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STREETSCAPES | UPPER WEST SIDE; The Odd-Man-Out Town House
No. 327 West 76th Street is part of a small row, but you wouldn’t know it because the fiery red brick town house marches to a different tune than its siblings.
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STREETSCAPES | RETAIL EMPORIUMS; Shop Till You Drop, 19th-Century Style
The strip of Broadway from 17th to 23rd Street makes a great walking tour of some of the great retail architecture of the 19th century.
View ArticleSTREETSCAPES; Useful Vocabulary For Building Watchers
A few definitions of architectural terms that those who want fluency in New York architecture will find useful.
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STREETSCAPES | PARK ROW; Streetscapes - The Pioneering Tribune Building of 1875
Was the 1875 Tribune Building a pioneering skyscraper masterpiece, or no better than a “liquor palace” torn down in the 1960s?
View ArticleSTREETSCAPES | PARK ROW; Black and White and Red All Over
WAS the 1875 Tribune Building a pioneering skyscraper masterpiece, foully demolished in 1966 before the Landmarks Preservation Commission had a chance to save it? Or was it no better than a ''sugar...
View ArticleSTREETSCAPES | PARK ROW; Black and White and Red All Over
WAS the 1875 Tribune Building a pioneering skyscraper masterpiece, foully demolished in 1966 before the Landmarks Preservation Commission had a chance to save it? Or was it no better than a ''sugar...
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STREETSCAPES | NOHO; NoHo/Streetscapes -The ‘Feather King’: A NoHo Prequel
The Cohnfeld Building, completed in 1886, was one of the earliest — and most elaborate — industrial buildings in a loft area that once existed north of Houston Street.
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STREETSCAPES | READERS' QUESTIONS; The Dakota's Back 40
Readers’ questions: The Dakota’s backyard, and Whyte’s restaurant.
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STREETSCAPES | SKYSCRAPERS; Thieves of Light, Built by Barbarians
One World Trade Center will soon return the title of tallest American building to New York City. But time was when the city tried to severely limit building height.
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STREETSCAPES | WEST 75TH STREET; A Delightfully Oddball Block
Seventy-fifth between Broadway and West End Avenue is an interesting mix of row houses, town houses, Tudor prewars and white brick apartment houses.
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STREETSCAPES; For Career Women, a Hassle-Free Haven
The Martha Washington Hotel, built for women in 1903, was declared a landmark this year.
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STREETSCAPES/MARY MASON JONES; A Woman With an Architectural Appetite
In “The Age of Innocence,” Edith Wharton modeled the character of a house-building aristocrat, Mrs. Manson Mingott, on an aunt, Mary Mason Jones. Mrs. Jones built not only a grand trendsetting...
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STREETSCAPES | READERS' QUESTIONS; Vanished Hangouts Of the Sneakered Set
On the fates of Manhattan tennis courts and the General Post Office of 1875.
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STREETSCAPES/THE HARVARD CLUB; 'The Clubbiest Club in New York'
The Harvard Club on West 44th Street is a holdout on what was once a block of clubs.
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STREETSCAPES | BROOKLYN HEIGHTS; Brooklyn Heights/Streetscapes - Still in...
A century ago Columbia Heights was “the most fashionable street in Brooklyn,” and it remains highly desirable today.
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