have no objection and it's good to see
a two family house being built okay is everyone okay with that no either no comment or no objection okay no comment now do you want to go back and talk about the other building
i think it might be a research issue i I can tell you what apparently happened um the developer brought in uh heavy equipment um and uh in the process of
knocking down the adjoining building u uh allegedly it destabilized 734 Broadway the former bank building that they had promised to save and that's allegedly why it came down uh I
discovered this Monday evening and uh it started uh a number of phone calls with city officials um the city met with the developer and his attorney and the city has intervened to um save large numbers
of bricks from um the demolition site with a view towards incorporating them into the um building that is to be constructed on site okay something at least um I don't remember if there was any plaque or
anything inside the lobby of that building anyone else i I don't think there was any plaque okay um again that was Arthur Curtis Longear and the other building that sticks in my mind that he designed was
the mechanic's trust bank and I think also the former police and fire headquarters yes but that's that's been long gone so maybe the last one we have well other than houses there are other houses that long year designed and he was quite u prolific and was upstate from upstate
New York and did do a lot of work and was a well-known u architect in the New York metropolitan area anyway if there's nothing else So we will go to updates on historic properties um Commissioner Hollow do you
want to say anything about St andrews or 107 North Street well uh 17 North Street is still a work in in process but what about St andrews nothing to report well city council did designate St
andrews as a historic site right but does that mean that you are finished with St andrews completely no not completely okay what is left to do there was talk about um the city-owned
building um to landmark that so I've been researching that okay i think there was some confusion about that and at one point you said to let Commissioner Driscoll go ahead no no I didn't that was the confusion
i'll get back to her but I think she finished it weeks ago anyway anything else no okay that's on historic any other business does anyone have anything new
that they want to look at anything else um Mr chairman you had asked me to check about Forester Place i checked a few old maps and at least thus far I haven't found it that doesn't mean it existed or didn't exist just I personally haven't found it yet okay i'm
working with the library and they're gonna search the newspapers they have a way of looking through them so we might be able to come up for a first time it appeared as a street you know and that might help uh there seem to be lots of foresters in Hudson County uh and that they were involved as firemen policemen
all sorts of things but nothing that explains who the ones were downtown so that's that remains a mystery the other was um Lincoln Lincoln Parkway um I've I've noticed that that's adjacent to Wesley Court and to Benmore
and Roseville Terrace and therefore I'm looking for when did that start when did that come into play and whose state you know what was there before it i'm trying to keep the spreadsheet um I think Frank no Mr william yes hi um did you
see the spreadsheet have you you got I did okay and I've been updating it with adding things from the CRCG report you know because some of the things already had like an opinion from or they had some some status where CRCG said you should take a look at this this this
might be worth landmarking so I don't know what you wanted to do with this going forwards so if you want to put together something where you you know can come back and and tell us about also if you have an idea about how you would do what we had a problem with in the
past was the commissioner said issue was how would we create the standards for a district for example you have a set of about 20 houses originally down on 8th street on the east and west sides of of
the boulevard um and like they were all houses so would you say certain colors would you say you know not to not to modify the manered roofs not to modify the doors What is it we would put into anything if we were trying to keep a
district look like a district and there are different ones there you know you have the row houses in the 30s you have the um answered houses in 8th Street you have different things in different places u the more modern ones um that are from the 20s and
I say modern but I'm talking about the 1920s and the 1930s are really significantly beautiful homes Bemo terrace etc you know why have we never landmarked one of them especially there's a whole bunch of
them that are visible from the shore you know as you're coming over to Bon and they they make a splendid presence along Newark Bay maybe we should be looking at some of them anyway so I did that as a way of like opening the door
etc uh Dr ryan is there anything else any other area that we should be looking at because normally input from the planning board and I can't remember when we last heard from them it's been a while um in terms of estates I do have a
map from the 1870s that does show who owned which properties so um I could check at that and see if we can ascertain which estate would have been the predecessor of of Lincoln Parkway if you'd like
yeah I think I think Ben the Bened estate was north of it and north of that I think was the Fuller estate and then there was a block that was street named you know just the street adjacent to the park that didn't seem to have an estate
name Lincoln I don't know I don't know how far back that could go I'm not sure but of course any deed would have in it um you know the the chain of of ownership if we we went back if we needed to pick a particular property we could trace it back if we had to
okay anyone else have anything else that they want us to consider as new business if not I think that takes us to when is our next meeting commissioner our next meeting is on April 29th which is a
Tuesday at 7 p.m here in the council chambers thank you i can't hear you she's been here many times i don't think we have one guest in our audience i don't know if you do you
have anything you wish to say tonight or No okay and you've been here several times and we thank you again for your interest in monitoring what's going on and being a good uh watch for us thank you if there's nothing else do we hear a motion to adjurnn i'll make a motion to
adjurnn second all in favor i thank you all good night uh thank you home audience and see you next month