1000 Fifth Avenue: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Individual Landmark) – Beyer Blinder Belle and Frida Escobedo – 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 for demolition and for the new building for the Modern and Contemporary collection, the “Tang Wing,” at the southwest corner of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.**
6 East 74th Street (Upper East Side Historic District) – Thomas Juul-Hansen – An Eclectic (originally Italianate) style building designed by an unknown architect and constructed in 1871, with alterations in 1898, 1928, and 1952. Application is for alterations to the existing, non-historic rear yard additions, the expansion of an existing penthouse addition 4’8’’ at the rear, and new elevator/stair bulkheads and mechanical equipment at the roof.