From Community Board 1…. My comments are underlined.

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1/5 Special Landmarks Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Diker Pavilion at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green
The second of two, to consider a resolution regarding Landmarks Preservation Commission application by Howard Hughes Corporation for a Certificate of Appropriateness for:
1. Tin Building: relocation and one-story addition
2. Pier 17 western edge/removal of headhouse
3. Pier 17 canopy and mechanical screen
4. Pedestrian canopy
5. Demolition of the Link Building
6. Construction of pavilions and lighting under FDR Drive
7. East River Esplanade
8. New building on Pier 16
9. Schermerhorn Row and new building on John Street
10. Wayfinding dynamic signs

1/6 Battery Park City Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Battery Park City Library 175 North End Avenue
1) Brookfield Place tenants and service providers – Discussion with Charlie Colletti, World Financial Center Shoe Repair Shop Little guy getting squeezed out?
2) Overview of the 2015 capital plan by Gwen Dawson, Senior Vice President of Asset Management and Robin Forst, Vice President of External Relations, Battery Park City Authority
3) Traffic enforcement around West Street – Discussion with Sgt. George Giga, New York Police Department WTC World Trade Center Command
4) 250 Vesey Street, ground level #107b and second floor #202, application for restaurant liquor license for L’Atelier NYC LLC – Resolution That’d be the 11,000-square-foot L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon. Details here.
5) Committee Accomplishments of 2014 for CB1 Annual Report
6) The following notices have been received for renewal, upgrade, or transfer of wine and beer or liquor licenses or sidewalk cafe permits:
—Tartinery Liberty, 225 Liberty Street, store 245A, upgrade from a restaurant wine 
license to a full liquor license for Tartinery Liberty
—102 North End Avenue, application for alteration of liquor license to add service bar 
for Signature 102 North End Ave LLC d/b/a North End Grill
—255 Vesey Street, renewal of unenclosed sidewalk cafe for Blue Smoke 102 North 
End Ave LLC

1/7 Financial District Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board Office
, 49-51 Chambers Street, Room 709
1) 
Broadway Reconstruction Project – Update by Eirik Rundhovde, Resident Engineer and Liz Baptiste, Community Construction Liaison, Broadway Phase 1 Let this please be progressing!
2) 23 Wall Street, proposed new leasehold and use for property – Presentation by Robert W. Romano, Esq The New York Post can calm down; it looks like 23 Wall will no longer be empty….
3) 140 West Street Condominium – Update
4) 
20 John Street, application for a wine and beer license for Dee Jing, Inc. – Resolution
5) Street activity permit for Bowling Green Association on 10/12/2015 from 12pm-10pm, Whitehall St. between Stone St. and Water St., Broadway between Morris St and Stone St., and Broadway between Liberty St and Morris St. – Resolution
6) 
Street activity permit for Veteran’s Day Festival – IND Plaza Tenants Association co-sponsored event on 11/11/2015 12pm-7pm, Broadway between Liberty St. and Battery Place – Resolution
7) 
Street activity permit for Sons of Italy Freedom Block Party on 10/04/2015 from 12pm- 7pm, Liberty St. between Broadway and Trinity Place – Resolution
8) Street activity permit for First Police Precinct Explorers Block Party on 08/09/2015 from 12pm-7pm, Liberty St. between Broadway and Trinity Place – Resolution
9) 
Street activity permit for 911 Memorial Family Day on 04/26/2015 from 9am-7pm, Greenwich St. between Cortlandt St. and Liberty St. – Resolution
10) Street activity permit for ZIUA USA – Romanian Day Festival on 05/10/2015 from 12pm-7pm, Broadway between Liberty St. and Battery Place and Whitehall St. between Stone St. and Water St. – Resolution
11) 
Street activity permit for Coenties Slip Thursday Greenmarket on 07/02/20015 to 11/19/2015 from 8am-7pm, Coenties Slip between Water St. and Pearl St. – Resolution
12) Street activity permit for Chabad of Wall Street Community Fair on 05/25/2015 from 12- 7pm, Liberty St. between Broadway and Trinity Place – Resolution
13) 
Street activity permit for Seaport Community Coalition on 08/01/2015 from 12-7pm, Water St. between Fulton St. and Broad St. – Resolution
14) 
Committee Accomplishments of 2014 for CB1 Annual Report
15) 
The following notices have been received for renewal, upgrade, or transfer of wine and beer or liquor licenses or sidewalk cafe permits:
—77 Water Street, Suite 701, renewal application for license for Megapolis USA, LLC
—2 Rector St., renewal application for a wine and beer license for Masterpiece Pizza Inc.
—60 Pearl St., renewal application for a wine and beer license for Baluchis Masala

