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One Broadway

February 20, 2015Manhattan1 Broadway, 1887, 1921, commercial, Edward Hale Kendall, historic, landmark, lower manhattan, Manhattan, neo-Classical, New York City, Walter B. Chambers, Washington Building.

One Broadway is a building within a building: Strip away the 1921 Neo-Classical white limestone skin and you’ll find a red brick and brownstone Queen Anne-style structure built in 1887.

(For a rare look at the “before,” take a look at Archiseek‘s article.)

Also beneath the facade, you’ll find layers of history – condensed here from the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission report:

The 1887 building, built on the site of a home reputedly used by General Washington, was named the Washington Building. It was built for Cyrus W. Field, whose Atlantic Telegraph Company laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The architect, Edward H. Kendall, also designed the Gorham Mfg. Building and the Methodist Book Concern.

J.P. Morgan’s International Mercantile Marine Company (IMMC) bought the building in 1919; Walter B. Chambers re-designed the structure inside and out. With competitor Cunard Line just a few doors up Broadway, the International Mercantile Marine Company Building became the anchor for “Steamship Row.” IMMC operated numerous subsidiaries, including Titanic‘s White Star Line. By 1940 internal mergers reduced the company to United States Lines, which took over the building from 1941 to 1979. Allstate Life Insurance Co. bought the building at a foreclosure sale in 1992 and financed a $2 million restoration in 1993-1994.

The building is now occupied by a branch of Citibank and Kenyon & Kenyon LLP – an intellectual property law firm.

One Broadway Vital Statistics

Location: One Broadway at Battery Place
Year completed: 1887; reclad, 1921
Architect: Edward Hale Kendall; Walter B. Chambers (remodeling)
Floors: 12
Style: Neo-Classical
New York City Landmark: 1995
National Register of Historic Places: 1991

One Broadway Recommended Reading

Wikipedia entry
Wikipedia entry (International Mercantile Marine Company Building)
NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report
The New York Times Streetscapes/1 Broadway; A 1922 Facade That Hides Another From the 1880’s (March 26, 1995)
Daytonian in Manhattan blog
Archiseek 1882 – The Washington Building, New York
Scouting New York One Broadway (April 6, 2009)
Lookze Washington Building

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Lefcourt Colonial Building

February 20, 2015Manhattan1930, 295 Madison Avenue, Bark & Djorup, Charles F. Moyer Co., commercial, Manhattan, midtown, neo-gothic, New York City.

Lefcourt Colonial Building was among the last buildings developed by Abraham Lefcourt, one of New York’s “rags to riches to rags” stories.

Now known as 295 Madison Avenue, the 45-story Neo-Gothic tower is an architectural landmark without the official title. The distinctive blue terra cotta medallions and gilded finials are visible from most of midtown. The street level retail space and lobby have been thoroughly modernized, but above that, the six-story base is richly decorated with terra cotta, false balustrades and layered brickwork.

Lefcourt Colonial was auctioned off in foreclosure just two years after it was completed, as the Great Depression demolished Abraham Lefcourt’s real estate and banking empire. And the day after the Lefcourt Colonial was sold – for $3.5 million – the Sevilla Towers faced the same fate. Sevilla Towers was the Lefcourt-built apartment hotel, completed but not yet opened, now known as the Essex House.

Lefcourt Colonial has something in common with the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building and Statue of Liberty: You can buy a cast replica of the structure!

Lefcourt Colonial Building Vital Statistics

Location: 295 Madison Avenue at E 41st Street
Year completed: 1930
Architect: Charles F. Moyer Co., Bark & Djorup
Floors: 45
Style: Neo-Gothic

Lefcourt Colonial Building Recommended Reading

NewYorkitecture: Lefcourt Buildings
Wikipedia entry
The New York Times Buildings With Bows (October 23, 2005)
The New York Times Streetscapes | Madison Avenue, from 38th to 41st Street | When Office Casual Was Unthinkable (February 6, 2009)
The New York Times THIRTY-ONE COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS ERECTED BY A.E. LEFCOURT IN TWO DECADES (May 18, 1930)
The New York Times SKYSCRAPER SOLD ON $3,500,000 BID; Plaintiffs in Foreclosure Action Get Lefcourt-Colonial Building on Madison Avenue (February 7, 1931)
Emporis database
Replica Buildings: Lefcourt Colonial

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Socony-Mobil Building

February 20, 2015Manhattan150 E 42nd Street, 1956, commercial, Harrison & Abramovitz, historic, John B. Peterkin, landmark, Manhattan, midtown, New York City, postmodern.

