NATIONAL MARITIME UNION, JOSEPH CURRAN ANNEX NEW YORK
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 …
JACOB K. JAVITS CONVENTION CENTER NEW YORK
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 …
NEW AMSTERDAM THEATER NEW YORK
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 …
4–10 GROVE STREET NEW YORK
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 …
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL NEW YORK
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 …
HOTEL MARTINIQUE NEW YORK
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 …
JEFFERSON MARKET LIBRARY NEW YORK
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 …
NEW YORKER HOTEL NEW YORK
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 …
CITICORP CENTER NEW YORK
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 …
ST. VARTAN CATHEDRAL NEW YORK
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 …