from view, they are invisible from the street based on the historic penthouse hides all of that.ay. we weren't sure you were dovenlt i -- done. i have a question only because i know this is invisible from the street but a little bit visible on top offal ---al mow square. would it raise the height of everything else up to the top of the elevator penthouse to make it all even, neat and clean. just from sponsor side if you would be willing do that? >> from our side we would be willing to do that. we were considering what was previously approved. that is based on your previous approval but we consider raising the top of the penthouse. >> commissioners, just a point of clarification to ensure the rsz meets the department's planning code. you want to verify if this is a tenant space which is the actual space. we don't want to be in conflict with the requirement. >> mr. frye, if i'm reading this correctly, the top of the elevator pan is 40 feet? >> correct. i would defer to clarify. for a point of clarification you may want to indicate in your approval that it's within the permitted obs

the existing penthouse they're calling it a stair on this permit it's a enclosed penthouse or stair this new roof technical at the front it looks similar the skylight in similar position and a set back area here. so it looks pretty close from what i see think the plans if someone want to dispute that the attorneys brief there was this plan we got this plan today i'll pass it over to chief inspector r&r done >> you may not. >> one thing excuse me. he's testifying. >> i thought about the code issue the 42 inch par fit wail that was mentioned the requirement on that in the code was thirty inches a lot of people build them as the 42 but the architect choose to build behind the guardrail bringing it up to 42 inches it's code compliant i want to refer to that there's no requirement for a 42 inch solid wall but the thirty inches of that would have needed to be fire protective so they've built it at 42 inches. >> good evening, commissioners chief speaker patrick r&r done and ma'am, can you please sit down it's distracting no our time is up. >> good evening chief building inspector patrick i

you will see in the design, the elevator penthouse is not visible from the public right-of-way neithere facade of the building. the facade is to remove all the existing cladding and the existing windows and replace them with metal and glass screen system. this is not from the public right-of-way. it's a fairly similar treatment to the rear facades of the new proposed buildings for diner street which were approved buy a year or two ago and that is an appropriate treatment for the building. it's a non-contributor to the district. we have the conditions that the existing conditional for the approval for the restoration are maintained. so i hope that is not confusing. if you have any questions, please let me know. i'm going to pass it to the architect to walk through the designs with you. emily goesen, project applicant. i'm going to show you through the rear facade and had shelley discovered a good amount of physical evidence which we are really excited about to have a lot of confidence to taking the front facade back to something we can safely assume that is original. the rear facade we

i believe they can bring the penthouse height and stay within the permitted obstructions over the height limit. however if it turned out they could not increase the massing over that height, then we could alternatively raise the pit which is the higher exception over the height limit and would stick with what's allowed. >> thank you. commissioners, any questions? >> yeah. >> commissioner johnck? >> in raising it, what are we talking about in terms of feet? >> making it even with the top of the proposed. >> okay. >> it's raising it maybe about 18 inches to two 2 feet. a little bit more. i'm sorry, you are right. only a couple feet. >> yeah, okay all right. >> just to keep it clean and even because i do believe from the top. >> all right. >> commissioners any other questions at this time? no? we'll open up to the public. any member of the public wish to comment on this item? seeing none, we'll close public comment and back to commission. commissioner pearlman. >> i believe this lady. >> oh, okay. please c'mon down to the podium. >> i'm one of the neighbors louis and we live at 816 scott st

that is how much this penthouse in monaco will set you back.n we come back. ♪ >> good morning. welcome back. you're watching "the pulse." live from london. i am guy johnson. these are the top headlines. israel has shot down a syrian warplane in israeli airspace, this comes as the u.s. carries out airstrikes against islamic state militants in syria. the u.s. is working with bahrain, jordan, saudi arabia, uae you.d the turkey's president says airstrikes are not enough. erdogan spoke about the islamic state with charlie rose. >> airstrikes, if you only consider airstrikes, this means that you are not fully involved in the struggle. because airstrikes is only one dimension. there will be things that will need to be done from the air, on the ground, from intelligence perspective, from a humanitarian perspective. taken intoave to be consideration and we have to look at this as a whole. if we do not have this kind of a conference of approach, the job will be half done. the fulln watch interview on charlie rose tonight right here on bloomberg. you can