Socony-Mobil Building, aka 150 E 42nd Street, is another piece of New York City “love-it or hate-it” architecture. Landmarked in 2003 as an “impressive skyscraper” with “dramatic stainless steel arches,” it is also on some critics’ “ugliest buildings” list.

The original design, by John B. Peterkin, was a 30-story brick tower rising from a garden atop a three-story granite base. The developer, Galbreath Corporation, was unable to attract prime tenants, so in 1952 new architectural muscle was called in: Harrison & Abramovitz. Principals at that firm had worked with Galbreath on other projects and, incidentally, with the Rockefeller family during construction of New York icons Rockefeller Center and the United Nations.

The Harrison & Abramovitz-revised plan was for a 42-story tower with 13-story wings, clad in stainless steel. The firm was a pioneer in metal-clad architecture, earlier completing the Alcoa Building in Pittsburgh. Aluminum was considerably cheaper than stainless steel, but the steel industry agreed to match aluminum’s price for the opportunity to promote their product.

Why metal at all? Partly marketing – to give the building a modern identity. Partly structural – like glass, metal is lighter and thinner (leaves more rentable floor space) than masonry. Partly speed – metal panels go up faster than brick.

The 7,000 steel panels were embossed with four patterns (selected from more than 100): a rosette-like motif for above and below the windows; a large and small rosette to flank the windows, and two variants displaying a design of interlocking pyramids. These last panels are less wide and appear at the eighth floor where the ceiling is higher, or at the corners of the side elevations.

These controversial patterns were explained as necessary to stiffen the panels, diminish reflections, and create a self-cleaning surface (via wind and rain). The New Yorker‘s architecture critic, Lewis Mumford, called the design a “disaster” and said that the elevations looked as if they were “coming down with measles.”

The “self-cleaning” aspect wasn’t entirely accurate – the building was scrubbed with detergent in 1995.

The building’s four-story blue glass base, not nearly as controversial, is no less striking. The E 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue facades feature massive shallow eyebrow arches of stainless steel, resting on granite piers.

One wonders: Did the architects realize how well the Socony-Mobil Building frames the stainless steel spire of the Chrysler Building across the street? It’s a spectacular photo op!

Trivia: According to the building’s website, elevators to the top floors operate at 1,200 feet per minute, while elevators in the lowest floors operate at only 500 feet per minute.

Socony-Mobil Building Vital Statistics

Location: 150 E 42nd Street between Lexington Avenue and Third Avenue (full block though to E 41st Street)
Year completed: 1956
Architect: John B. Peterkin; Harrison & Abramovitz
Floors: 42
Style: Postmodern
New York City Landmark: 2003

Socony-Mobil Building Recommended Reading

Wikipedia entry (Harrison & Abramovitz, architects)
NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report
The New York Times Streetscapes: Socony-Mobil Building; A Building of Steel On East 42d Street (October 8, 1995)
The New York Times POSTINGS: The Socony-Mobil Building on 42nd Street; A Landmark, Measles and All (March 2, 2003)
The New York Observer Community Boards (October 21, 2002)
Nickel Development Institute: Timeless Stainless Architecture (pdf brochure)
Emporis database
150 E 42nd Street website

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Croisic Building

February 20, 2015Manhattan1912, 220 Fifth Avenue, commercial, Frederick C. Brown, historic, landmark, neo-gothic, New York City.

Croisic Building, aka 220 Fifth Avenue, is picturesque Gothic-styled architecture visible for blocks because of its two-story copper mansard roof. On closer inspection, the terra cotta gargoyles, eagles and other decoration are equally impressive.

The Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership “Discover Flatiron” brochure claims that actress Ethel Barrymore resided at Croisic Building. That seems unlikely, because the building was always a commercial office building. However, some sources say the site was previously occupied by a Croisic apartment hotel, where she might have stayed (her Broadway debut was in 1895, before the current Croisic Building was erected). Other sources note that actor Richard Mansfield lived at the hotel.

Currently, Croisic Building seems to host a colony of architects – if you Google the address, the first pages are dominated by architect listings.

Trivia: According to New York Songlines, Croisic Building is across the street from the nonexistent 221 Fifth Avenue, home of Napoleon Solo, Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Croisic Building Vital Statistics

Location: 220 Fifth Avenue at W 26th Street
Year completed: 1912
Architect: Frederick C. Browne
Floors: 22
Style: Neo-Gothic
New York City Landmark: 2001

Croisic Building Recommended Reading

NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report (Madison Square North)
The New York Times Streetscapes/Readers’ Questions; A Town House on E. 74th, Fleurs-de-Lis on W. 26th (February 1, 2004)
The Brickbuilder The Croisic Building, New York City (1913)
Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership Discover Flatiron Walking Tour (pdf)
New York Songlines Fifth Avenue
Gargoyles of New York Croisic Building

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Cass Gilbert

February 20, 2015Architecturearchitect, architecture, Cass Gilbert, New York City.

Cass Gilbert (1859-1934) designed seven New York City landmarks between 1900 and 1934, among dozens of his notable works of architecture across the U.S.

← 1907 photo in Minnesota Encyclopedia (source: Wikipedia)

While best known to New Yorkers for the Woolworth Building, Gilbert also designed the Capitols of Minnesota, Arkansas and West Virginia, and the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

Born in Ohio, Gilbert rose to prominence in Minnesota when he was selected to design the new State Capitol in St. Paul. His Brazer Building in Boston led to a commission to his first New York commission, the Broadway Chambers Building. During that building’s construction, Gilbert moved to New York.

(Don’t confuse Cass Gilbert with his son – Cass Gilbert, Jr. – or with C.P.H. Gilbert. Cass Gilbert, Jr. supervised completion of the Thurgood Marshall US Courthouse that his father designed before he died. C.P.H. [Charles Pierrepont Henry] Gilbert is best known for mansions and townhouses.) Trivia: Cass and C.P.H. do have a connection, via Frank W. Woolworth: Woolworth hired Cass to design the Woolworth Building, but hired C.P.H. to design his personal mansion.

Cass Gilbert Representative Buildings

Broadway Chambers Building (1900)
90 West Street Building (1907)
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House (1907)
Woolworth Building (1913)
Brooklyn Army Terminal (1918)
New York Life Building (1926)
Cass Gilbert condominiums (1927)
New York County Lawyer’s Association Building (1934)
Thurgood Marshall US Courthouse (1936)

Cass Gilbert Suggested Reading

Wikipedia entry
Cass Gilbert Society
NYU guide to New York Historical Society Cass Gilbert Collection
Architectural Digest: Cass Gilbert (February, 2001)
The New York Times Critic’s Notebook; Cass Gilbert And the City Eclectic (Oct 9, 1998)

Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House

February 20, 2015Manhattan1907, beaux arts, Bowling Green, Cass Gilbert, civic, historic, landmark, lower manhattan, Manhattan, New York City.

Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House is one of New York City’s most important landmarks, both for its history and for its architecture.

Historically, this is the site of New York’s first Custom House; the first building burned down. The choice of architect was the first major use of the 1893 Tarnsey Act, which allowed private architects to design public buildings. Cass Gilbert won the commission, after heated (and controversial) competition. The United States Custom House also served as a test of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission: In 1965 the then-new agency was designating a federal building as a city landmark, and the regional administrator for the General Services Administration (GSA) argued that the city had no authority to regulate federal property. (Nonetheless, the city returned in 1979 to declare the interior as a landmark!)

