Remember your FRIENDS this special year!
Thirty years! As illustrated by the timeline above, Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts is celebrating 30 years of vigorous work preserving and promoting our irreplaceable Upper East Side neighborhoods. Over the years, FRIENDS, together with invaluable supporters like you, has led a progression of successful campaigns to
Call for Entries – 2013 Annual Awards
his April, FRIENDS of the Upper East Side Historic Districts will celebrate outstanding achievement in preservation, architecture, and advocacy on the Upper East Side during our Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony.
New & Improved: Walk with FRIENDS!!
FRIENDS of the Upper East Side Historic Districts is thrilled to release our redesigned Walk with FRIENDS: An Architectural and Cultural Map & Guide to the Upper East Side.
OUR TOWN: “In Search of Yorkville’s Hidden Gems”
by Paul Biscegli If you live in Yorkville, don’t be surprised if you see Tara Kelly or one of her volunteers standing on the street, notepad in hand, staring at your building. “As soon as people know you aren’t a developer, they usually don’t mind,” Kelly said. “I tell them
34 East 68th Street
A neo-Grec style rowhouse designed by R.W. Buckley and built in 1879. Application is to reconstruct the facade.
909 Madison Avenue
A neo-Federal style bank building designed by Schultze and Weaver and constructed in 1931. Application is create a new entrance, install a barrier free access ramp, light-boxes at windows, and mechanical equipment at the roof.
785 Fifth Avenue
An apartment building designed by Emery Roth and Sons and built in 1962-63. Application is to alter window openings, replace terrace guardrails, and construct a rooftop addition.
131 East 70th Street
A row house designed by Robert Mook, built ca. 1871, and altered in the Anglo-Italianate style by Grosvenor Atterbury in 1909-11. Application is to replace an existing rear addition.
1080 Fifth Avenue
A Modern style apartment building designed by Wechsler & Schimenti and built in 1960-61.
30 East 65th Street
An apartment house designed by Kikkins & Lyras and built in 1959. Application is to modify the vestibule and replace the canopy.