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More than a Building: The Settlement House as Cooperative Structure

October 10, 2023
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Tag: Israels & Harder

Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: The Hammacher Schlemmer & Co. Building

Part of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t landmarked. … Continued

Posted March 2, 2020

By Louisa Winchell

Groundbreaking Gadgets on 4th Avenue

The following post was originally written five years ago to showcase one of our neighborhood buildings with an interesting history, 133 Fourth Avenue. From 1904-1926 this 1897 building on the … Continued

Posted September 6, 2016

By Sam Moskowitz

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