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Article: Neighbors cry foul over Whitney expansion plan.(Construction & Design)(Whitney Museum of American Art)
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- Real Estate Weekly
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- March 23, 2005
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The Whitney Museum of American Art may have to put up a fight to expand its space on Madison Avenue, if their more than 600 neighbors have their way.
The residents who oppose the expansion that would require the demolition of two 19th Century brownstones and the alteration of five additional buildings met with the City's Landmark Preservation Committee last week along with museum officials.
The museum needs the approval of the commission to begin the plan it announced last November to raze or alter the buildings it has owned since the early 1980s.
But residents say the proposed expansion is too high for the neighboring buildings.
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