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STREETSCAPES | NOHO; NoHo/Streetscapes -The ‘Feather King’: A NoHo Prequel
The Cohnfeld Building, completed in 1886, was one of the earliest — and most elaborate — industrial buildings in a loft area that once existed north of Houston Street.
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STREETSCAPES | READERS' QUESTIONS; The Dakota's Back 40
Readers’ questions: The Dakota’s backyard, and Whyte’s restaurant.
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STREETSCAPES | SKYSCRAPERS; Thieves of Light, Built by Barbarians
One World Trade Center will soon return the title of tallest American building to New York City. But time was when the city tried to severely limit building height.
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STREETSCAPES | EAST 68TH STREET; A Hospital With Fine Bones
New York Hospital’s soaring white 1932 skyscraper, though added to and encroached upon, is still something to see.
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STREETSCAPES | WEST 75TH STREET; A Delightfully Oddball Block
Seventy-fifth between Broadway and West End Avenue is an interesting mix of row houses, town houses, Tudor prewars and white brick apartment houses.
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STREETSCAPES; For Career Women, a Hassle-Free Haven
The Martha Washington Hotel, built for women in 1903, was declared a landmark this year.
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STREETSCAPES/MARY MASON JONES; A Woman With an Architectural Appetite
In “The Age of Innocence,” Edith Wharton modeled the character of a house-building aristocrat, Mrs. Manson Mingott, on an aunt, Mary Mason Jones. Mrs. Jones built not only a grand trendsetting...
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STREETSCAPES | PENN STATION; Scapegoat In a Clamshell
Before Pennsylvania Station was reduced to rubble, the architect Lester Tichy designed a modernist ticket counter to revitalize its faded if majestic space.
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AUG. 2 will be the 50th anniversary of the Pennsylvania Station picket line, and the familiar dirge will sound for the majestic structure, thrown away, it is said, by philistines blind to its value....
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STREETSCAPES | READERS' QUESTIONS; Vanished Hangouts Of the Sneakered Set
On the fates of Manhattan tennis courts and the General Post Office of 1875.
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STREETSCAPES | MARQUEES; No Need to Get Your Top Hat Wet
Glass-topped canopies were once the mark of a distinguished building.
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STREETSCAPES; Streetscapes — Park Avenue, the ’Tween Years
Park Avenue in Midtown was a very different place in the early 20th century, before the switching yards of Grand Central were covered and the railroad electrified.
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THE reconstruction of Park Avenue in Midtown is just getting under way, first with Harry Macklowe's quarter-mile-high apartment house at 56th Street, then with similar projects waiting in the wings....
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STREETSCAPES/THE HARVARD CLUB; 'The Clubbiest Club in New York'
The Harvard Club on West 44th Street is a holdout on what was once a block of clubs.
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STREETSCAPES | BROOKLYN HEIGHTS; Brooklyn Heights/Streetscapes - Still in...
A century ago Columbia Heights was “the most fashionable street in Brooklyn,” and it remains highly desirable today.
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