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R’wood civic talks landmark renovations
BY ANDREINA RODRIGUEZ
EDITORIAL@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
With many landmarked homes
in the Ridgewood area,
the Ridgewood Property
Owners and Civic Association
(RPOCA) is seeking to educate
landlords about how they can benefi t
from appropriately renovating their
brownstones and apartment houses.
The Ridgewood Property Owners
and Civic Association (RPOCA)
held an informational seminar on
March 7 at the Ridgewood
Presbyterian Church.
Elaine and Joe Haufe, homeowners
and longtime members of the RPOCA,
presented details on applying for
and receiving $10,000 in New York
State tax credits as homeowners
living in a Historic District.
Ridgewood includes four landmark
districts designated by the New
York City Landmarks Preservation
Commission: Stockholm Street
Historic District and the Ridgewood
North, Central and South Historic
Districts. These districts consist of
cultural, historical and architectural
significance in which any alterations
made by homeowners of these
buildings are protected under
guidelines of the Landmarks Law
that must be approved beforehand.
The New York State Historic
Homeowner Tax Credit Program,
provided through the New York
State Office of Parks, Recreation
and Historic Preservation, offers 20
percent of qualified expenditures for
up to $50,000 in credits. The program
is an opportunity for to aid those in
the Historic District community to
initiate in any repairment projects
while preserving the historic
character of the building. Anybody
who owns a historic commercial
building is able to participate.
Following the district guidelines
are crucial, as RPOCA Counsel Paul
Kerzner discussed the issues with
not following them directly and
carefully. The LPC will impose a
fine unless the issue is corrected
once addressed.
The door replacement process took
the Haufes four months in which
they met with LPC officials in order
to prove that the door they matched
with was the same throughout
the neighborhood and for them to
approve it.
As the tax credit program
includes a three-part application,
they also discussed the third part
of the process, which requires
homeowners to submit photos,
drawings and layouts of renovations
in order to provide a perspective
in order to be approved by the
Preservation office.
“It took me roughly twelve hours
taking all the pictures, filling out
the application, and doing all the
drawings,” Joe added. “You have to
walk on the diagram…what angle
you were taking the picture from,
mark the pictures, print out the
pictures, and also create a CD with
the pictures on it.”
More information about the tax
credit program can be found on New
York State Office of Parks, Recreation
and Historic Preservation website,
www.nysparks.com/shpo.
Executive members of the Ridgewood Property Owners and Civic
Association pose for a picture during the organization’s March 7 meeting
at the Ridgewood Presbyterian Church. Photo by Andreina Rodriguez
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