The building was hugely important to the nation: Import duties charged here and at other ports financed the government, in the days before an income tax. The Customs Service moved to the World Trade Center in 1971. The building was empty for a decade, and slated for demolition until Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D, NY) sponsored a bill to restore the Custom House. Additional legislation required the GSA to find new uses for unused federal buildings (they needed a law to figure that out?). Now, the building is shared by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the National Archives, and the National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution).

You can’t tell it from these photos, but the Custom House is actually trapezoidal: The back of the building is wider than the front.

Cass Gilbert’s Beaux Arts design is filled with symbolism and references to classical architecture. The four monumental sculptures in front of the building, sculpted by Daniel Chester French, represent the continents Asia, Africa, America, and Europe. Statues representing 12 seafaring nations stand above the front facade’s columns; the Corinthian capitals of the columns include the head of Mercury (representing commerce); second-story windows are topped by heads representing the “eight races of mankind.”

How did Belgium wind up among the top 12 seafaring nations? According to “Secret New York, An Unusual Guide,” the statue was originally Germany, but ordered changed after the outbreak of World War I.

Interior details are equally rich (and also designated a New York City Landmark). New York artist Reginald Marsh painted the murals in the second floor rotunda, as part of a Treasury Relief Art Project (an offspring of the W.P.A.) in 1937.

(The GSA has an extensive photo gallery showing interior details.)

Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House Vital Statistics

Location: Bowling Green
Year completed: 1907
Architect: Cass Gilbert
Floors: 7
Style: Beaux Arts
New York City Landmark: 1965, 1979
National Register of Historic Places: 1972

Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House Recommended Reading

Wikipedia entry
NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report (exterior)
NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report (interior)
U.S. General Services Administration: Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, NY
The New York Times Critic’s Notebook; Cass Gilbert And the City Eclectic (October 9, 1998)
Cass Gilbert Society: U.S. Custom House
Daytonian in Manhattan blog
World Ship Society: Ocean Liner Murals in the Alexander Hamilton Custom House Bowling Green at the Foot of Broadway

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C.P.H. Gilbert

February 20, 2015Architecturearchitect, architecture, C.P.H. Gilbert, historic, New York City.

230px-C_P_H_Gilbert C.P.H. Gilbert (1861-1952), is best known for his lavish mansion and townhouse architecture for New York’s wealthiest citizens. Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert, a native New Yorker, studied engineering and architecture in the U.S. and abroad, including at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Gilbert initially designed buildings in Colorado and Arizona, but returned to New York in 1885.

(portrait photo source: Wikipedia)

C.P.H. Gilbert designed more than 100 mansions in Brooklyn and Manhattan, several of which are designated New York City landmarks. A few of his Fifth Avenue mansions have been converted to institutional use – notably the Ukrainian Institute (former Harry F. Sinclair House) and the Jewish Museum (former Felix M. Warburg House).

Don’t confuse C.P.H. Gilbert with Cass Gilbert. Cass Gilbert is best known for monumental commercial and civic architecture. Trivia: Cass and C.P.H. do have a connection, via Frank W. Woolworth: Woolworth hired Cass to design the Woolworth Building, but hired C.P.H. to design his personal mansion.

C.P.H. Gilbert Representative Buildings

Three adjoining mansions at the foot of Riverside Drive: 311 West 72nd Street, 1 Riverside Drive and 3 Riverside Drive for Philip Kleeberg (mid-1890s)
Ukrainian Institute (former Harry F. Sinclair House) (1899)
Cushman Building, Broadway and Maiden Lane (1899)
Edmund C. Converse residence, 3 East 78th Street (1900)
Polish Consulate General, Madison Avenue and 37th Street (former Joseph Raphael De Lamar House) (1905)
Jewish Museum, 92nd Street and Fifth Avenue (former Felix M. Warburg House) (1908)
Convent of the Sacred Heart, 91st Street and Fifth Avenue, with architect J. Armstrong Stenhouse (former Otto H. Kahn House) (1918)

C.P.H. Gilbert Suggested Reading

Wikipedia entry
The New York Times Streetscapes/Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert; A Designer of Lacy Mansions for the City’s Eminent
The New York Times Streetscapes | Brooklyn | C. P. H. Gilbert: The Wild Years
Daytonian in Manhattan blog
Beyond the Gilded Age blog
Big Old Houses blog

Helmut Jahn

February 20, 2015Architecturearchitect, architecture, Helmut Jahn, New York City.

