Advocacy
POSITIONS & TESTIMONY
The Preservation Committee at FRIENDS reviews every Upper East Side Certificate of Appropriateness item before the Landmarks Preservation Commission, offering advisory testimony at each public hearing.
Hearings range from the review of small items such as window replacements in buildings located in one of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, to larger items such as wholly new facades or even the occasional new building within the districts. Our Preservation Committee also plays an important role in monitoring the work and policies of the Landmarks Preservation Commission as an agency.
For more on types and criteria of landmarks in New York City, there is a wealth of information available on the website of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, including the fantastic Discover NYC Landmarks map. The LPC also maintains helpful and thorough pages about the designation process for new landmarks, the alteration process for designated buildings, and up to date information about current applications.
Learn more at the links below.

Certificate of Appropriateness Items
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19 Jul
163-165 East 78th Street
DetailsA pair of vernacular rowhouses with Italianate style influences built
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992 Madison Avenue – 25 East 77th Street
DetailsA neo-Italian Renaissance style apartment hotel building designed by Schwartz
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10 Oct
800 Park Avenue
DetailsA neo-Renaissance style apartment building designed by Electus D. Litchfield
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23 Aug
53 East 79th Street
DetailsAn Italian Renaissance style townhouse designed by Trowbridge & Livingston
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17 Jun
North Meadow Center – Central Park
DetailsA building constructed c. 1910, within an English Romantic style
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25 Apr
BREAKING NEWS! Owner of Treadwell Farm’s Neglected Building Withdraws LPC Application
DetailsIn an unexpected turn of events, the Landmarks Preservation Commission
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25 Apr
Advocacy Alert: 210 East 62nd Street! Your voice needed at LPC this Tuesday
DetailsNext Tuesday, April 26th, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) will
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17 May
4 East 66th Street
DetailsA neo-Italian Renaissance style apartment building designed by J.E.R. Carpenter
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15 Mar
201 East 65th Street
DetailsA modern-style mixed-use complex, consisting of an apartment house, underground
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04 Feb
160 East 70th Street
DetailsItalianate style residence with some Neo-Classical elements, designed by William
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19 Oct
61 East 77th Street
DetailsA neo-Federal style school building with Beaux-Art style features designed
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04 May
807 Park Avenue
DetailsAn altered apartment, originally built as a Romanesque Revival/neo-Renaissance style
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19 Feb
405-415 East 59th Street
DetailsA Beaux Arts style “through-type” cantilever bridge, spanning the East
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10 Feb
1295 Madison
DetailsA Modern/neo-Classical style apartment building designed by Rosario Candela and
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18 Dec
Roosevelt Island Lighthouse
DetailsA Modern/neo-Classical style apartment building designed by Rosario Candela and
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12 Dec
110th Street and Lenox Avenue, Central Park
DetailsAn Italianate/Second Empire style rowhouse designed by John Sexton and
Other City & State Testimonies
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26 Apr
FRIENDS Submits Testimony at Scoping Meeting for Lenox Hill Hospital Expansion Plans
DetailsLast month, on March 2, 2023, the Department of City
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02 Mar
New 2023 Expansion Plans for Northwell Health, Lenox Hill Hospital
DetailsAfter shelving expansion plans during the pandemic, Lenox Hill Hospital
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30 Jan
Proposed Assembly Districts: Deja Vu All Over Again?
DetailsNew district lines for New York State Assembly districts are
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10 Aug
Proposed Council Districts: Your Interests are About to Take a Backseat
DetailsNew district lines for New York City’s 51 Council Districts
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25 Apr
BREAKING NEWS! Owner of Treadwell Farm’s Neglected Building Withdraws LPC Application
DetailsIn an unexpected turn of events, the Landmarks Preservation Commission
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25 Apr
Advocacy Alert: 210 East 62nd Street! Your voice needed at LPC this Tuesday
DetailsNext Tuesday, April 26th, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) will
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05 Aug
Elected Officials and Community Members Voice Their Opposition Against the Blood Center Rezoning
DetailsLast week, the City Planning Commission held a Public Hearing
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08 Apr
FRIENDS Weighs in on City and State Proposals to Close Zoning Loopholes
DetailsThe public discussion around the urgent need to close zoning loopholes that
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26 Jan
Third Avenue and 74th Street Tower Heads to the BSA
DetailsA proposed development at 1297-1299 Third Avenue, on the same block
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25 Jan
Voiding the Voids on the Upper East Side
DetailsFRIENDS has been sounding the drum about the mechanical void
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30 Jun
FRIENDS Testifies at City Council Hearing on POPS
DetailsOn June 29th, the City Council’s Committee on Land Use
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FRIENDS testified on your behalf at the LPC Chair appointment hearing
DetailsFriends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, founded in