Watch It Again: “Yorkville: Housing Laboratory” with Lucie Levine
Watch a recording of our illustrated webinar "Yorkville: Housing Laboratory" exploring Yorkville’s history as a testing ground for affordable and progressive housing schemes by historian Lucie Levine Lucie Levine held on February 18, 2025.
1000 Fifth Avenue – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A Beaux-Arts and Roman style museum building designed by Vaux and Mould, R.M. Hunt, and McKim, Mead and White, and built in 1864-1965, with later additions built between 1975-1990 and designed by Roche-Dinkeloo. Application is to demolish the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing (Wing T) addition and construct a new addition.
156 East 71st Street
An Italianate style rowhouse designed by W. O'Gorman and built in 1871. Application is to construct rooftop and rear yard additions, and modify the areaway.
6 East 74th Street
An Italianate style rowhouse built in c. 1871 and modified with eclectic style details in 1898 and 1928. Application is to enlarge rooftop and rear yard additions and modify windows at the rear façade.
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.
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
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.
132-134 East 64th Street
A rowhouse built in 1879, and altered with classical details by Gurdon S. Parker in 1941.
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
809 Madison Avenue
A neo-Renaissance style apartment building designed by F.B. and A. Ware and built in 1924- 25. Application is to construct additions, modify and create window openings, and replace windows.