The bright cobalt conical crown commands attention from blocks away, but can't be seen from across the street.

Park Avenue Tower's pyramid crown is only visible from a distance.

Helmut Jahn (1940 – ) is a German-born, Chicago-based architect of international renown, with five colorfully distinctive New York towers (and one mid-rise) under his belt. The proposed but not built Television City would have been a record-breaker on behalf of The Donald (Trump). A new Jahn-designed tower – 50 West Street – is now underway.

After emigrating to the U.S., Jahn studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology under famed Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He joined the firm of C.F. Murphy Associates in 1967. The roof of Jahn’s first major project, Kemper Arena (1974), collapsed in 1979. But his practice hardly skipped a beat: Eight major projects filled the years 1980-1986. In 1987-1989 he exploded on the New York scene with six projects: Office towers 425 Lexington Avenue, City Spire, International Plaza, and Park Avenue Tower, plus America Apartments. A smaller project – the 12-story Metropolitan Transportation Authority Building located in Brooklyn – was completed in 1989.

Jahn also designed Donald Trump’s proposed 150-story Television City.

After nearly 30 years’ absence, Jahn design is again under construction in New York. The long-dormant 50 West Street project, a 63-story mixed-use tower, is slated for 2016 completion.

Helmut Jahn New York Buildings

425 Lexington Avenue (1987)
City Spire (1987)
International Plaza (1987)
Park Avenue Tower (1987)
America Apartments (1987)
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Building (1989)
50 West Street (2016)

Helmut Jahn Suggested Reading

Wikipedia entry
ArchDaily blog
GreatBuildings.com architects
The New York Times ARCHITECT PUTS HIS MARK ON SKYLINE (September 8, 1986)
The New York Times TRUMP ANNOUNCES PLAN TO CONSTRUCT WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDING (November 19, 1985)
New York YIMBY blog Construction Update: 50 West Street (October 22, 2013)

De Lamar Mansion

February 20, 2015Manhattan1905, 233 Madison Avenue, beaux arts, C.P.H. Gilbert, De Lamar Mansion, historic, landmark, Manhattan, midtown, New York City, Polish Consulate.

The De Lamar Mansion (Joseph Raphael De Lamar House), now the Polish Consulate General in New York, is a prime example of Beaux Arts architecture in New York.

C.P.H. Gilbert designed this for Joseph De Lamar, who struck it rich in the Colorado Gold Rush and wanted a home fit to enter New York’s high society. Besides towering over neighboring mansions (such as J.P. Morgan’s home across the street), the De Lamar mansion had the unheard-of luxury of an underground garage, served by electric hoist. [See Daytonian in Manhattan]

Joseph and his 10-year-old daughter Alice – he was divorced – lived in the palatial home with nine servants.

After Joseph died in 1918, Alice moved out and sold the mansion to the American Bible Society, which later sold it to the National Democratic Club. Much later (1973), the Republic of Poland bought the mansion to house its consulate.

De Lamar Mansion Vital Statistics

Location: 233 Madison Avenue at E 37th Street
Year completed: 1905
Architect: C.P.H. Gilbert
Floors: 5
Style: Beaux Arts
New York City Landmark: 1975
National Register of Historic Places: 1983

De Lamar Mansion Recommended Reading

Wikipedia entry
NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report
The New York Times Streetscapes | De Lamar Mansion | Still an Eye-Popper After All These Years (December 12, 2008)
Daytonian in Manhattan blog
New York City Statues listing

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January Landmarks

February 20, 2015Guidesarchitecture, historic, landmark, New York City.

