Advocacy Alert: Tell CPC You’re Against the Blood Center Rezoning

FRIENDS created this form to streamline the submission of written testimony to the City Planning Commission. While we highly encourage you to submit your own personalized testimony in opposition to this project, you can also fill in this form and we commit to upload each submission to the City Planning

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118 East 62nd Street

A rowhouse designed by Robert Mook and built in 1869-70 and altered in a late Beaux Arts style by Carrere & Hastings in 1909. Application is to replace areaway ironwork.

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19 East 74th Street

An Italianate style residence built c. 1869 and altered in a simplified neo-Federal style by Schwartz & Gross in 1930. Application is to replace windows and modify an opening.

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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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15 East 91st Street

A Modern style apartment building designed by Leonard Schultze & Associates and built in 1946-47. Application is to remove a balcony enclosure.

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1083 Fifth Avenue

A Beaux-Arts style townhouse designed by Turner & Kilian and built in 1901-02, with significant alterations by Ogden Codman in 1913-15. Application is to enlarge a rooftop bulkhead.

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300 Upper East Siders Joined Elected Officials to Stop the Blood Center Tower

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, State Senator Liz Krueger, Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright, Council Members Ben Kallos and Keith Powers, and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer joined around 300 Upper East Side residents, community groups, and students and families from the Julia Richman Education Complex yesterday in a rally against New York

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4 East 66th Street

A neo-Italian Renaissance style apartment building designed by J.E.R. Carpenter and built in 1919-20. Application is to create and modify window openings and install balconies.

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East Side Extra: Footloose: A virtual walk through the 1980s Upper East Side

In honor of Jane’s Walk 2021, we are thrilled to debut our collection of local architectural photography from that decade, and share highlights from our 80s archive, documenting the buildings and streetscapes of the Upper East Side.

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lower level view of NY blood center rendering

In The News: UES residents at war with New York Blood Center over HQ building plans

Read Melissa Klein's article at the New York Post about the ongoing fight against the Blood Center/Longfellow redevelopment.

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