…shining pinnacle of the style, Art Deco architecture took many forms across New York—from the monumental to the modest, from Midtown to the Village. Village Preservation’s interactive Art Deco map—explore…
Read More…of industrial elements, and which, in reference to the exhibition, eventually came to be known as Art Deco. To celebrate this anniversary, Village Preservation created a StoryMap highlighting Art Deco…
Read MoreThe East Village’s Art Deco structures may not immediately catch the eye, but at a closer look, they exemplify the many unique and handsome features from within the Art Deco…
Read More…more than three decades. The first years of his life were spent in an Art Deco apartment building on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. The Art Deco Society of…
Read MoreVillage Preservation’s recently released A Century of Art Deco Storymap features some 40 outstanding examples of the beloved design style. Among those historic structures — most of which still stand…
Read More…Chrysler Building, or Rockefeller Center. However Greenwich Village and the East Village boast some of their own Art Deco gems, also worth examining. Art Deco was known by several names…
Read MoreClick to view map Today is the centennial of the birth of Art Deco, the streamlined Jazz Age style that defined the interwar years. Art Deco profoundly shaped our city,…
Read More…Art Deco 90 Seventh Avenue So. and 307 Bleecker Street This Art Deco building is quite beautiful and is a welcome addition to our GVHD50 map. Located on what used…
Read More…their special histories, and reveal their (sometimes hidden) connections to the Village. With its parallel octagonal towers rising above the beach, the sprawling Art Deco bathhouse complex at Jacob Riis…
Read More…nevertheless capture the kinetic zeitgeist of the era. Click to view map You can explore it all with our new Art Deco StoryMap, which provides an overview of Art Deco…
Read More…release earlier this year of its Art Deco Centennial Interactive StoryMap. Find out more about the July 30 Art Deco program + register — CLICK HERE Explore our Interactive Art…
Read More…unknown. CLICK HERE for more info + to register Art Deco Centennial: A Guide to the Jazz Age Style in Our Neighborhoods, City, and World Wednesday, July 30, 2025 6…
Read More…wealthiest people in the world once docked along the Hudson. This illustrated talk will explore this extraordinary period of New York’s waterfront, now nearly forgotten and unknown. Art Deco Centennial:…
Read More…the corner of Bleecker and Lafayette Streets, 59 Bleecker Street was built in 1929 as an automobile service station and “taxpayer,” in the Art Deco style. It was designed by…
Read More…his career. This building is a rare example of the influence of the Viennese Secessionist movement in the United States that perfectly illustrates the movement’s influence on the Art Deco…
Read MoreLandmarks60 Timeline Read more View full-screen map A Century of Art Deco Read more View full-screen map…
Read More…Explore our Art Deco Centennial Map — CLICK HERE Click to watch video Explore our Guide to French Flats Map — CLICK HERE Click to watch video Explore our interactive…
Read More…architectural firm of Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker to replace the former mansion with the art deco structure we see today which serves as the Salvation Army Headquarters (a New York…
Read More…cables. These are just some examples Art Deco buildings within our neighborhoods. To see other examples of Art Deco in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, check out our…
Read MoreNew York Deco with Tony Robins The Chrysler Building, the Waldorf-Astoria, Rockefeller Center– these are among the hundreds of Art Deco monuments that, during the 1920s and ‘30s, helped create…
Read More…up a metalwork studio, making Art Deco style accessories for hotels and showrooms. During World War II, wartime metal shortages damaged his business, so Lobel shifted his focus to smaller…
Read More…the market, and the firehouse were demolished and replaced by the City’s only House of Detention for Women, an 11-story building designed in the French Art Deco style by Benjamin…
Read More…heights in Manhattan, after more than 90 years the Empire State Building still stands as a shining symbol of New York City. Opened in 1931, the 102-story-high art deco skyscraper…
Read More…and apartment buildings that defined the 1920s and 1930s, incorporating Beaux-Arts and Art Deco details to create the decorative streetscapes we know and love. Relive the moment by watching the…
Read More…detail. Art Deco Gems of the Village To mark 100 years since the official debut of what became known as Art Deco at the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs…
Read More…work with the Works Progress Administration. Under this program, he was commissioned to create sculptures for the Apex Building, the art deco Federal Trade Commission Building in Washington, D.C. which…
Read More…Fifth Avenue. Federal details at the ground floor of the original 1-3 Fifth Avenue, 1910 A Century of Art Deco We’ve been spotlighting the incredible influence of Art Deco on…
Read More…York’s overcrowded streets and into safe, modern, sanitary indoor marketplaces. Dozens of these were built across the city, all bearing a similar Works Project Administration-inspired Art Deco streamlined look, giving thousands of…
Read More…these were built across the city, all bearing a similar WPA-inspired art deco streamlined look, giving thousands of merchants for the first time a controlled environment within which to sell…
Read More…the library moved out and uptown again to its current location. Sadly, their magnificent building on University Place was demolished, and in 1940 was replaced with the Art Deco apartment…
Read More…more humane, Art Deco-style and WPA-mural adorned Women’s House of Detention. Ethel Rosenberg was held in the Women’s House of Detention in the early 1950s during her trial for espionage…
Read More…Deco Jewels specializes in antique and vintage costume jewelry. Ranging from Art Deco pieces to mid-century sparkle, the shop’s selection is a treasure trove for lovers of history and ornament….
