Demolished - Village Preservation

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74 8th Avenue, Billiards and North Village Deli Emporium (demolished)

Read about how Village Preservation fought and defeated the developer of the site’s request for a zoning variance that would have allowed the new development of the site to rise…

Posted August 4, 2023

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Terminal Diner (demolished), 357 West Street, November 11, 1991

Posted January 4, 2022

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Looking east along W. 10th St. from west of W. 4th St. to the Women’s House of Detention being demolished and Jefferson Market Library (2)

Posted August 9, 2023

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Looking east along W. 10th St. from west of W. 4th St. to the Women’s House of Detention being demolished and Jefferson Market Library

Posted August 9, 2023

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391-401 Sixth Avenue 1967 Landmark Designation Photo, with 1 Christopher St. (l.) and Women’s House of Detention (demolished, r.) in background

Posted June 13, 2023

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585 Washington Street (demolished)

585 Washington Street via Google Streetview….

Posted May 11, 2023

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585 Washington Street, (demolished)

585 Washington Street via Google Streetview….

Posted May 11, 2023

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Waldorf Astoria Roof Garden, 301 Fifth Avenue, 1897 (Demolished)

Posted May 13, 2022

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Hotel Astor, Times Square, 1910 (Demolished)

Posted May 13, 2022

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(r. to l.) 105 – 111 Bank Street with Ninth Ave. El (demolished) Overhead, 1932 (NYPL)

Posted May 13, 2022

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The Short Life of the Banksy Rat on former Greenwich Savings Bank (demolished), NW corner of 14th St. & 6th Ave., March 15, 2018

Posted January 4, 2022

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Prince Theater (demolished), 398 West Street (West 10th & Charles Streets), May 9, 1993

Posted January 4, 2022

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Building Being Demolished or Collapsing in SoHo/Tribeca (exact location unknown)

Posted April 4, 2021

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Munson Diner with neon sign (demolished), 11th Ave. & 49th St., May 7, 2002

Posted January 3, 2022

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El Teddy’s, 219 West Broadway (demolished), August 5, 2000

Posted January 3, 2022

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Lüchow’s Restaurant, 110 East 14th Street, 1993 (demolished for NYU’s University Hall)

Posted January 3, 2022

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1837, ST. THOMAS CHURCH AT HOUSTON AND BROADWAY by Joseph R. Brady and Rev. John McVickar

St. Thomas Church at Houston and Broadway (demolished) by Joseph R. Brady and Rev. John McVickar, 1837

For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….

Posted October 14, 2021

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View on the High Line looking south from Bethune Street through Westbeth (former Bell Telephone Labs) to West Village Houses.jpg

View on the High Line (demolished) looking south from Bethune Street through Westbeth (former Bell Telephone Labs) to West Village Houses

View the full proposal here….

Posted October 13, 2021

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59 Fulton Street, north side between Cliff and Gold Streets; demolished for Southbridge Towers.

Posted June 2, 2020

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Looking north up Greenwich Ave. from Christopher St., c. 1970, women protestors struggle with police outside of Women’s Detention Center (demolished)

For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….

Posted June 16, 2021

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Building with Corinthian Colonette Being Demolished or Collapsing in SoHo/Tribeca (exact location unknown)

Posted April 4, 2021

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Building with Corinthian Colonettes Being Demolished or Collapsing in SoHo/Tribeca (exact location unknown)

Posted April 4, 2021

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The Playpen 2 Adult Theater, 692 Eighth Avenue, west side just south of 44th Street (demolished; now the Intercontinental Hotel and Shake Shack)

Posted June 2, 2020

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High Line Being Demolished – looking west on Perry Street

The crane and wrecking ball is getting into position in the middle of the intersection of Perry and Washington Streets. The building west of the trestle on the right was…

Posted June 2, 2020

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Finan. Dist demo, from north of Water and Fletcher Streets, with 80 Maiden Lane (left, circ windows, extant) & 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza Triangular Building demolished for Louise Nevelson Plaza

Posted June 2, 2020

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S. Klein Department Store being demolished, northeast corner of 14th Street & Union Square East

Posted June 2, 2020

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Greenwich Village piers with the World Trade Center in the distance and elevated Miller (West Side) Highway (demolished)

Taken around West 11th Street, just west of West Street. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973. Included…

Posted June 2, 2020

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Jefferson Theater, 212 E. 14th Street between 2nd & 3rd Aves. Demolished in 2000.

