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The History of 3 Midtown Neighbors
On Fifth Avenue from 48th to 49th Street are three very different buildings. Two are designated city landmarks; the third and arguably most deserving is not.
July 22, 2010STREETSCAPES | RIVERSIDE DRIVE; The Missing Mansion
ALMOST everyone in New York knows the Frick Collection, at Fifth Avenue and 70th Street, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, at Fifth and 91st, the pair of stupendous mansions built by the steel titans Henry Clay Frick and Andrew Carnegie. But their architectural majesty was only two-thirds of a ferric triad, the last the house of Charles M. Schwab, the Carnegie prot�g� who became the head of United States Steel and then Bethlehem Steel. Schwab had the most impressive site of the three, a full block ...
July 11, 2010
The Uptown Outpost Called the Hispanic Society
The 1908 Hispanic Society of America is a holdout in the uptown cultural ghost town of Audubon Terrace. The society has reinstalled its spectacular murals by Joaqu�n Sorolla.
July 4, 2010
When East 70th Street Was Horse Heaven
A block of East 70th Street was once reserved for the stables of the well-to-do.
June 27, 2010
Along Lafayette Street, Some Very Odd Lots
The northern extension of Lafayette Street at the turn of the last century left some odd-shaped lots — a puzzle for today’s developers.
June 20, 2010
When Banks Looked Like a Million Bucks
In the 1920s, banks built huge and sumptuous halls, in keeping with their rich aspirations.
June 13, 2010
A Stroll Along Bedpan Alley
A walk up First Avenue from 23rd to 30th Street offers a glimpse of what it used to be like on this a stretch of hospitals often called bedpan alley.
June 6, 2010
The Shadow in the Park
Christopher Gray unravels mysteries about the House of Mercy, an institution for wayward girls, and an experimental steel house on the Upper West Side.
May 23, 2010
The Architecture of Jacob Wrey Mould Is a Study in Contrasts
The architect Jacob Wrey Mould was lavish with color. But sometimes, mysteriously, he preferred vanilla.
May 16, 2010
Obsessively Seeking Original Occupant
As a young architectural historian, Christopher Gray was determined to find out who had first slept in his 1910 apartment.
May 9, 2010
The Frick and Other Grand Private Galleries
Henry Clay Frick’s magnificent private art gallery has been open to the public for 75 years.
May 2, 2010One Among Many Ideas for the U.N. Site
The United Nations is starting the long-awaited restoration project on its 1951 headquarters building.
April 25, 2010Workaday Buildings That Aren’t
The Historic Districts Council, a preservation advocacy group, has surveyed the blocks from Madison Square to 34th Street for potential landmark designations.
April 18, 2010Of Captains, Caulkers and Hoop Skirt Makers
Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn is one of the most unusual blocks in Fort Greene.
April 11, 2010Meet Me Beneath the War Angels
Readers’ questions about the terra-cotta masterpiece on Park Avenue at 42nd Street and what a railroad flat is.
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