Landmarks Preservation Commission approves new-house design for Clinton Hill lot
The owner of an empty lot in the Clinton Hill Historic District wants to build a house covered in pale-hued simulated travertine with an arched window soaring two stories above brushed-metal garage doors.
The lot at 311 Vanderbilt Ave. where the house is planned sits next to a row of sober-looking Neo-Grec brownstones built in 1877. There are old-fashioned carriage houses on the other end of the block.