Five Hundred Buildings of New York by Harris, Bill -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents Foreword by Judith Dupré Photographer’s Note Lower Manhattan

Statue of Liberty Ellis Island National Monument Staten Island Ferry Terminal One Broadway Whitehall Building Standard & Poors Building Bowling Green IRT Control House Standard Oil Building Alexander Hamilton Custom House 2 Broadway Broad Financial Center Goldman-Sachs Building American Bank Note Company Fraunces Tavern Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton One New York Plaza 3 New York Plaza 4 New York Plaza First Precinct, NYPD Battery Maritime Building Continental Center National Westminster Bank Wall Street Plaza Morgan Bank Home Insurance Plaza Morgan Guaranty Trust Building 55 Water Street India House New York Stock Exchange Chase Manhattan Bank Tower Williamsburgh Savings Bank Regent Wall Street Hotel Trump Building Banca Commerciale Italiana 13–15 South William Street Chubb & Sons New York Cocoa Exchange Delmonico’s Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Trinity Church Federal Hall National Memorial 45 Wall Street Bankers Trust Company Building Bank of New York Equitable Building Liberty Tower Federal Reserve Bank of New York Trinity and U.S. Realty Buildings Bank of Tokyo

World Trade Center

World Financial Center World Trade Center Millenium Hilton Hotel St. Paul’s Chapel Garrison Building Federal Office Building American Telephone Barclay-Vesey Building One Liberty Plaza East River Savings Bank St. Peter’s Church Museum of Jewish Heritage

The Seaport and Civic Center

Schermerhorn Row Bogardus Building Pier 17 ILX Systems 127 John Street Down Town Association American International Building Potter Building Park Row Building Morse Building Bennett Building Excelsior Power Company Temple Court American Tract Society Building Woolworth Building NYC Police Headquarters United States Courthouse New York County Courthouse St. Andrew’s Church Murray Bergtraum High School Pace University City Hall Home Life Insurance Company Building Criminal Courts Building and Men’s House of Detention New York City Family Court New York County Courthouse Municipal Building Surrogate’s Court/Hall of Records Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building

Chinatown and the Lower East Side

Hong Kong Bank Building 254–260 Canal Street HSBC Bank Chinese Merchant’s Association Bialystoker Synagogue Ritual Bathhouse Henry Street Settlement Jacob Riis Houses St. George’s Ukrainian Catholic Church Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Church Stuyvesant-Fish House Joseph Papp Public Theater Cooper Union Foundation Building Bouwerie Lane Theater McSorley’s Old Ale House Engine Company No. 33

Soho and Tribeca

Scholastic Building Civic Center Synagogue AT&T Headquarters Saatchi & Saatchi D.F.S. Compton World Headquarters Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District 172 Duane Street 155 West Broadway 319 Broadway 36–57 White Street AT&T Long Lines Building Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Broadway-Chambers Building E. V. Haughwout Building New Era Building Police Building Apartment Puck Building

Greenwich Village

Grace Church New York Mercantile Exchange One Fifth Avenue The New School for Social Research Washington Mews 127–131 MacDougal Street Cable Building The Atrium 1–13 Washington Square North New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture Judson Memorial Church Renwick Terrace Jefferson Market Library Gay Street 4–10 Grove Street St. Vincent’s Hospital “Twin Peaks” 39 and 41 Commerce Street 6 St. Luke’s Place U.S. Federal Archive Building “Narrowest House”

Chelsea

Chelsea Hotel Hugh O’Neill Dry Goods Store Salvation Army Centennial Memorial Temple 428–450 West 23rd Street Starret-Lehigh Building Joyce Theater Church of the Holy Communion Gorham Silver Company Building Lord & Taylor Building Siegel-Cooper Dry Goods Store Church of the Holy Apostles London Terrace National Maritime Union, Joseph Curran Annex

