1014 Fifth Avenue

A Beaux-Arts style townhouse designed by Welch, Smith & Provot and built in 1906-1907. Application is to amend work approved under LPC-23-00224, to modify doors, install signage, alter the areaway, and replace sidewalk pavers.

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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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640 Park Avenue

A neo-Italian Renaissance style apartment building designed by J. E. R. Carpenter and built in 1913-14. Application is to replace windows.

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132-134 East 64th Street

A rowhouse built in 1879, and altered with classical details by Gurdon S. Parker in 1941.

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FRIENDS Issues Joint Statement Opposing Lenox Hill Hospital Redevelopment Proposal

FRIENDS testified at the July 10 City Planning Commission Public Hearing on City of Yes for Housing Opportunity, the New York City Department of City Planning's suite of zoning text amendments meant to encourage and incentivize housing creation and address the affordability crisis in the city. Friends was among some

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809 Madison 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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945 Madison Avenue

A Modern style museum building designed by Marcel Breuer & Associates and built in 1964-1966. Application is to install signage.

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21 East 74th Street

A neo-Italian Renaissance style apartment building designed by Schwartz & Gross and built in 1924-1925. Application is to replace a solarium.

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Affordable Housing Loss in Yorkville

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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Musical Mutual Protective Union- 215 East 85th Street

Musical Mutual Protective Union 215 East 85th Street New York NY

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