The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is set to review a proposal for modifications to 132-134 East 64th Street, two adjacent townhouses on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Prepared by JPD Engineering, the proposal outlines plans for alterations to the building’s front façade, as well as additions to its rooftop and rear. The property is located between Lexington and Park Avenues.
Proposed front façade alterations involve updating the buildings’ current modernist exterior design from a stucco finish to a more traditional limestone, complete with decorative lintels around windows and the addition of a cornice, which is more in line with the style of neighboring buildings. In addition, the proposal outlines plans to replace the current recessed entrance with a raised stoop, and to modify the window configurations to match classical proportions.
Modifications in the buildings’ rear and rooftops under the proposal include the creation of an addition with a setback, featuring stucco finishes and sliding glass doors, the reconstruction of the existing rear brickwork, and the expansion of window openings.
Transit nearby 132-134 East 64th Street includes subway stations served by the 4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, W, and F trains.
The review is scheduled for February 4.
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I don’t think there’s anything that needs to be changed, regarding the proportion of the windows to the brickwork in the back: Thanks.
So these eight apartments will be turned into a single family home?
I toured it . it was two houses originally.. it’s a wreck inside…
all the decorative facade was removed years ago…
restoration is only a positive.
Almost all of the rowhouses in the city were originally built as single family homes, yet for most of their history they operated as multifamily flats. Converting these two townhomes from multi-family apartments to a single family mcmansion erases 90% of their long history when they housed hundreds of new yorkers, while focusing on the very short period of time when they housed a few dozen.
Huge improvement that is incredibly respectful of its surroundings. I hope the LPC approves it. Really nice renderings. I especially love the raised stoop.
It would be much more respectful if the building was torn down and replaced with a higher rise mixed use building like the one right next to it!
AS A NEIGHBOR TO THE LOCATION (I’M ON EAST 65TH) – BEEN HERE SINCE 1980 – THE TREND, ESPECIALLY IN THIS AREA, SEEMS TO BE, RETURNING THESE – MULTI APTS. TO THE ORIGINAL – SINGLE HOME DWELLING.
VISUALLY, YES – IT’S A PLUS. HOUSING WISE … NOT CERTAIN.
It’s not a plus. This mcmansion will probably sit empty most of the year with a few lights on timers to make it look occupied. It would be better these people would instead buys a unit in one of the towers on billionaire row, yet unfortunately its cheaper and easier to buy our affordable homes and combine them.
The facade is not a modernist design, rather an later renovation, now itself pretty old, that stripped away original historical detail. For street appeal, the changes are appealing enough, but no need to pretend the later and longer iteration of the building didn’t create its own history and character. Not expansively bourgeois, more urban working class.
Most of these comments sound like cranky old goats.
Be real. The design is a vast improvement. Whether it is one home or 8 homes, this one building on the Upper East Side will never solve all of the housing issues in NYC.
Let it rest and comments might be more constructive unless the design is truly terrible or the building use is out of sync with the neighborhood.
Yes. And I don’t think the article mentions that it being made into a single family home.