Gramercy Park and Kips Bay

Stuyvesant Fish House 3 and 4 Gramercy Park West The Players Friends Meeting House and Seminary Old Stuyvesant High School 326, 328, and 330 East 18th Street One Union Square South Western Union Telegraph Building Con Edison Building Marble Collegiate Church Metropolitan Life Insurance Company New York Life Insurance Company Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava Flatiron Building Gilsey House Estonian House Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Kips Bay Plaza St. Vartan Cathedral Public Baths Bellevue Hospital Center Waterside

Midtown

United Nations Headquarters 1 United Nations Plaza Beekman Tower Trump World Tower Ford Foundation Building Tudor City Villard Houses 885 Third Avenue Daily News Building J. P. Morgan Chase Building General Electric Building Turtle Bay Gardens Chanin Building Mobil Building Chrysler Building George S. Bowdoin Stable Bowery Savings Bank Andy Warhol’s “Factory” Vanderbilt Hotel Philip Morris Headquarters Met Life Building Grand Central Terminal Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Helmsley Building St. Bartholomew’s Church Consulate General of Poland IBM Building Crown Building Trump Tower Henri Bendel University Club Tiffany’s Cartier’s Saks Fifth Avenue International Building St. Patrick’s Cathedral Associated Press Building The Plaza Hotel Bergdorf Goodman General Motors Building Algonquin Hotel RCA Building Radio City Music Hall New York Yacht Club New York Public Library American Standard Building Pierpont Morgan Library Empire State Building Macy’s Church of the Incarnation Hotel Martinique CBS Building Columbia Artists Management Art Students League Carnegie Hall City Center 55th Street Theater Brill Building The Osborne One Times Square Reuters Building Condé Nast Building Paramount Building Lyceum Theater New Amsterdam Theater Shubert Alley Actor’s Studio Ed Sullivan Theater Music Box Theater New Yorker Hotel General Post Office Jacob K. Javits Convention Center

Roosevelt Island

Lighthouse Good Shepherd Ecumenical Center James Blackwell Farmhouse Motorgate

Upper East Side

Citicorp Center Seagram Building Central Synagogue 40 East 62nd Street Sherry-Netherland Hotel Racquet and Tennis Club Hermès Lever House Edith and Ernesto Fabbri House Bloomingdale’s New York Academy of Sciences Abigail Adams Smith Museum Cyril and Barbara Rutherford Hatch House Sotheby’s New York Presbyterian Hospital-New York-Cornell Medical Campus 45 East 66th Street J.P. Morgan-Chase Bank Edward Durrell Stone House Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House Church of St. Vincent Ferrer Temple Emanu-El Union Club Hunter College Frick Collection Seventh Regiment Armory Polo/Ralph Lauren Lycée Français de New York Istituto Italiano di Cultura Asia Society French Consulate 980 Madison Avenue St. Jean Baptiste Church East 73rd Street Whitney Museum of American Art Ukrainian Institute Cultural Services, Embassy of France Iselin House Church of St. Ignatius Loyola DeKoven House Metropolitan Museum of Art Duke House National Academy of Design Consulate of the Russian Federation Cooper-Hewitt Museum Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1321 Madison Avenue El Museo del Barrio Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center The Jewish Museum Squadron A Armory Façade Islamic Cultural Center St. Nicholas Cathedral Duchene Residence School Ruppert Towers Museum of the City of New York Henderson Place

Central Park

Friedsam Memorial Carousel The Dairy The Arsenal Tavern-on-the-Green Harlem Meer Boathouse Belvedere Castle

Upper West Side

Trump International Hotel and Tower Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts 200 Central Park South First Battery Armory Century Apartments Trump Place Pythian Temple Hotel des Artistes The Chatsworth Christ and St. Stephen’s Church Majestic Apartments Dakota Apartment The Dorilton San Remo Apartments New York Historical Society American Museum of Natural History The Red House Central Savings Bank First Baptist Church Apthorp Apartments Ansonia Hotel The Montana Belnord Apartments The Beresford The Eldorado 6–8 West 95th Street First Church of Christ, Scientist St. Michael’s Church The Children’s Mansion Master Apartments Pomander Walk 854–858 West End Avenue Calhoun School

