1318 Madison Avenue

1318 Madison Avenue

A Renaissance Revival style rowhouse designed by Gilbert A. Schellenger and built in 1889-90. Application is to construct a rear yard addition.

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9 East 67th Street

A neo-French Renaissance style townhouse designed by Thom & Wilson built c. 1881-1882, and altered by Hiss and Weekes in 1912. Application is to replace windows.

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133-137 East 73rd Street

133-137 East 73rd Street

A neo-Georgian style residence designed by William H. Birkmire and built in 1899-1900 and a neo-Italian Renaissance style building designed by Charles Stegmayer and built in 1898-1899. Application is to construct a rooftop addition, alter the rear façade, and alter the stoop.

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A Warm and Festive Evening at FRIENDS 14th Annual Ambassador to the Upper East Side Award Dinner

On Monday, September 25th, 250 friends from around the city gathered to honor the incomparable Ann Pyne at our Fourteenth Annual Ambassador to the Upper East Side Award Dinner. Since 2002, Ann has been a partner at McMillen Inc. Interior Design and Decoration, the oldest design firm in America, where

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Hear City Council Candidates’ Plans for OUR Neighborhood – Candidates’ Forum August 30th

From 1939-1941, every building in New York City’s Five Boroughs was documented in a series of Tax Photos through a joint effort by the Works Progress Administration and the New York City Department of Taxation.

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55 East 92nd Street

55 East 92nd Street

Two Romanesque Revival style rowhouses designed by Louis Entzer, Jr. and built in 1893-94 and altered in 1946-47 by James E. Casale. Application is to construct rooftop and rear yard additions, excavate the cellar and rear yard, and alter the front façade.

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103 East 91st Street

103 East 91st Street

A rowhouse originally built in 1884-84 and altered in the neo-Georgian style by C. Dale Bradgeley in 1950-51. Application is to construct a rooftop addition.

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Ann Pyne

FRIENDS Announces our 2017 Ambassador to the Upper East Side!

From 1939-1941, every building in New York City’s Five Boroughs was documented in a series of Tax Photos through a joint effort by the Works Progress Administration and the New York City Department of Taxation.

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126 East 73rd Street

126 East 73rd Street

An Italianate style rowhouse built in 1873, and altered in the neo-Elizabethan style by Benjamin H. Webber in 1912. Application is to legalize the installation of an areaway gate and fence without Landmarks Preservation Commission permit(s).

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Moving Uptown

Moving Uptown: German-American Culture at the Turn of the 20th Century

During the decades around the turn of the 20th century, waves of German-Americans left their homes in the East Village/Lower East Side’s Kleindeutschland and headed north to Yorkville. 

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