LPC Calendars Breuer Building for Individual and Interior Landmark Consideration

For the fifth time in recent years, there is a fast-moving proposal at the State level to lift the longstanding cap on residential development in New York City. Lifting the 12 FAR cap would potentially unleash a flood of development rights that are likely to yield more supertall superluxury development,

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43 East 70th Street

A French Classical style mansion designed by Horace Trumbauer and built in 1909-1912. Application is to modify a masonry opening, construct a breezeway, and install a barrier-free access lift.

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694-696 Madison Avenue

Three neo-Grec style rowhouses designed by J.H. Valentine and built in 1878-79, and later altered with two-story storefronts.

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1 East 78th Street

1 East 78th Street

A French Classical style mansion designed by Horace Trumbauer and built in 1909-1912. Application is to modify a masonry opening, construct a breezeway, and install a barrier-free access lift.

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817 Fifth Avenue

A Beaux-Arts and Roman style museum building built in 1864-1965 and designed by Vaux and Mould, R.M. Hunt, McKim Mead and White, and others; with designated interior spaces including an entrance vestibule, the Great Hall, a passageway, corridors, the Grand Staircase, halls, balconies, and all vaults and domes above these

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944 Park Avenue

944 Park Avenue

An Art Deco style apartment building designed by George F. Pelham and built in 1929-1930. Application is for the installation of HVAC equipment.

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1000 Fifth Avenue – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Beaux-Arts and Roman style museum building built in 1864-1965 and designed by Vaux and Mould, R.M. Hunt, McKim Mead and White, and others; with designated interior spaces including an entrance vestibule, the Great Hall, a passageway, corridors, the Grand Staircase, halls, balconies, and all vaults and domes above these

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1312 Madison Avenue

A Renaissance Revival style apartment hotel designed by George W. Spitzer and built in 1897. Application is to legalize the installation of an awning and HVAC units.

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823 Madison Avenue

A playground originally constructed in the 1930s, and pathways, within an English Romantic style public park designed in 1857-1858 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Application is to modify the playground footprint and pathways, and replace fencing.

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1185 Park Avenue

A playground originally constructed in the 1930s, and pathways, within an English Romantic style public park designed in 1857-1858 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Application is to modify the playground footprint and pathways, and replace fencing.

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