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2017 Annual Awards – Call for Entries
This spring, FRIENDS of the Upper East Side Historic Districts will celebrate outstanding achievement in preservation, architecture, and advocacy on the Upper East Side during our 34th Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony.
FRIENDS Announces our 2016 Ambassador to the Upper East Side!
FREINDS announces O. Kelley Anderson as 2016's Ambassador of the Upper East Side! Raised in a historic house on Beacon Hill, Kelley Anderson is both an erudite embodiment of the
Join FRIENDS for our Spring Events!
What was it like to live in Yorkville when 86th Street was known as German Broadway, when the smell of hops from the Ruppert and Ehret’s breweries filled the air,
Photos of our 33rd Annual Meeting & Awards Ceremony!
FRIENDS was delighted to hold our 33rd Annual Meeting & Awards Ceremony at the Cosmopolitan Club on March 29, 2016. Be sure to check out the photos of this celebration,
33rd Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony: Tuesday, March 29th
We are pleased to hold our 33rd Annual Meeting & Awards Ceremony at The Cosmopolitan Club.
2016 Annual Awards – Call For Entries
This spring, 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
12th Annual Ambassador to the Upper East Side Award Dinner a Huge Success
More than 200 members of New York City’s philanthropic, preservation and civic communities gathered last evening at the Metropolitan Club as FRIENDS of the Upper East Side Historic Districts (FRIENDS)
Jacquie Ottman:
Ottman & Company Book Talk
Sara Cedar Miller:
Book Talk: Before Central Park
Lucie Levine:
200 Years of Parks: Celebrating Frederick Law Olmsted
Bob Shaw and Lauri Pitkus:
Behind the Scenes: The Gilded Age
Lucie Levine:
Horsing Around the Upper East Side
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro:
Book Talk: Names of New York
Betsy Bober Polivy:
The Art of Walking Manhattan Sideways
Andrew Dolkart, Shelley Hayreh, Richard Roth Jr., and Emery Roth II:
Celebrating 150 Years of Emery Roth, Architect of Our City
Professor Penny Sparke:
A City In Good Taste: Elsie de Wolfe’s New York
Lucie Levine:
Back to School
Lucie Levine:
Putting People in the Buildings: Yorkville
Daniel Garodnick:
Saving Stuyvesant Town
Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin:
Can You Imagine: A Look at Never-Built projects on the Upper East Side
Paulina Bren:
The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
Betsy Bober Polivy:
Walking Manhattan Sideways
38th Annual Meeting & Awards
Lucie Levine:
Ada Louise Huxtable's New York
Tricia Foley:
The Lost Voice of Mary L Booth
Andrew Alpern and Simon Fieldhouse:
Door to Door: A Virtual Look at New York’s Posh Portals
Matt Postal:
From Park Avenue to Pennsylvania Avenue: A Presidential View of the Upper East Side
Gary Lawrence:
New Year, Old World: Gilded Grandeur on the Upper East Side
Roberta Brandes Gratz and Anthony C. Wood:
It’s a Helluva Town: Joan K. Davidson, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, and the Fight for a Better New York
Dan Allen:
Historic Building Materials
Lucie Levine:
Upper East Side Hotels
Susan De Vries:
Building History Detectives
Susan Tunick:
Terra Cotta: Don't Take it for Granite!
Leigh Hallingby:
A Feminist Walk Through Harlem
Patrick Ciccone:
Bricks and Brownstone
Meredith Bergmann:
Monumental Women
Zachary Violette:
The Decorated Tenement
First Avenue Estate:
The Architectural, Social, and Cultural Context
First Avenue Estate:
The Legal Context and Significance
First Avenue Estate:
The Community Advocacy
First Avenue Estate:
Looking Forward
Family Walking Tour:
Historic Yorkville
Andrew Dolkart:
The Rowhouse Reborn
George Janes in:
How Do Supertowers Get So Tall?
A Perilous Path to Protection:
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of a Landmark
The Upper East Side:
A Framework for the Future of Five Neighborhoods
Shaped by Immigrants:
A History of Yorkville