. >> speaking of your penthouse it is not a penthouse. >> it is nice.aven't been there but i have seen it. it is a very nice place. you live well. >> yes. you should live well. >> have you on work hard to maintain that lifestyle. >> honey, we are going through this life once. and i love working hard. i love coming home to something nice. i love -- living well. i live -- i -- like a lady. i love pretty china. i love a nice table. i love nice towels. i would rather work four more club dates and have -- live nice. >> it is working for you. >> yes. >> even at this age it is working for you. >> yes. >> sometimes i rethink that. i have a nice house. >> good. >> sometimes i'm thinking -- maybe i should just downsize and not work so hard. >> are you enjoying your house? when you go home do you say i did this? >> i do. >> i did this. it is my house. i love it. you are a man. and this is my car. then you work hard. enjoy it. tomorrow -- tracy morgan, a friend of mine. turn around. you don't know. you don't know. and enjoy it while -- while you are doing it. >> wh

then they started to tell me about the dancers the social life come to the penthouse club band the abiescolumn in the whole world opened before me and i thought i had to find out about this. that was beginning to look into the life. we had a very good time. >> host: is there a book about sisei? >> guest: not yet. but i have written the peace >> stemming from the earlier research. @o i teach asian american history the freshman cluster class from other departments and presently it chicha class on american history. >> host: with the asian american history class visited general one no one type? >> restart the introduction to hawaii with the integration of why they come to the u.s. because of the gold rush. there were chinese restaurants intemperances go they were popular at least since 1850. with the very rich history that brings a whole influx of people. >> host: "city girls" the nisei social world in los angeles, 1920-1950" professor valerie matsumoto is the author., >> host: professor tim groseclose with the term liberal media what does that mean to you? >> guest: in my book is a precise

>> penthouse triplex penthouse next year for $130 million, the most expensive listing ever in manhattan square feet. that's about seven times the city average per square foot. foreigners are targets the most possible buyers. the tax on this property would be an additional $5 million, a year, an top of the property taxes and maintenance. dying to hear what larry thinks of this. but hong kong, singapore, london have all imposed recent taxes on foreign buyers because we're seeing so many wealthy foreigners bid up prices in these markets that locals get mad, they pressure the governments and they say, you've got to do something. >> larry? >> they already pay taxes, as you mentioned. and they pay transaction taxes coming in. >> 1%. >> that's correct. i want to say this, our sanda nista doesn't like that. he's going to use the estimated in revenues to spend on his pet projects. do you think new york -- >> like affordable housing? >> whatever. do you think new york isn't taxed enough? do we think that? seriously. >> it's really a question about -- playing devil's advocate here. that's fine. so

russet them we'll reduce our children's bedrooms this is back to our neighbors we didn't prototypes a penthouse roof this exterior stairs are open to the sky. and we didn't provide the high ceilings the ceiling heights are standard. now this is the proposed wall of the perpendicular part of the kraflt to the volume it is significantly smaller than what the planning code allows we didn't ways and means come in with a large design we started out with our best foot forward with a sensitive plan that receptors the concerns of the neighbors we've met with them privately and intooifr giving them update and meeting with them we're frustrated our compromises have not satisfied the dr requester they've not suggested my revisions that are acceptable to us or the planning staff the member of the delores community supports this application. in conclusion, this is a modest project in scope that removes the number one combloint structure reverses the traditional victorian facade and code compiling the vertical edition is almost incidentally visible from the street level it impacts the perpendicular window co

with the roof-deck because it is part of the design and it's very well landscaped it doesn't have a penthouse and really the quality use of open space because their rear yard is so many levels below and the balcony would be the only usable space so the roof-deck as proposed is really quite fine so if the commission and want to take dr and prepared to take action on the variance to have a 15 rear yard with no obstructions to the rear yard level. >> thank you commissioner antonini. >> i'm prepared to make a motion to take dr and reduce the building in keeping are the suggestion of commissioner moore to shave the back off she's discriminated i won't roach the roof-deck. >> commissioner antonini i believe that the roof-deck holds itself quite well interest the northern property with a deep notch in respect of the joining properties so i'm leaving it there and would second the motion. >> okay. thank you. >> i'm sorry can you reiterate that. >> i would leave the roof-deck. >> okay. thank you thank you. >> it holds back from the jane property. >> okay. >> commissioners, we have a motion and a second

