171 WEST 12TH ST Greenwich Village Historic District Manhattan
Matthew Amses, Board President: "Thank you for the excellent work on our project."
As one of the first co-op buildings built in NYC, this 1920s Italian Palazzo style building’s exterior had endured many years of deferred maintenance, resulting in water intrusion and potentially unsafe conditions. Our office was hired to perform a comprehensive inspection and capital budget report, resulting in a phased approach to restoring the exterior envelope that included roofing replacement, masonry repairs and window replacement.
The most pressing concerns were to replace leaking skylights at the bulkhead, cracked and loosened terracotta barrel-style copings overhanging the front parapet, and spalling cement stucco at the side yard walls. As is not uncommon in NYC, the inner face of the parapets and the bulkhead walls were found fully covered in layers of cracked, peeling asbestos tar coatings that had to be removed by a certified abatement contractor. For rear parapets that were found structurally weak beyond repair, we rebuilt and reinforced the new parapets with dowels and tieback plates, while adding an internal waterproofing membrane. The bulkheads and chimneys were made watertight with durable, iconic weathered copper-color standing-seam cladding. All material replacement and masonry repointing was carefully detailed/specified/selected so that the bricks, mortar and tooling satisfied all NYC-Landmarks Preservation requirements.
Matthew Amses, Board President: "Thank you for the excellent work on our project."
As one of the first co-op buildings built in NYC, this 1920s Italian Palazzo style building’s exterior had endured many years of deferred maintenance, resulting in water intrusion and potentially unsafe conditions. Our office was hired to perform a comprehensive inspection and capital budget report, resulting in a phased approach to restoring the exterior envelope that included roofing replacement, masonry repairs and window replacement.
The most pressing concerns were to replace leaking skylights at the bulkhead, cracked and loosened terracotta barrel-style copings overhanging the front parapet, and spalling cement stucco at the side yard walls. As is not uncommon in NYC, the inner face of the parapets and the bulkhead walls were found fully covered in layers of cracked, peeling asbestos tar coatings that had to be removed by a certified abatement contractor. For rear parapets that were found structurally weak beyond repair, we rebuilt and reinforced the new parapets with dowels and tieback plates, while adding an internal waterproofing membrane. The bulkheads and chimneys were made watertight with durable, iconic weathered copper-color standing-seam cladding. All material replacement and masonry repointing was carefully detailed/specified/selected so that the bricks, mortar and tooling satisfied all NYC-Landmarks Preservation requirements.