These NYC landmarks celebrate their Landmarks Preservation Commission designation anniversaries in January

Types: I=Individual; S=Scenic; HD=Historic District

Type	Borough	Day	Year	Landmark	Built	Architect(s)	Style	Link
HD	M	3	1984	West End Collegiate Historic District				[pdf]
I	M	5	1988	Ed Sullivan Theater (Originally Hammerstein’s Theater), first floor interior	1927	Herbert J. Krapp	Gothic	[pdf]
I	M	5	1988	Winter Garden Theater, first floor interior	1885	W. Albert Swasey; Herbert J. Krapp; Francesca Russo	N/A	[pdf]
I	M	5	1993	Mount Morris Bank Building (Later the Corn Exchange Bank, Mount Morris Branch)	1883	Lamb & Rich, Frank A. Rooke	Romanesque Revival	[pdf]
I	M	5	1993	Washington Apartments	1883	Mortimer C. Merritt	Queen Anne	[pdf]
I	M	5	1993	(Former) Century Association Building	1869	Gambrill & Richardson	neo-Grec	[pdf]
I	M	8	1991	The Diller Residence	1899	Gilbert A. Schellenger	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	M	8	1991	The Kleeberg Residence	1896	C.P.H. Gilbert	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	M	8	1991	The Prentiss Residence	1899	C.P.H. Gilbert	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	M	8	1991	The Sutphen Residence	1901	C.P.H. Gilbert	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	Q	8	1991	Flushing High School	1912	C.B.J. Snyder	Gothic	[pdf]
I	BX	8	2002	Begrisch Hall at Bronx Community College	1956	Marcel Breuer & Associates	Postmodern	[pdf]
I	B	9	1979	Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church Parsonage	1853	UNKNOWN	Greek Revival	[pdf]
I	M	9	1979	United States Custom House (interior)	1907	Cass Gilbert	Beaux Arts	[pdf]
I	B	10	1978	Public School 111	1867	Samuel B. Leonard, James W. Naughton	Romanesque Revival	[pdf]
I	BX	10	1978	Bartow-Pell Mansion, Expanded Landmark Site	1842	UNKNOWN	Greek Revival	[pdf]
I	BX	10	1978	Public School 15	1877	Simon Williams	N/A	[pdf]
I	M	10	1978	Public School 9 Annex	1895	James W. Naughton	Romanesque Revival	[pdf]
HD	BX	10	2006	Fieldston Historic District				[pdf]
I	BX	11	1967	Christ Church	1866	Richard Upjohn & Son	Victorian Gothic	[pdf]
I	BX	11	1967	Rainey Memorial Gates	1934	Charles A. Platt	Art Deco	[pdf]
I	M	11	1967	America-Israel Cultural Foundation (formerly the William H. Moore House)	1898	McKim, Mead & White	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	M	11	1967	Bouwerie Lane Theatre (originally the Bond Street Savings Bank)	1873	Henry Engelbert, Steven Harris Architects	French Second Empire	[pdf]
I	M	11	1967	Marble Collegiate Reformed Church	1851	Samuel A. Warner	Mixed	[pdf]
I	M	11	1967	New York Public Library	1898	Carrere & Hastings; Davis Brody Bond; WJE Engineers and Architects	Beaux Arts	[pdf]
I	M	11	1967	The Century Association	1889	McKim, Mead & White; Jan Hird Pokorny	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	M	11	1967	The Harvard Club of NYC	1893	McKim, Mead & White; Henry Cobb; Davis Brody Bond	Georgian	[pdf]
I	M	11	1967	The University Club	1897	McKim, Mead & White; Peter Gisolfi Architects	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	M	11	1967	West End Collegiate Church and Collegiate School	1892	Robert W. Gibson	Dutch/Flemish Renaissance	[pdf]
I	B	11	1977	Saint George’s Protestant Episcopal Church	1886	Richard M. Upjohn	Gothic	[pdf]
