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This image shows the Ninth Avenue El, NYC’s first elevated train line, being dismantled c. 1940. For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this…
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Read More…taken by Carole Teller before the theater was demolished in 1968. The corner of Avenue B and East 5th Street today, where the Loew’s Avenue B Theater once stood. Image…
Read More(l to r.) 82 and 84 Fourth Avenue, Grace Church, Grace Church Rectory, 92-98 Fourth Avenue (Grace Church Houses), and 100 and 102 Fourth Avenue. For more information on the…
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Read More…and to hold responsible parties accountable. Bracing has been installed for 12 Fifth Avenue to stabilize the building on what was to be the construction site for a 213-ft.-tall tower…
Read More…of Fifth Avenue’s development, Fifth Avenue Old and New 1824-1924. It was published by the Fifth Avenue Association, an organization that was formed in 1907 by residents, property owners, and…
Read More…the earliest mansions to be built along the avenue was 24 Fifth Avenue, designed by A.J. Davis for Henry Brevoort Jr., in 1834. It epitomizes early Fifth Avenue’s status as…
Read More…Avenue). Samuel Weiser Bookstore, 117 Fourth Avenue 113-119 Fourth Avenue, 2018 Samuel Weiser began his career in bookselling as an apprentice at the bookstore Bentano’s. In the 1920s he began…
Read More…cases of buildings being damaged or destroyed by construction work, they were implementing reforms to address gaps in the system and prevent destruction of vulnerable buildings. In fact, we have…
Read More…Thus, Fifth Avenue became the only avenue in Manhattan to never see streetcar or elevated rail service. Horse-drawn bus along Fifth Avenue Another quirk of the system was that its…
Read More…posts. Flemish Bond brickwork Before giving away too much, we’ll start the series by allowing you to observe the building in the same way we first did: from the outside….
Read More…deviation between the fourth floors of 138 Second Avenue and 140-142 Second Avenue is because those full floors were added to the buildings later, in the case of No. 138,…
Read MoreWhen it first opened in 1936, the Second Avenue station was supposed to become a hub for the subway system. Today, the station, located at Houston street and Second Avenue,…
Read More…Avenue began at West 3rd Street). It stopped at the Bleecker Street and West Broadway (now LaGuardia Place) intersection, then at West 8th Street and Sixth Avenue, and finally at…
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Read More(l. to r.) 99-103 Third Avenue and 97 Third Avenue. All of these five-story old-law tenements were built in 1881 by architect Henry J. Dudley for Samuel Simmons. Nos. 99-103…
Read More…(served presently by the 1, 2 and 3 trains) south of 42 Street. This expansion had also become more necessary as Pennsylvania Station, located between 7th and 8th Avenues between…
Read More…Broadway. Source: NY Metro Victorian Society of America. https://www.vicsocny.org/castironnyc/popup.php?id=27 422 West Broadway or 130 South Fifth Avenue. Source: https://www.mountainsoftravelphotos.com/USA%20-%20New%20York%20City/27%20SoHo/slides/27%20422%20W%20Broadway%20Has%20Its%20Original%20Street%20Address%20On%20The%20Cast-iron%20Columns%20-%20It%20Used%20To%20Be%20130%20South%20Fifth%20Avenue%20In%20SoHo%20New%20York%20City.jpg In 1896 South Fifth Avenue became part of West Broadway again,…
Read More…it to testimony@lpc.nyc.gov by 12:00 noon on the Monday before the hearing. On the Friday afternoon before the hearing, the LPC schedule for the hearing date with approximate hearing time…
Read More…Fifth Avenue already had but to create an even more beautiful streetscape began to gain steam when he appointed the Fifth Avenue Commission. 72, 74-76, 78, 80 Fifth Avenue (r….
Read More…the hearing, send it to testimony@lpc.nyc.gov by 12:00 noon on the Monday before the hearing. On the Friday afternoon before the hearing, the LPC schedule for the hearing date with…
Read More…buildings in New York.” It was landmarked on July 22, 1975. Both were built at the turn of the last century. And both also bear strong connections to Greenwich Village…
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Read More…applicable, LPC public meeting dates for this application will also be tracked here. Please note that public testimony is taken at public hearings, but not at public meetings. Please note:…
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12/04/2018 LPC hearing date. For more information regarding this application, click here….
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The four-story building in the center, five buildings from the right, is the old PS 41, demolished in the 1950s to make way for the new PS 41 and its…
Posted September 14, 2020
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3/7/2017 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here. Also included in 4/23/2013 application, here….
Posted June 2, 2020
Read More…require a public hearing before they can be approved. These proposals range from minor alterations to large additions, demolition, and new construction on landmarked sites. Find out about the application,…
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Read More…applicable, LPC public meeting dates for this application will also be tracked here. Please note that public testimony is taken at public hearings, but not at public meetings. Please note:…
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Read More…around New York City. For nearly 50 years the building was home to the Riviera, a restaurant and sports bar considered by many to be a neighborhood institution. Seventh Avenue…
Read More…to have twenty-four branches and three thousand members, the organization needed more space, bringing them to 70 Fifth Avenue, a newly-constructed commercial building at 13th Street just below Union Square….
Read More…Looking South on Sixth Avenue at Bleecker Street and beyond Only a few buildings are recognizable in the photo below, taken from Houston Street looking south on Sixth Avenue. The…
Read More…American historic sites in New York, we typically think of Harlem’s Apollo Theater, Lower Manhattan’s African Burial Ground, or Brooklyn’s Weeksville Houses. But one building that should perhaps join the…
Read More…old (but less intact) one-story buildings at Nos. 25 and 27 Third Avenue. Currently these three historic buildings are slated to be demolished and replaced by a “boutique office building”….
Read More…York. It was built by Henry Brevoort Jr., scion of the Brevoort family which owned much of the land and built many of the buildings in this part of Manhattan….
Read More“Becoming Fifth Avenue” is a series of posts in celebration of the bicentennial of the avenue, which was first laid out in 1824. The first segment, in Greenwich Village between…
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