The building that serves the Maritume Union is appropriately nautical, its fa§ade pierced with round porthole-like windows. The fa§ade itself is sloped like the hull of a ship, but …
This is the ultimate glass box, with glass covering 1.8 million square feet of floor space”enough to accommodate six simultaneous events and 85,000 people at one time in its …
Once the home of the Ziegfeld Follies, this wonderful Art Nouveau theater became a movie palace in the 1930s and then deteriorated into virtual ruin. In the 1990s, the …
These houses are among the last survivors of the early Federal-Style homes that dominated the city in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The wrought iron work (including …
This 6,200-seat temple to the performing arts was originally intended to be a variety playhouse, but when ticket-buyers didn’t respond, it was quickly transformed into a movie theater with …
A Holiday Inn by the architect of the original Waldorf-Astoria and Plaza Hotels, this opulent building was converted into a homeless shelter before being returned to use as an …
A flamboyant Victorian Gothic structure designed by Calvert Vaux, the architect of the buildings and bridges of Central Park, this building stood empty and abandoned for twenty-two years before …
Now owned by the Unification Church, the New Yorker was, with 2,503 guest rooms, one of the city’s biggest when it was built. An early advertisement boasted that its …
The cost of the site for this building came to $40 million, making it Manhattan’s most expensive real estate, and there was one holdout at that: St. Peter’s Lutheran …
This is a bit of old Armenia writ large on Second Avenue. An adaptation of the small Romanesque churches of Asia Minor, its gold dome dominates the streetscape for …