I	M	11	1977	Barbara Rutherford Hatch Residence	1917	Frederick J. Sterner	Spanish Colonial/Italian Renaissance	[pdf]
I	M	11	1977	Henry T. Sloane Residence	1894	Carrere & Hastings; RBSD Architects	Beaux Arts	[pdf]
I	M	11	1977	Oliver Gould Jennings Residence	1898	Flagg & Chambers; RSBD Architects	Beaux Arts	[pdf]
I	Q	11	1977	Prospect Cemetery	1668	N/A	N/A	[pdf]
I	Q	11	1977	Allen-Beville House	1848	UNKNOWN	Greek Revival	[pdf]
I	B	11	2011	Childs Restaurant Building	1917	John C. Westervelt	Spanish Revival	[pdf]
I	M	11	2011	Haskin & Sells Building	1912	Frederick C. Zobel	Renaissance	[pdf]
I	M	12	1999	Nicholas C. and Agnes Benziger House	1890	William Schickel	Medieval	[pdf]
I	BX	12	2010	(Former) Dollar Savings Bank	1919	Renwick, Aspinwall & Tucker	neo-Classical	[pdf]
I	M	12	2010	311 Broadway Building	1856	UNKNOWN	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	M	12	2010	West Park Presbyterian Church	1883	Leopold Eidlitz; Henry Kilburn; Ludlow & Peabody	Romanesque Revival	[pdf]
I	Q	12	2010	Public School 66 (Formerly the Brooklyn Hills School, Later the Oxford School, Now the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School)	1898	Harry S. Chambers; C.B.J. Snyder	Romanesque, Queen Anne	[pdf]
I	Q	12	2010	Ridgewood Theater Building	1916	Thomas W. Lamb	Beaux Arts	[pdf]
I	S	12	2010	Mary and David Burgher House	1844	UNKNOWN	Greek Revival	[pdf]
I	B	13	1998	New Utrecht Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery	1653	N/A	N/A	[pdf]
I	B	13	1998	New Utrecht Reformed Dutch Church, Expanded Landmark Site, and Parish House	1828	Lawrence B. Volk	Romanesque Revival	[pdf]
I	B	13	1998	(Former) Colored School No. 3	1879	Samuel B. Leonard	Rundbogenstil	[pdf]
I	B	13	2009	Hubbard House	1835	Lawrence Ryder	Dutch Colonial	[pdf]
I	M	13	2009	275 Madison Avenue Building	1930	Kenneth Franzheim	Art Deco	[pdf]
I	M	13	2009	New York Public Library George Bruce Branch	1914	Carrere & Hastings	Georgian Revival	[pdf]
I	M	13	2009	The New York Public Library, 125th Street Branch	1901	McKim, Mead & White	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	S	13	2009	John H. and Elizabeth J. Elsworth House	1880	N/A	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	M	14	1969	The Permanent Mission of Yugoslavia to the United Nations	1903	Warren & Wetmore	Louis XV	[pdf]
HD	M	14	1969	St. Mark’s Historic District	N/A			[pdf]
I	BX	14	1992	MacCombs Dam Bridge (Originally Central Bridge) And 155th Street Viaduct	1890	Alfred Pancoast Boller	N/A	[pdf]
I	M	14	1992	Ahrens Building	1894	George H. Griebel	Romanesque Revival	[pdf]
I	M	14	1992	Broadway Chambers Building	1901	Cass Gilbert	Beaux Arts	[pdf]
I	M	14	1992	Goelet Building (Now Swiss Center Building)	1930	Victor L.S. Hafner	Art Deco/International	[pdf]
I	M	14	1992	Goelet Building (Now Swiss Center Building), first floor interior	1930	Victor L.S. Hafner	Art Deco/International	[pdf]
HD	B	14	1997	Vinegar Hill Historic District				[pdf]
I	M	14	1997	14 Wall Street Building (Formerly Bankers Trust Building)	1910	Trowbridge & Livingston; Shreve, Lamb & Harmon	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	B	17	1968	Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead	1766	UNKNOWN	Dutch Colonial	[pdf]
I	S	17	1968	Sleight Family Graveyard (Rossville (Blazing Star) Burial Ground)	1750	N/A	N/A	[pdf]
I	S	17	1968	Staten Island Lighthouse	1912	UNKNOWN	N/A	[pdf]