mitigated negative declaration for: 11 vertical addition of a third story, roof deck, and circulation penthouse to the existing two-story-over-basement, 19,374 square-foot vacant building - a net increase of 4,445 square feet, raising the building's height from 35 feet to 51 feet; 22 replacement of the embarcadero faÇade; and 33 rehabilitation of the building for office and assembly use, to house functions for the commonwealth club of california. sf 121234 commissioners before you hear from staff, i wanted to introduce you to a staff member. he's new in the planning division department. he's been here since december of last year. he comes from chicago where he was a rail corridor project development and environmental review planner and work with the los angeles county metro transportation authority and chicago transparent authority. he worked on several properties on the corridor and los angeles and modern lines in chicago in his tenure there. we welcome him to the planning commission. >>> good afternoon. the proposed project includes vertical addition of a story to a 2 two 2 story vacant build

with the roof-deck because it is part of the design and it's very well landscaped it doesn't have a penthouse and really the quality use of open space because their rear yard is so many levels below and the balcony would be

with the roof-deck because it is part of the design and it's very well landscaped it doesn't have a penthouse and

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. >> making no apologies on her upper east side penthouse, worth more than $30 million. >> i enjoy myature comforts, i know i have to work for it. >> but joan didn't always live a life of financial freedom. >> i don't know anything about business, i am worst in the world with it. and i don't care. >> when her husband committed suicide she was left with her the 15-year-old daughter to pick up the pieces of a broken career and poor business decisions. >> now what are we going to do? i have then show, made bad business investments. everything was stopped. stopped. and here i am. >>noeventually, she turned her life around in a most triumphat her brains and beauty. >> i was never the pretty one, the

the air down and sound that usually goes up in the air on a clear night and you can see in the penthouses of san francisco an inversion layer causes you to hear it on the ground so that's kind of what happened. they did spend a great deal of money working all through the night to reconfigure the speakers, turn speakers off, lower some of the frequencies and it worked. i have a little video of the db meerlt we put up and they're showing all of the readings during the show, but if we want to have -- we're a big city and if we want to have these kinds of shows and we deserve to have these kinds of shows here. it's great for us economically. it's great for the city's image. it's just great. then we have to talk about it ahead of time the kind of sound they have, check the weather, check this, but not like punish them in a way that they would no longer bring a show here, you know, pretty much is in my opinion. >> and i would like to agree with that because one of the things i believe is that we have these -- we're a major city and what happens everyone goes outside of the city to have these la

because, adding 6, 9-foot pieces in addition to typical roof appendages to be for the events or a penthouse stairwells or whatever. and would be or could potentially be a very unsightly, view for people who live in that community. and so, i just wanted to make sure that we could be optimizing the aesthetics of this installation. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> hello, my name is marsha hinbecker ander the owners of the ruso, building which is kitty corner to the place of the antennas and it is up the hill. and my front windows of all of the apartments can see the sight line and we think that it is ugly and unsightly to have nine towers and we would like that on our own roof. and they had grown some flowers and put a wood screen, but the association, you know, thought that the roof line should be clean in respect to the other neighbor and their views, and we removed that wood screen. and we don't think that put should put things on top and my mother, had been living there since 1945. and out to the family and we visit there often and we were trying to, one apartment study that sh

the air down and sound that usually goes up in the air on a clear night and you can see in the penthouses of san francisco an inversion layer causes you to hear it on the ground so that's kind of what happened. they did spend a great deal of money working all through the night to reconfigure the speakers, turn speakers off, lower some of the frequencies and it worked. i have a little video of the db meerlt we put up and they're showing all of the readings during the show, but if we want

it did not go out to the new york times and washington post but scientific american and penthouse. i did not know that. tell us your reaction when you learned about the manifesto. was it a major break can you lead to complications? >> have the difficulty to catch any criminal that is not communicating makes it very difficult. you have opportunity to develop. the unabomber had been quiet for seven years up until he started bombing again in 1993. in 1994 it continued and he started writing letters. that is good. he wrote a letter to the new york times, an editor at the new york times to begin with and leading up to -- suddenly he comes forward gushing 35,000 word manifesto and this is the right direction but he also attached to that the demand, the threat to the newspapers and preceded it, follow that very closely with i am going to blow up, he was claiming to have a terrorist group behind him which we didn't believe that all, we are going to blow up an airliner out of lax if you don't publish the manifesto. that sweet the pot and a few days later he had another letter that said i wa

