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Manhattan Municipal Building panorama

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:34:25 -0800

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The Manhattan Municipal Building was the city's attempt to centralize government departments and agencies into one place after the consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898. Stalin was reportedly an admirer--the "Seven Sisters" skyscrapers in Moscow are supposedly modeled after it.

I say a little more about the Manhattan Municipal Building on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
Municipal Building: 72000879

Chambers Street station panorama 1

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:52:35 -0800

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Built in conjunction with the Manhattan Municipal Building above it, this grimy, cavernous subway station lost much of its usefulness when new transit connections were built and the city's industry and commerce moved uptown. It was informally voted the ugliest station in the entire New York City subway system back in 2003.

I say a tiny bit more about the station on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
Chambers Street Subway Station (Dual System BMT): 05000669

A.T. Stewart Company Store/Sun Building

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:27:58 -0800

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280 Broadway was built in 1846 as A.T. Stewart's "Marble Palace," one of the key forerunners to the modern department store; Henry James remembered it as "the ladies' great shop, vast, marmorean, plate-glassy and notoriously fatal to the female nerve." After Stewart died and his business was driven into the ground, it later served as an office building. It housed the headquarters of F.W. Woolworth and Company before the construction of the Woolworth Building; the offices of the original New York Sun; and today, the New York City Department of Buildings. Fittingly, it has retail on the ground floor: a Modell's, a Radio Shack, and a Duane Reade.

I say a bit more about the A.T. Stewart & Co. Store on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
A.T. Stewart Company Store: 78001885

Former New York Life Insurance Company Building

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:26:47 -0800

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I say a little about 346 Broadway on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
Former New York Life Insurance Company Building: 82003376

Broome Street panorama

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:23:15 -0700

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Looking west from Mercer Street.

I say a whole lot more about SoHo on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
SoHo Historic District: 78001883

The SoHo Apple Store

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:54:04 -0700

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103-107 Prince Street was designed as a post office by Thomas W. Lamb, who would later become of America's foremost theater architects. It later became the first Apple Store in New York City.

I say a little more about 103-107 Prince Street on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
SoHo Historic District: 78001883

Greene Street panorama

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:54:12 -0700

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Five of the buildings in this photo--62-64, 58-60, 67, 69-71, and 73 Greene Street--were designed by Henry Fernbach, called by some America's first Jewish architect.

I say a little more about Greene Street and Henry Fernbach on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
SoHo Historic District: 78001883

105 Mercer Street

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:26:39 -0700

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Built 1819-20, this Federal style residence is the third-oldest building in the Soho Historic District. (107 Spring Street is the oldest.) It also spent some time as a brothel when the area was a red-light district--now it's a very nice home, I'm sure.

I say a little more about 105 Mercer Street and SoHo's whoring history on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
SoHo Historic District: 78001883

Christopher Street, 06/24/11, nearing midnight

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:27:00 -0700

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National Register Numbers:
Greenwich Village Historic District: 79001604
Stonewall: 99000562

The New York Stock Exchange

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:28:20 -0800

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I say a few things about the NYSE on my landmarks blog. Not that much.

National Register Numbers
New York Stock Exchange: 78001877
Wall Street Historic District: 07000063

Chambers Street station panorama 2

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:24:03 -0800

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Built in conjunction with the Manhattan Municipal Building above it, this enormous subway station lost much of its usefulness when new transit connections were built and the city's industry and commerce moved uptown. It was informally voted the ugliest station in the entire New York City subway system back in 2003.

I say a tiny bit more about the station on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
Chambers Street Subway Station (Dual System BMT): 05000669

At the Tweed Courthouse, even the office supplies offer a warm hello

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:53:42 -0800

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Thanks to the Civil War, the death of its original architect, and--most importantly--the machinations of the William "Boss" Tweed and his cronies, who marked-up and diverted construction funds, the New York County Courthouse took twenty years and the contemporary equivalent of $200 million to build. Today it houses offices for the Deparment of Education, and the city offers free tours--go go go!

All that detailing around the door? Cast iron. Not wood, not marble.

I say a LOT more about the Tweed Courthouse on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
Tweed Courthouse: 74001277

Tweed Courthouse interior panorama

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:54:27 -0800

epicharmus posted a photo:

Thanks to the Civil War, the death of its original architect, and--most importantly--the machinations of the William "Boss" Tweed and his cronies, who marked-up and diverted construction funds, the New York County Courthouse took twenty years and the contemporary equivalent of $200 million to build. Today it houses offices for the Deparment of Education, and the city offers free tours--go go go!

I say a LOT more about the Tweed Courthouse on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
Tweed Courthouse: 74001277

Tweed Courthouse panorama

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:32:08 -0800

epicharmus posted a photo:

Thanks to the Civil War, the death of its original architect, and--most importantly--the machinations of the William "Boss" Tweed and his cronies, who marked-up and diverted construction funds, the New York County Courthouse took twenty years and the contemporary equivalent of $200 million to build. Today it houses offices for the Deparment of Education, and the city offers free tours--go go go!

I say a LOT more about the Tweed Courthouse on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
Tweed Courthouse: 74001277 (New York County, New York)

254-260 Canal Street panorama

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:40:32 -0800

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Also known as the Bruce Building, after the building's owner, George Bruce, 254-260 Canal Street is one of only five surviving buildings known or suspected of being cast-iron pioneer James Bogardus' works.

I say a little more about the Bruce Building and George Bruce on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
Building at 254-260 Canal Street: 06000475

The SoHo Apple Store

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:09:57 -0700

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Greene Street panorama 2

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:00:29 -0700

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28-30 Greene Street, the center-right grey building, is a French Second Empire cast-iron confection affectionately known as "The Queen of Greene Street."

I say a little more about 28-30 Greene Street on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
SoHo Historic District: 78001883

448 Broome Street

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:12:40 -0700

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A rarity: a cast-iron executed in High Victorian Gothic, designed by the firm of Vaux, Withers & Co. in 1872.

I say a little more about 448 Broome Street on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
SoHo Historic District: 78001883

427-429 Broadway

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:32:38 -0700

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427-429 Broadway (Thomas Jackson, 1871) is one of SoHo's many fine cast-iron buildings. It was built for A. J. Dittenhoefer, something of a celebrity lawyer of New York's Gilded Age--among other things, he campaigned for Abraham Lincoln and successfully defended Enrico Caruso against charges of sexual molestation.

I say a little more about this building, cast iron, and A. J. Dittenhoefer on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
SoHo Historic District: 78001883

502-504 Broadway a.k.a. Bloomingdale's SoHo

nobody@flickr.com (epicharmus) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:34:20 -0700

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In its current incarnation, 502-504 Broadway (John Kellum, 1860) serves as the home of Bloomingdale's SoHo; it used to be the site of furrier C.G. Gunther & Co., china retailer John Vogt & Co., and, more recently, vintage clothier Canal Jeans.

I say a little more about 502-504 Broadway on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.

National Register Number
SoHo Historic District: 78001883