16 East 79th Street

A pair of vernacular rowhouses with Italianate style influences built in 1861 and later combined and enlarged. Application is to modify an entry, alter the penthouse, construct rear yard and rooftop additions, and excavate to lower the cellar floor.

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829 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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Central Park – Harlem Meer

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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49 East 67th Street

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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5 East 63rd 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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LPC Calendars Breuer Building for Individual and Interior Landmark Consideration

The Landmarks Preservation Commission today took action to protect the Breuer building (the former Whitney Museum) on Madison Avenue, by voting to calendar it for consideration as both an individual and interior landmark.

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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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