Read More…and 1930s, incorporating Beaux-Arts and Art Deco details to create the decorative streetscapes we know and love, from The Shenandoah in Sheridan Square to the San Remo on Central Park…
Read More…the Holland Tunnel. Designed by architect Hector Hamilton for Charlton Street physician George Stivers, the Tunnel Garage’s eye-catching design is generally referred to as “Art Deco,” as it embodies the…
Read More…1940. Designed by architect Hector Hamilton for Charlton Street physician George Stivers, the Tunnel Garage’s eye-catching design is generally referred to as “Art Deco,” as it embodies the streamlined forms,…
Read More…that incorporate Art Deco and Beaux-Arts elements. Very recently, 299 West 12th Street has garnered a lot of press for its celebrity resident Jennifer Aniston. 299 West 12th Street Abingdon…
Read More…10 years later, but in that time crafted many other historic architectural works in our city, including the Daily News Building and the Art Deco masterpiece McGraw-Hill Building at opposite…
Read More…of the Art Deco style, of the Roaring ’20s, and of the city’s self-confidence in its future before the Great Depression. As stated in the New York City landmark designation…
Read More…courthouse beginning in 1929, the Women’s House of Detention. An Art Deco behemoth intended to embody a more enlightened approach to incarceration, it soon became known for its horrible conditions, the…
Read More…Accessories (July 2018 Business of the Month) to stay, while others were not so lucky. Rebecca, however, has seen business improve and feels optimistic about the shop’s outlook. Art Deco…
Read More…combined, and upgraded in the 1930, as this part of the Village saw an influx of artists and writers. The ground floors were combined in an art deco style as…
Read More…that houses 313-315 Bowery was originally constructed as two Old Law tenements in 1878, later altered in 1934 with its orange brick Art Deco facade that still exists today. It…
Read More…Detention, an eleven-story Art Deco prison located next door to the Jefferson Market Courthouse (now Library). as “a defiant pocket of female resistance, ever-present as a reminder of possibility, as…
Read More…glossy, ill-designed cover strewn with garish colors and art deco type. How different this reading experience is from hovering over the dark, hushed, carefully made letterpress editions produced by Nin’s…
Read More…and rebuilding of the park, several historic structures in the park face likely demolition. East River Park, Ca. 1940 Two extant Art Deco gems were constructed in 1938 in advance…
Read More…The Sullivan Street Playhouse before (left) and after (right) Tunnel Garage In 2006, we lost the battle to save the 1922 Tunnel Garage, one of the earliest Art Deco buildings…
Read More…An Art Deco building with an Art Moderne entrance door, it is six-stories tall with 117 residential units and was designated as part of the Grand Concourse National Register Historic…
Read More…for Social Research building auditorium. The striking 500-seat art deco auditorium, designed in 1931, was designated an interior New York City landmark in 1997 — one of the very few…
Read More…Meeting will be held at The New School Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street. The striking 500-seat art deco auditorium, designed in 1931, was designated an interior New York City…
Read More…was closed in 1971 (it was demolished in 1974). The structure was designed by the architecture firm of Sloan and Robertson, known for its Art Deco towers. The Women’s House…
Read More…of the Art Deco style and the Roaring 20s’ exuberant building boom before the Depression. In 1976 the building became a National Historic Landmark, and in 1978 the building was…
Read More…Village in the fall of that year. She brought along her trusty Minolta SRT201 and her love of Art Deco and mid-century buildings, picture palaces, ghost signs, ephemera and pop…
Read More…and grew its subscriber base by 20%. New interactive online maps highlighted the bicentennial of Fifth Avenue and Art Deco’s centennial, and explored French flats and 60 years of local…
Read More…York Deco with Tony Robins On October 18th, 2017 (again at Jefferson Market Library), expert tour guide and author Tony Robins guided us through the breathtaking works of Art Deco…
