Maspeth Town Hall — the historic civic building at 53-37 72nd Street in Queens — is finally getting its HVAC system rebuilt. DCAS owns and runs the building; NYC DDC's Division of Public Buildings is the agency actually building the job, and its drawing set — Capital Project PWQMAHVAC, DOB Job #Q01349527-I1 — shows a scope bigger than swapping out a rooftop unit.

The 35-sheet set, issued for bid March 27 and revised as recently as June 12, calls for selective demolition on three separate levels — the cellar, the first floor, and the attic — plus a full reflected ceiling plan removal on the first floor. Before any new equipment goes in, crews are gutting mechanical space from the basement to the roofline.

“You can't drop new ductwork and risers into a structure framed for radiators and gravity heat.”

That's the tax an old civic building pays on a mechanical upgrade. You can't drop new ductwork and risers into a structure framed for radiators and gravity heat. Not without opening up the floors and roof to route them.

The board has this one due August 27 — RFI-000076, about ten days out. No engineer's estimate came through in the bid package, so none is printed here, and the board hasn't recorded a plan-holder count yet either — a gap in what's logged, not a read on interest. A three-floor demo scope on a historic building is exactly where the addenda end up mattering more than the base drawings.