Click here to read about the history of the Jefferson Theater….

Posted June 2, 2020

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High Line Being Demolished – crane with wrecking ball mounted on the trestle

Nick Fritsch reports that the primary method utilized for dismantling the span was to repeatedly raise the ball, and the let it drop all the way to the track bed,…

Posted June 2, 2020

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High Line being demolished – 141 Perry Street in background

Facing east across Washington Street, Nick Fritsch (aged 7) and his older sister Erica, in the foreground in front of cut pieces of the High Line trestle. Their home at…

Posted June 2, 2020

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From 15th Street & Union Square East looking south, with south side of 14th Street between 14th and Broadway visible, and demolished S. Klein’s Department Store

Posted June 2, 2020

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Gold & Beekman Streets southwest corner (buildings demolished)

Posted June 2, 2020

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Loew’s Avenue B Theater, 62-66 Avenue B, southwest corner of 5th Street; demolished in 1968.

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NY Tribune Building, Nassau & Spruce Street, demolished 1966 for 1 Pace Plaza. Was 260 feet tall, built by Richard Morris Hunt, 2nd tallest building in NY when built in 1875.

Posted June 2, 2020

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Penn Station being demolished, 33rd Street & 7th Avenue

Posted June 2, 2020

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S. Klein Department Store being demolished, northeast corner of 14th Street & Union Square East

Posted June 2, 2020

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Crushed and abandoned car along Greenwich Village waterfront, south of pier head house, with elevated Miller (West Side) Highway (demolished) behind

Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973….

Posted June 2, 2020

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Synagogue, 87 Attorney Street, west side north of Delancey Street (demolished in 1988)

Posted June 2, 2020

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East side of Norfolk Street between Broome and Grand Street as seen from Essex Street. Only the synagogue, which suffered a devastating fire in May 2017, was not demolished at this time for Seward Park Urban Renewal.

Posted June 2, 2020

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L-R: 99 & 101 2nd Avenue, west side, south of 6th Street, includes Schacht Appetizing & Block’s Drugs, with the since-demolished rear of Fillmore East 105 2nd Avenue visible at right

Posted June 2, 2020

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Building being demolished where 160 Water Street now stands, at Fletcher Street

Posted June 2, 2020

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820 Washington Street, looking west toward the current site of the Whitney. Demolished to make way for High Line entrance at Gansevoort Street.

Posted June 2, 2020

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Washington Square South between MacDougal Street and Sullivan Street being demolished

Posted June 2, 2020

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Elevated railroad on Greenwich Street (demolished)

Posted June 2, 2020

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Elderly man carrying packages on the NE corner of 6th Avenue and Waverly Place, looking north (Women’s House of Detention [demolished] is visible in rear left)

Posted June 2, 2020

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House on Vandam Street as it is being demolished.

Posted June 1, 2020

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Greenwich Village piers with the World Trade Center in the distance and elevated Miller (West Side) Highway (demolished)

Taken around West 11th Street, just west of West Street. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973. Included…

Posted June 2, 2020

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Jones Diner (demolished) SE corner Great Jones and Lafayette Streets

Posted June 2, 2020

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Crushed and abandoned car along Greenwich Village waterfront, north of pier head house, looking south with World Trade Center and elevated Miller (West Side) Highway (demolished) visible.

Looking back toward the 11th Street pier headhouse, around Bethune Street. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973….

Posted June 2, 2020

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Former Bell Telephone Labs (now Westbeth) including demolished segment of the High Line

11/1/2016 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….