Read More…LaMotta spots his second wife-to-be, Vickie. The scene takes place in the interior ballroom of Webster Hall, where you can spot the scalloped balconies and Art Deco frame of the…
Read MoreThe GE Building was designed by Cross & Cross for the Radio Victor Corporation (RCA). If the “art deco masterpiece” that is 570 Lexington Avenue no longer stood on the…
Read More…the site of a former carriage factory. The 1895 building of the Salvation Army Territorial Headquarters was replaced by a stunning group of Art Deco style buildings designed by renowned…
Read More…theaters, and especially in later years, office buildings), Roth was known to combine the classicism of Beaux Arts design with the more contemporary Art Deco style to create some of…
Read More…it changed its name to the Wheatsworth Company and constructed a large new Art Deco/Viennese Secessionist style factory building directly adjacent to 143-145 Avenue D, at 444 East Tenth Street,…
Read More…under a dozen tenements were built on the site of the cemetery in 1867, all but one of which were conjoined around 1940 into the single Art Deco-styled apartment complex…
Read More…the way east to First Avenue. You can see the lettering of the Art Deco sign of the First Avenue Retail Market, a Works Progress Administration era building that is…
Read More…buildings in Greenwich Village in the 1910s, 20s, and 30s, it had been modernized and updated, with the three buildings combined and given a new streamlined Art Deco facade (at…
Read More…in the United States, replacing a prior Salvation Army building on the site. The new headquarters was designed by “architect of the century” Ralph Walker in the Art Deco style,…
Read More…was made. Interested in Art Deco? Our Art Deco Map highlights the sleek, stylish buildings of the 1920s and 30s that still grace the streets of Greenwich Village, the East…
Read More…the designation report describes its style as “Art Deco/Modern Classical” and mentions that Mr. Birns also owned the Atlantic Talking Machine Company, which sold record players. You can read a…
Read More…Prison, the jailhouse was demolished to make way for the supposedly more humane, Art Deco-style and WPA-mural adorned Women’s House of Detention. Ethel Rosenberg was held in the Women’s House…
Read More…Then the library moved uptown to its current location, and in 1940 the beautiful building was replaced with an art deco apartment building. New York Society Library, 1893. Courtesy of…
Read More437 West 13th Street when it housed Atlas Meats It looks like the end is near for 437 West 13th Street, the historic Art Deco meatpacking building on the corner…
Read More…feature-length film was still uncommon and films in general were generally considered low-culture — ”photo plays” or not.” In 1930 a balcony, new lobby, and art deco renovations to the…
Read More…during the height of the Art Deco period, bringing to life such New York City landmarks as the Barclay-Vesey Building at 140 West Street (completed 1926), the Western Union Building…
Read MoreThe Women’s House of Detention, which once stood where we can now enjoy the beautiful Jefferson Market Garden, was more than just a prison. Opened in 1932, the Art Deco-style…
Read More…rise above the parapet line, this building serves as a strong representation of its art deco style and is also included on our Art Deco Map which explores examples of the style throughout our neighborhoods. These…
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…in the fall of 1986. She brought along her trusty Minolta SRT201 and her love of Art Deco and mid-century buildings, picture palaces, ghost signs, ephemera and pop culture past…
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…in the fall of 1986. She brought along her trusty Minolta SRT201 and her love of Art Deco and mid-century buildings, picture palaces, ghost signs, ephemera and pop culture past…
Posted June 1, 2020
Read More…University Place became 109 University Place. Here they remained for 81 years, until 1937. Sadly, their magnificent building on University Place was demolished, and in 1940 was replaced with the Art Deco apartment…
Read More…the first Spanish-speaking Catholic parish in New York City, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, the gorgeous Art Deco Salvation Army building which was only recently landmarked (finally!), and much more….