. >> last hour we told but a new building in new york city selling parking spots, the the penthouse will cost you 25 million-dollar. >> um-hmm. >> with that comes your own little parking spot, they are charging a million-dollar for that spot. >> this is happening at a new residential development in soho. developers are banking on high rollers to spend a million-dollar on these spots since parking spots are so, difficult to find in the city. in fact, the average cost for a sparking spot in manhattan is $140,000. >> per year. >> so this story, what do you spend way too much on. >> oh, man that is a good question. >> great question. >> sue. >> you know, i think i'm quite cheap, and i shop at marshals and i wait for the sales and coupons but i have got to say i have a hard time staying out of the craft stores like michaels. i have enough knitting yarn i don't think i have enough years to knik with all of the yarn in my staff. >> how much is yarn. >> i wait until it is on sale but i just get it, because yarn is like, you know, it can be five, $10 but you buy enough for a blanket. >> well, you

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. >> the penthouse that it is pared with is going with 25 million.million-dollar, that is chump change. average cost for parking spot in manhattan is still steep, like you mentioned it is $140,000 mike. >> what did you say 140. >> it can be $140,000 a year spent on parking for people living in manhattan. >> when i came here i thought $300 a in was expensive. i can't get to new york. >> not yet. >> maybe you can the not afford this pricey parking spot but we want to know how much do you spend. use the hash tag, fox 29 spending problems. fox 29 spending problems. not on just parking. what do you blow the most money on in your life. is it clothing. shoes. >> parking spots. >> other parking spots. >> concert ticket, stuff like that. use that hash tag i have forgotten it, fox 29. >> spending problems. >> spending problems. >> got spending problemsy got 99 problems. >> spending is one. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, speaking of money, the power ball jackpot is 150 million-dollar drawing tomorrow night. you have your ticket now, alex. but think about that b

as the british were moving through his town, a few british stragglers decided to raid his penthouse and create mischief in the town. perhaps they wanted to desert from the british or there were only supplementing their rations with local poultry. dr. william beanes' a feisty man in his 70's it took a few of them prisoner. one of them managed to escape and reported this to the british high command. only days as the british advance to upper marlboro, dr. beanes pretended he was pro-british, saying he was educated in great britain, which he may have been, but certainly giving the illusion that his sentiments tended to lean more with the british and not with the americans in spite of where he was living. however, this seemed to indicate that dr. beanes was putting up a front. they saw him as breaking his word as a gentleman. and the british went and took him down to the fleet. this news spread like wildfire. dr. william beanes was a leading citizen. he was also a civilian. and while it was considered normal for both sides to apprehend sailors and soldiers as prisoners, taking civilians as a

so i walk over to the apartment, this guy's got, like, a penthouse suite, really nice. >> jimmy: no,probably need to take a shower. you are a little messed up." [ laughter ] he was right. he was right. i lived in a car. ♪ hey, i'm just painting a a picture here. >> jimmy: yeah. yeah, yeah. >> so i took the shower. i got cleaned up. i did my hair, as you can see, like, you know, picked it out. and then he was like, "that shirt's not gonna do. here's one of mine." gave me this shirt that's in the picture. it's a white shirt. >> jimmy: his shirt? >> it's a nice shirt. i couldn't afford that shirt. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. [ laughter ] >> i had that shirt. and then, uh, he takes the pictures, he tells me what to do, tilt my head, put my arm like this. takes the film out of the camera, sticks it in that thing. hands me three rolls of camera film, which at the time, would have cost me like $400, $500. you know, like head shots are not inexpensive. he was like, "good luck, kid." and i walked out of there and then i decided that this was the best one. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's a great

before we let dolly go we hear you have a manhattan penthouse that is your listing as location for somethe many steamy scenes between mickey rork and kim basinger. two bedroom two bathroom pent house. that is a nice location owned by the 35-year-old son of carl icon. tell us about it. >> it is a fabulous space with super high ceilings, beautiful terraces. it is the bachelor pad from heaven. you can do it on your own here. it is just to die. >> it actually seems low. >> it does seem low. we are hoping to get a bidding war out of it. we decided to price it reasonably. >> the views are amazing. >> the location is central and amazing. the building is a gorgeous old building converted. it is to die. this home will sell quickly. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> well, it's been a volatile september. we have seen a lot of movement in the s&p sectors. dominic chu is looking at winners and losers for us. the month of september has had triple digit gains and losses. we will have all of that when we come back on "power lunch" after two minutes. at can read your h, a wide-screen multimedia