I	M	18	1966	263 Henry Street Building (A Part of the Henry Street Settlement House)	1827	UNKNOWN	Federal	[pdf]
I	M	18	1966	265 Henry Street Building (A Part of the Henry Street Settlement House)	1827	UNKNOWN	Federal	[pdf]
I	M	18	1966	267 Henry Street Building (A Part of the Henry Street Settlement House)	1834	UNKNOWN	Federal	[pdf]
I	M	18	1966	Sea and Land Church	1817	UNKNOWN	Georgian	[pdf]
I	M	18	1966	St. James Church	1837	Minard Lafever	Greek Revival	[pdf]
I	M	18	1966	Chamber of Commerce Building	1901	James B. Baker	Beaux Arts	[pdf]
I	M	18	1966	Fire House, Engine Company 31	1895	Napoleon LeBrun & Sons	French Renaissance	[pdf]
I	M	24	1967	Abigail Adams Smith House (Headquarters of the Colonial Dames of America)	1799	UNKNOWN	Federal	[pdf]
I	M	24	1967	116 East 80th Street House (formerly the Lewis Spencer Morris House)	1922	Cross & Cross	Federal Revival	[pdf]
I	M	24	1967	Church of Notre Dame	1909	Dans & Otto; Cross & Cross	Greek Revival	[pdf]
I	M	24	1967	Clarence Dillon House	1930	Mott B. Schmidt	Georgian Revival	[pdf]
I	M	24	1967	Edward S. Harkness House	1907	James Gamble Rogers	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	M	24	1967	Museum of the City of New York	1929	Joseph H. Freedlander; Polshek Partnership Architects	Georgian Colonial	[pdf]
I	M	24	1967	The Yorkville Branch of the NY Public Library	1902	James Brown Lord	Palladian	[pdf]
I	M	27	1976	City Hall, first floor interior	1803	John McComb Jr. and Joseph F. Mangin	Federal, French Renaissance	[pdf]
I	M	27	1976	Lescaze House	1933	William Lescaze	International	[pdf]
I	M	27	1976	Municipal Asphalt Plant	1941	Kahn & Jacobs	N/A	[pdf]
S	B	28	1975	Ocean Parkway	1874	Olmstead & Vaux	N/A	[pdf]
I	M	28	1975	Central Savings Bank	1926	York & Sawyer; SLCE Architects	Classical	[pdf]
I	M	28	1975	Verdi Square	1906	N/A	N/A	[pdf]
I	M	29	1980	130-134 East 67th Street Apartment Building	1907	Charles A. Platt	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	M	29	1980	149-151 East 67th Street Building (Former Mount Sinai Dispensary)	1889	Buchman & Deisler; Brunner & Tryon	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	M	29	1980	Park East Synagogue	1889	Schneider & Herter	Moorish Revival	[pdf]
I	M	29	1985	Former Coty Building	1907	Woodruff Leeming; Beyer Blinder Belle	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	M	29	1985	Rizzoli Building	1907	Albert S. Gottlieb	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
HD	M	29	2002	Murray Hill Historic District				[pdf]
I	M	30	2001	(Former) Aberdeen Hotel (Now Best Western Manhattan Hotel)	1902	Harry B. Mulliken	Beaux Arts	[pdf]
I	Q	30	1996	La Casina	1933	Li-Saltzman Architects	Moderne	[pdf]
I	S	30	2001	August and Augusta Schoverling House	1880	UNKNOWN	Second Empire	[pdf]
I	S	30	2001	Louis A. and Laura Stirn House	1908	Kafka & Lindenmeyr	Renaissance Revival	[pdf]
I	S	30	2001	Staten Island Family Courthouse (Originally the Staten Island Children’s Courthouse)	1930	Sibley & Fetherston	Georgian	[pdf]
I	M	30	2006	Church of All Saints (Roman Catholic)	1883	Renwick, Aspinwall & Russell; William W. Renwick	Gothic	[pdf]
I	M	30	2007	Horn & Hardart Automat-Cafeteria Building	1930	F.P. Platt & Brother	Art Deco	[pdf]
I	M	30	2007	St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church	1902	William W. Renwick	Gothic	[pdf]