In a garden-variety dispute, preservationists are fighting the Frick Museum’s plans to build over a lush courtyard — the only one in the city designed by famed landscape architect Russell Page.
“This is a masterpiece of landscape architecture,” said Charles Birnbaum, president of the Cultural Landscape Foundation.
The Frick, on East 70th Street, planted the garden in the 1970s after demolishing three town houses to make way for an expansion.
Museum directors told The Post the garden had always been envisioned as a temporary amenity.