Designated 10/16/1990
The 359 Broadway Building is a distinguished early Italianate stone-fronted commercial building constructed in 1852, at a time when this section of Broadway was the city’s most prestigious shopping area, containing a number of fashionable daguerreotype studios. It is an important and unusual example of the Italianate style with distinctive and varied window openings and abundant ornament blending elements from several sources.
STATUS Designated Individual Landmark
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Tribeca
The area now known as Tribeca was originally developed in the early 19th century as a residential neighborhood close to the city’s center in Lower Manhattan. Its street grid was laid out at right angles off of Greenwich Street and on a diagonal off of...
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