Designated: June 25, 2024 The Willoughby-Hart Historic District, encompassing Willoughby Avenue and Hart Street between Marcy and Nostrand Avenues, offers an especially cohesive and highly intact streetscape of late 19th-century neo-Grec, Second Empire, and Romanesque Revival row houses, which create a unique sense of place. Architect Isaac D. Reynolds designed nearly 50 buildings within the […]
Designated: June 18, 2024 Designed by the lauded firm McKenzie, Voorhes & Gmelin noted for such buildings as the ATT Long Distance Building and Brooklyn Borough Hall, the Brooklyn Edison Building helps tell the story of Downtown Brooklyn’s illustrious commercial history. The building’s Renaissance Revival grandeur expresses the ambition of the Borough. At the same […]
Designed: June 4, 2024 Designed by Skillman and Farnsworth, and built 1881-1883, The Temple Court Building was a pioneer in “tall office building” construction, one of the city’s first “fire proof” structures, and an early experiment in the skyscraper form. Its nine levels of historic galleries showcase ornate ironwork and arched doors and windows. The […]
Designated: May 14, 2024 HDC Designation testimony: Built between 1920 and 1922 by Warren & Wetmore for the developer and philanthropist August Heckscher, 730 5th Avenue was one of the first buildings whose design was influenced by the stipulations of the 1916 zoning code, which mandated the setbacks that led to New York’s iconic Art […]
Designated: December 19, 2023 Ulrich Franzen’s Barkin, Levin & Company Office Building offers both a history of the development of Modernism in America, and an education about the architectural development of Postwar Queens. Ulrich Franzen was born in Dusseldorf and died in Santa Fe. That trajectory reflects the paths of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, […]
Designated: Exterior – December 19, 2023; Interior – May 6, 2025 Paul Rudolph began this remarkable fusion of commercial space, residential space, interior design, and architectural vision near the end of his life, completing the first phase before he died. Rudolph’s legacy is very much alive here. Modulightor, the lighting company Rudolph founded with his […]
Designated: December 13, 2022 The Melrose Parkside Historic District is a remarkably intact and cohesive group of 38 single- and two-family neo-Classical row houses. Built between 1909 – 1915 they reflect the early 20th Century residential development of Flatbush. While most of the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s district designations in Flatbush recognize freestanding Victorian homes, or […]
The Hotel Roosevelt was designed in 1924 by George B. Post & Son by one of the leading firms active in New York in the early part of the twentieth century. Like the Postum Building, the Hotel Roosevelt is one of the rare intact buildings remaining from the Terminal City development associated with the construction […]
Built in 1923/24 and designed by Cross & Cross and Phelps Barnum, the building is unique as one of the only remaining Pre-World War II office buildings on Park Avenue. The Postum was part of “Terminal City,” also known as the Grand Central Zone, an early 20th century commercial and office development in Midtown Manhattan, […]
Designated: November 9, 2021 *The first-floor lobby has a T-shaped plan, consisting of the East 35th and East 36th Street foyers, a through-block arcade, and a perpendicular elevator hall. The arcade and entrance foyers have highly polished marble walls, patterned terrazzo floors, and gilded plaster ceilings inspired by Renaissance, Baroque, and 18th English sources. Each […]