Posted June 2, 2020

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244 to 252 (l. to r.) Water Street, west side just south of Peck Slip (since demolished)

Posted June 2, 2020

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45 Whitehall Street, demolished

Posted June 2, 2020

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Crushed and abandoned car along Greenwich Village waterfront between West 12th (l.) and Bethune Streets, with elevated Miller (West Side) Highway visible and Superior Inks Factory (demolished; now site of the Superior Inks luxury condos) behind it.

For more information on Superior Inks, click here and here. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973….

Posted June 2, 2020

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Myrtle Avenue and Washington Street, Brooklyn, looking east, with elevated subway (since demolished)

Posted June 2, 2020

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Penn Station being demolished, 31st and 7th

Posted June 2, 2020

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Attorney Street & the Lower East Side, north of Delancey Street, as seen from the Williamsburg Bridge; most of the buildings on Attorney Street, including the synagogue, have been demolished

Posted June 2, 2020

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Graffiti, likely one of artist Richard Hambleton’s “Shadowman” figures, Cooper Union Hewitt Building (demolished), corner of 7th Street & Taras Schevchenko Place, looking west towards Cooper Union Foundation Building

Posted June 2, 2020

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Ninth Avenue Elevated Rail (demolished), looking north along Ninth Avenue at the corner of West 13th Street, 1915

For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….

Posted June 2, 2020

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Looking north up West Street from Bethune Street with Superior Inks Factory (demolished)

7/12/2016 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….

Posted June 2, 2020

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Jay’s restaurant on Whitehall Street and Peter Minuit Plaza (South Street); demolished 1960s

Posted June 2, 2020

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Cooper Square at East 7th Street, looking northwest, with (l. to r.) 56-62 Cooper Square (Carl Fischer Building), 22-34 Fourth Avenue (now demolished), 770 Broadway, and Cooper Union Foundation Building

For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….

Posted June 2, 2020

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Loew’s Avenue B Theater, 62-66 Avenue B, southwest corner of 5th Street, demolished 1968 (3)

Visit our blog for more information about this and other lost theaters of the East Village…

Posted June 2, 2020

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841 and 853 Broadway (l. to r.) on the left; 860 Broadway, 31 East 17th Street, 33 East 17th Street, and 200 Park Avenue South (l. to r.) in the back; 856-860 Broadway on the right (r. to l.) (now demolished)

For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….

Posted June 2, 2020

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Ghost image of demolished building. L-R: 417, 419, 421, 423, 425, & 429 Broome Street, south side, west of Crosby Street

Posted June 2, 2020

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S. Klein Department Store being demolished, northeast corner of 14th Street & Union Square East

Posted June 2, 2020

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S. Klein Department Store being demolished, southeast corner of 15th Street & Union Square East, with Union Square Bank visible

Posted June 2, 2020

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Loew’s Avenue B Theater, 62-66 Avenue B, southwest corner of 5th Street, demolished 1968 (2)

Visit our blog for more information about this and other lost theaters of the East Village…

Posted June 2, 2020

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Loew’s Avenue B Theater, 62-66 Avenue B, southwest corner of 5th Street, demolished 1968 (1)

Visit our blog for more information about this and other lost theaters of the East Village…

Posted June 2, 2020

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Homeless man on bench on south side of Washington Square Park, with NYU Loeb Student Center (demolished) behind on south side of Washington Square South, between LaGuardia & Thompson Streets

Posted June 2, 2020

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From 3rd Avenue between 9th and Stuyvesant, looking southeast. 29 Third Avenue (demolished; now Cooper Union dorm) at lower left, 23 3rd Avenue at lower right, and dome of St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in center

Posted June 2, 2020

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Bocce Court at First Park, Houston Street west of 1st Avenue, looking northeast to (L-R) 12 1st Avenue, 78 East 1st Street (buildings further east since demolished, replaced by 92-96 East 1st Street)

Posted June 2, 2020

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Edward LaGrassa’s Cast Iron Architecture of SoHo, Tribeca, and Beyond

