1000 Fifth Avenue: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Individual Landmark) – Beyer Blinder Belle – A Beaux-Arts style building designed by numerous architects, chiefly, Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould, who designed the initial Ruskinian Gothic structure of the MET, and constructed in the 1880s, with additions in the 2000s. Application is to restore the three original entrance doors on the plaza at 83rd Street to create an additional step-free entrance to the Museum’s public spaces, as well as undertake a mechanical infrastructure project to replace the north side chiller plant, a project that involves the installation of new cooling towers behind a new louvered screen wall partially visible at 83rd Street.
593 Park Avenue (Upper East Side Historic District) – Walter B. Melvin Architects, LLC – A neo-Gothic building designed by Henry C. Pelton and Allen & Collens and constructed in 1920-1922. Application is for exterior lighting fixtures at the sanctuary and the belltower.
1185 Park Avenue (Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District) – Joshua Brandfonbrener – A neo-Gothic style building designed by Schwartz and Gross and constructed in 1928-1929. Application is to remove an existing half window and an existing AC louver in the maid’s room and replace it with a full louver in the entire window opening.
1185 Park Avenue (Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District) – Michael Doyle – A neo-Gothic style building designed by Schwartz and Gross and constructed in 1929. Application is to renovate six existing lightwells at the interior courtyard for new waterproofing and structural reinforcement.