1/8 Landmarks Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board Office, 
49-51 Chambers Street, Room 709
1) 
79 Laight Street, application for replacement of entrance door and transom – Resolution That’s the United States Sugar Building.
2) 152 Franklin Street, application for handicapped access ramp – Resolution
3) 
140 Broadway, application for entry infill and re-glazing – Resolution
4) 
Committee Accomplishments of 2014 for CB1 Annual Report

1/12 Planning Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board Office, 
49-51 Chambers Street, Room 709
1) 
World Trade Center Performing Arts Center – Update by Maggie Boepple, President & Lucy Sexton, Associate Artistic Director
2) MTA fan plants and infrastructure storm hardening – Update by Zachary Campbell, Assistant Director, Government & Community Relations
3) City-wide Zoning Text Amendment regarding stairwells in non-residential buildings – Resolution
4) 
Acquisition of office space for Department of City Planning at 120 Broadway – Resolution
5) City-wide allocation of Community Development Block Grant Funds – Resolution 
http://www.nyc.gov/html/cdbg/html/proposed/action_plan_amendments.shtml
6) 
Committee Accomplishments of 2014 for CB1 Annual Report

1/13 Youth & Education Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board Office
, 49-51 Chambers Street, Room 709
1) Committee Accomplishments of 2014 for CB1 Annual Report

1/14 Tribeca Committee– 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board Office, 
49-51 Chambers Street, Room 709
1) Worth Street Reconstruction Project – Preliminary presentation Worth Street is getting the overhaul that Chambers is just about done with.
2) 
Pier 26 Update by Madelyn Wils, President and CEO, Hudson River Park Trust – Resolution
 Maybe we’ll learn about the restaurant! Or maybe we’ll just learn what we already know about the estuarium.
3) Proposed changes to parking regulations in Tribeca – Presentation by Jennifer Leung, Project Manager, NYC Department of Transportation and possible resolution
4) Bastille Day 2015 Street Activity Permit application for West Broadway between White Street and Walker Street, Tuesday July 14, 2015, 12:00 am to 8:00 pm – Resolution Cercle Rouge‘s annual party.
5) Tribeca Community School Block Party street activity permit application for Ericsson Place between Varick and Hudson Streets, Saturday, May 16, 2015 – Resolution
6) NYC Police Museum Fair, Friday June 19, 2015 from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm, North Moore Street between West and Greenwich Streets – Resolution On a Friday afternoon in summer, they want to close off one of the main routes to West Street? No disrespect to the Police Museum, but this is not a great idea.
7) Committee Accomplishments of 2014 for CB1 Annual Report
8) The following notices have been received for renewal, upgrade, or transfer of wine and beer or liquor licenses and sidewalk cafes:
—110 Chambers Street, application for corporate change for Liberty Restaurant LLC 
d/b/a Patriot Saloon
—323 Greenwich Street, application for renewal of sidewalk café license for 4 tables 
and 10 chairs Gigino.
—460 Greenwich Street, application for renewal of sidewalk cafe license for Tecton 
Café Inc. Estancia 460. CB1 really should list the dba name, too.
—3 Lispenard Street, application for renewal of restaurant liquor license for One Japan 
Inc. d/b/a Tataki
—85 West Broadway, application for renewal of restaurant liquor license for 85 West 
Broadway Owner LLC and Tribeca Kitchen LLC, d/b/a Smyth Hotel

1/15 Quality of Life Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board Office, 49-51 Chambers Street, Room 709
1)  NYC DOT Construction Update
2)  Committee Accomplishments of 2014 for CB1 Annual Report

1/20 Seaport/Civic Center Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board Office, 
49-51 Chambers Street, Room 709
1) South Street Initiative – Presentation by Gina Pollara & Victor Papa
2) Committee Accomplishments of 2014 for CB1 Annual Report

1/26 CB 1 Monthly Meeting – 6:00 PM
Location: PS 89, 201 Warren Street, 2nd Floor Auditorium

All documents relating to the above agenda items are on file at the Community Board 1 office and are available for viewing by the public upon written request to man01@cb.nyc.gov. At all meetings, additional items may be raised as “New Business” Please notify CB1 two days in advance, if wheelchair access is required.

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