Harlem and the Heights

St. Paul’s Chapel Low Memorial Library Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine Avery Hall Graham Court Grant’s Tomb Riverside Church Union Theological Seminary Washington Apartments St. Mary’s Church-Manhattanville Jewish Theological Seminary Wadleigh High School Theresa Towers Apollo Theater St. Andrew’s Church 17 East 128th Street Striver’s Row Hamilton Grange Abyssinian Baptist Church 135th Street Gatehouse City College Audubon Terrace Church of the Intercession Morris-Jumel Mansion United Church Highbridge Water Tower The Cloisters Dyckman House

The Bronx

Bronx County Building Park Plaza Apartments Public School 27 St. Ann’s Church Old Bronx Borough Courthouse Morris High School 1969–1999 Morris Avenue Emigrant Savings Bank Loew’s Paradise Theater Bronx Zoo/Wildlife Conservation Park Enid A. Haupt Conservatory St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church Lewis Morris Apartments Poe Cottage Fordham University Lorillard Snuff Mill Bedford Park Presbyterian Church Montefiore Apartments II Greyston Wave Hill Van Cortlandt Mansion College of Mount St. Vincent Riverdale Presbyterian Church Co-Op City Huntington Free Library and Reading Room St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf 21 Tier Street 173 Belden Street Bartow-Pell Mansion

Queens

New York State Supreme Court Citicorp Building Queens Atrium Silvercup Studios Calvary Cemetery Gatehouse Steinway Mansion Lathan Lithography Company Louis Armstrong House Edward E. Sanford House Adrian Onderdonk House West Side Tennis Club Forest Hills Garden Jamaica Business Resource Center Jamaica Arts Center Murdock Avenue Queens College Engine Company 289, NYFD New York State Pavilion Hindu Temple Society of North America Lewis H. Latimer House St. John’s University St. George’s Church Wildflower Benjamin P. Allen House

Downtown Brooklyn

2 and 3 Pierrepont Place 24 Middagh Street Hotel Bossert 105 Montague Street Packer Collegiate Institute 164–168 Atlantic Avenue Grace Church Riverside Apartments 129 Joralemon Street St. Paul’s Church of Brooklyn Workingmen’s Cottages 301–311 Clinton Street Temple Bar Building Post Office Building and Court House Dime Savings Bank Brooklyn Borough Hall New York & New Jersey Telephone Company Building City of Brooklyn Fire Headquarters The Clock Tower Fire Boat Pier Eagle Warehouse Watchtower Building

Brooklyn

Brooklyn Academy of Music 179–186 Washington Park St. Joseph’s College Public Bath No. 7 Residence, Bishop of Brooklyn Brooklyn Masonic Temple Vachte-Cortelyou House Pratt Row Pratt Institute Alhambra Apartments Independent United Order of Mechanics 1281 President Street Twentieth Precinct, NYPD Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord Greenpoint Savings Bank Williamsburgh Savings Bank 19th Precinct Station House Grant Square Senior Center Holy Trinity Church of Ukrainian Autocaphalic Orthodox Church in Exile Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building The Montauk Club Congregation Beth Elohim Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch Lefferts Homestead Brooklyn Public Library Brooklyn Botanic Garden Greenhouses Montessori School 944–946 President Street 182 Sixth Avenue Lillian Ward House Albemarle Terrace East 16th Street Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Erasmus Hall Museum Cyclone F.W.I.L. Lundy Brothers Restaurant

Staten Island

Garibaldi-Meucci Memorial Museum Wagner College 53 Harrison Street 110–144 Vanderbilt Avenue Paramount Theater Frederick I. Rodewald House Pritchard House W. S. Pendleton House Ambassador Apartments Staten Island Lighthouse The Conference House Church of St. Joachim and St. Anne

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