Read More…black and gold Art Deco-style plaque was placed in 1946 under the heading “Honor Roll,” which states it was placed “In honor of the men and women who served in…
Read More…men, one with a bow and arrow aimed toward a fleeing antelope. Grand, Art Deco Entrance to the apartment building at 130 West 30th Street Then, some special Villagers… So,…
Read More…that it was once the site of an eleven-story Art Deco prison, the notorious Women’s House of Detention. Some of its most famous prisoners were Dorothy Day, Angela Davis, and…
Read MoreThe House of D: A Panel on the Women’s House of Detention Co-hosted by the Jefferson Market Library. Audre Lorde described the Women’s House of Detention, an eleven-story Art Deco…
Read More…a trusty Minolta SRT201, a love of Art Deco and mid-century buildings, and a passion for all things pop culture. She shot everything that caught her eye, but most of…
Read More…moving to the East Village in the fall of 1986. She brought along her trusty Minolta SRT201 and her love of Art Deco and mid-century buildings, picture palaces, ghost signs,…
Read More…West 13th Street sides. The adjacent corner lot is home to a two-story Art Deco market building, a relatively rare architectural style for this neighborhood. Looking east on Little West…
Read More…Art Deco facade that stands today. A music venue was originally established here in 1969 by Hilly Kristal as “Hilly’s.” By 1973, he changed the name to CBGB & OMFUG,…
Read More…Civil Rights and Social Justice, Women’s Suffrage, Hip-Hop, Bob Dylan, and Art Deco, Greek Revival and French Flats architecture to those covering various geographies such as the East Village, South…
Read More…of preservation, not all buildings on Lower Second Avenue were replaced; today Birns’ art deco buildings are interspersed with remnants of the avenue’s earliest days. Interestingly, Saul Birns went on…
Read More…Street and features the striking art deco Substation 235 of the New York City Transit Authority. Constructed in 1932 for the new Independent Subway System’s (IND) 8th Avenue line which…
Read More…as it is, and we have seen historic building after building undermined in recent years. From the Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments in its north to the Art Deco Tunnel Garage…
Read More…in 1933 and was designed by architect Matthew W. DelGaudio. It contains some nice art deco flourishes in the terra cotta-topped vertical elements (see detail below). DelGaudio also designed the…
Read More…of the world’s most iconic structures. The Art Deco Empire State Building was named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers…
Read More…moved out and uptown again, to its current location. Sadly, their magnificent building on University Place was demolished, and in 1940 was replaced with the Art Deco apartment building found…
Read More…Miami’s Art Deco district, New Orleans’ French Quarter and Baltimore’s districts of rowhouses all draw residents with their historic architecture. But while this trend is a cause for celebration, it…
Read More…vehicular connection across the Hudson. It was also a striking example of early proto-Art Deco architecture. Village Preservation fought to save the building and its polychrome terra cotta medallion of…
Read More…—- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An Art Deco style apartment buildling designed by J.M. Felson and constructed in 1928. Application is to alter the ground floor,…
Read More…agenda: An Art Deco style apartment building designed by Robert J. Lyons and built in 1929-1931. Application is to construct rooftop trellises. 2) View the application: Available in PDF 3)…
Read More…Bleecker Street facade. See photos below. APPLICATION: From the LPC agenda: An Art Deco style building built in 1931. Application is to install storefront infill. PHOTOS OF THE APPLICATION: From…
Read MoreAPPROVED on 04/12/2011 Greenwich Village Historic District Intersection of West 4th Street & 7th Avenue South APPLICATION: An Art Deco style commercial building designed by Phelps Barnum and built in…
Read More…current location. Sadly, their magnificent building on University Place was demolished, and in 1940 was replaced with the Art Deco apartment building found there today. 109 University Place as it…
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