Landmark status granted to two SI buildings

The Landmarks Preservation Commission granted landmark status today to two buildings in Staten Island: the Staten Island Armory and the neo-Gothic Christ Church and its rectory and parish house, the New York Times reported. The Staten Island Armory on Manor Road in Castleton Corners is formally known as the Headquarters Troop, 51st Cavalry Brigade Armory, and resembles a medieval fortress guarded by tanks, featuring patterned brick work. The Christ Church complex, at 72-76 Franklin Avenue in New Brighton, in the northeast corner of the island, consists of the 1904 church, a two-story parish house and an 1879 rectory, joined by cloisters and covered walkways and arranged around a courtyard. The commission also agreed to formally consider a plan to enlarge the Park Slope Historic District in Brooklyn. The proposed extension comprises 582 buildings, most of them bounded by Seventh and Eighth avenues and 7th and 15th streets. [NYT]