LPC to designate first landmarks of year

The city Landmarks Preservation Commission is scheduled to designate the first landmarks of the year tomorrow. The five buildings to be designated are: the Elsworth House at 90 Bayview Avenue in Staten Island, built between 1880 and 1887 in the Second Empire architectural style; the Hubbard House at 2138 Mcdonald Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn, a Dutch farmhouse built in the 1830s; an Art Deco skyscraper at 275 Madison Avenue in Manhattan built in 1931; the 125th Street Branch of the New York Public Library, at 224 East 125th Street, built around 1920 and designed in the Renaissance Revival style; and the George Bruce Branch of the New York Public Library, at 518-520 West 125th Street, a Georgian Revival-style building built around 1940. TRD