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Local Landmark: Tompkins Square Library

Note: This is an updated version of a post originally written by Drew Durniak  Since it opened on December 1, 1904, the Tompkins Square Branch of the New York Public Library has served as an important community resource.  Situated on East 10th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B, the building itself was designated an […]

    McKim, Mead & White on Avenue D

      Here’s an unassuming building with some interesting connections to one of our country’s premiere architectural firms — McKim, Mead & White. Meet 119 Avenue D, which at first glance may be mistaken for an old tenement building, but was actually built as a factory in 1883. Though the facade has been altered over the […]

      Looking Up: The Cable Building

      This is part of the Looking Up series of posts, which explore the unique architectural and historical stories that can be discovered when we raise our gaze above the sidewalk, the storefront, and the second floor. Above the display windows of Crate & Barrel, and the crowded Broadway and Houston Street sidewalks, is a facade […]

      The Hottest Spot on Tompkins Square in 1904

      Tompkins Square Library opened at 331 E. 10th Street, on the northern edge of Tompkins Square Park, on December 1, 1904. Like many of the New York Carnegie libraries,  it is a handsome McKim, Mead and White building (designated as an individual landmark in 1999) that looks almost exactly today as it did then.  It […]

      On Tompkins Square

      Since it opened in 1904, the Tompkins Square Branch of the New York Public Library has served as an important community resource.