FRIENDS of the Upper East Side's Fall 2025 Newsletter is LIVE!

The Fall 2025 issue is here, delivering a powerful look at the most urgent preservation battles and victories shaping the Upper East Side. This issue dives into the crisis of affordable housing and development, featuring an Open Letter to Mayoral Candidates. You will also find an in-depth analysis of the Mayor’s Charter Revision proposals going to a November vote, with FRIENDS urging a NO vote on measures #2, 3, and 4 that threaten to weaken public oversight of land use. Highlights of the Fall 2025 issue include:

• A major preservation win: the Landmark Designation of the Breuer Building (former Whitney Museum)—inside and out—securing a vital piece of Modernist architecture on the Upper East Side.
• An update on our ongoing efforts to protect Yorkville's immigrant-era architecture from the alarming trend of unchecked development and a steep decline in landmark designations.
• A look at the approved Lenox Hill Hospital expansion and the resulting loss of the hospital's 150-year architectural legacy, as its historic buildings face demolition.
• Updates from the Young FRIENDS Education Program, including highlights from a year of discovery with student field trips to iconic NYC neighborhoods and landmarks.

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