…even as dozens were being demolished in Lower Manhattan for the Washington Street Urban Renewal project, and more demolitions were planned and contemplated. SoHo, with the largest concentration of cast…

Posted April 12, 2021

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Ghost of former 1830 house at 22 Bond Street

This house had been demolished by 1940 and replaced with the two story industrial building visible in the bottom of the image, which was demolished in the early 2000s. The…

Posted April 12, 2023

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Coogan Building, 776 6th Ave at 26th Street with Empire State Building behind

Demolished 2000 (see http://nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON019.htm)…

Posted June 2, 2020

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181 Sullivan Street

This ca. 1834 rowhouse housed the Sullivan Street Playhouse, where ‘The Fantasticks,’ the longest running play in history, was performed. Over Village Preservation’s objections, the building was demolished in the…

Posted April 12, 2023

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35 Cooper Square

…campaign for landmark designation of this ca. 1825 house, the oldest survivor on Cooper Square. Unfortunately, over our protests, it was demolished in 2011. 35 Cooper Square via Google Streetview….

Posted April 12, 2023

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288 Hudson Street, outline

Shows the outline of a long-ago demolished early Federal style house, likely built in 1820 along with the surviving neighbor at 284 Hudson Street. The site has still not been…

Posted April 12, 2023

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48-50 Henry Street

By the time these pictures had been taken, the ca. 1832 federal houses previously located on this site had been demolished. View of the houses pre-demolition ca. 1980 from NYC…

Posted March 31, 2023

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View northeast from High Line between 13th and Little West 12th Street looking towards the Empire State Building.jpg

The High Line in 1979 — Noah Greenberg’s “Manhattan Promenade” Proposal

…of the streets affording unique views of the Hudson River and the streets of Manhattan. The first section of the line south of Westbeth (Bethune Street) had already been demolished,…

Posted October 13, 2021

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Carole Teller’s Changing New York

…of being demolished, like Penn Station or tenements being cleared for urban renewal. In other cases they were fading painted signs growing fainter by the day. But often these were…

Posted June 1, 2020

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Rear of St. Paul’s (1766) Cemetery at Church and Fulton Street, looking southwest across the street

Visible in the background are the Hudson Terminal Buildings at 30-50 Church Street, which were demolished to make way for the World Trade Center and are approximately where the Santiago…

Posted June 2, 2020

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Variety Theater, 110-112 Third Avenue

Built in 1897, the Variety Theater served as a nickelodeon starting in 1914, and was believed to be New York’s last surviving former nickelodeon house when it was demolished in…

Posted June 2, 2020

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Carole Teller’s Changing New York, Part 5

…of being demolished, like Penn Station or tenements being cleared for urban renewal. In other cases, they were fading painted signs growing fainter by the day. But often these were…

Posted June 1, 2020

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Carole Teller’s Changing New York, Part 4

…of being demolished, like Penn Station or tenements being cleared for urban renewal. In other cases, they were fading painted signs growing fainter by the day. But often these were…

Posted June 1, 2020

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Carole Teller’s Changing New York, Part 3

…of being demolished, like Penn Station or tenements being cleared for urban renewal. In other cases, they were fading painted signs growing fainter by the day. But often these were…

Posted June 1, 2020

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Carole Teller’s Changing New York, Part 2

…of being demolished, like Penn Station or tenements being cleared for urban renewal. In other cases, they were fading painted signs growing fainter by the day. But often these were…

Posted June 1, 2020

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Tunnel Garage

…the City refused, and it was demolished in 2006. Click here to read about the history of the Tunnel Garage. These photos were taken by GVSHP prior to the Tunnel…

Posted June 1, 2020

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(l. to r.) 131 MacDougal Street, Provincetown Playhouse at 133 MacDougal Street, 39 1/2 Washington Sq. So.

…NYU demolished with the city’s permission the Provincetown Playhouse in 2008, in spite of it being determined eligible for the State and National Registers of Historic Places. 131 MacDougal Street…

Posted April 12, 2023

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