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Posted by Marc A. Rivlin on Sun Feb 6 20:05:03 2011, in response to Re: 76st what happened?, posted by dtrain1 on Fri Feb 4 20:19:54 2011. The only certificate of occupancy for PS 214 on the Department of Buildings BIS (Buildings Information System) website is from October 1, 1925 and just lists "PS 214" as the purpose. It has no floor by floor description of the building, so there is no way to tell if there is or was a cellar that might have extended out from the building line--some buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries had coal shoots that extended to the curb--in the way of a six-track subway. I cannot tell if there are any construction permits from the 30s or 40s that might have been modification of the building. There are a slew of "Actions" listed on BIS with dates beginning in 1901. Several are of "Unknown" type, not that the type is helpful without seeing the underlying documents. The only "Action" with a scanned document is the C of O, and it even has an incorrect "File Date" of 1910. Recent work permits, listed separately from "Actions" under "Jobs/Filings," only go back to the early 90s.I also checked the Department of Finance's tax map, which show no REUC, a Real Estate Utility Corporation indicating an easement, on the lot. The lots above A5/A6 and K5/K6 all have REUCs listed. None of the lots along Pitkin beyond Eldert Lane have REUCs. The school has no records in ACRIS, the Department of Finance's online listing of documents (deeds, mortgages, easements, liens, etc) recorded at the City Register, but they only put records from 1966 forward online. The rest are just on microfilm. Older easements are sometimes attached to newer documents--there are a slew of them around the West Fourth Street station--but, because of the per-page cost of recording, form deeds usually state that they are subject to all prior easements, liens, etc without including details. A thorough search would require checking all of the lots along Pitkin at the City Register's microfilm/fiche recording, at the Department of Buildings' hard files of filings, permits, etc, and the old Department of Housing and Buildings files at the Municipal Archives. These are located in office in Brooklyn, Queens, and at the Surrogates Court Building in Manhattan. If we had a controversy about a location in Manhattan, it would at least reduce the leg work. It is hard to reach a conclusion based on my quick research. It does seem likely that either a) there never were any easements beyond Eldert because they were unnecessary (the line would be below the street only) or the Board of Transportation never reached that stage, or b) the easements were terminated because the line was never built or what was built was removed. |
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