21 East 74th Street

A neo-Georgian style town house designed by Aymar Embury II and built in 1928-29. Application is to alter the front façade at the ground floor, and to modify fenestration on secondary facades.

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7 East 81st 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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60 East 93rd Street

A neo-Renaissance style hotel building designed by Louis Korn and built in 1899-1900. Application is to legalize the installation of signage without Landmarks Preservation Commission permit(s).

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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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20 East 76th Street (The Surrey Hotel)

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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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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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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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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