The Historic Districts Council partnered with the Rose Hill/Kips Bay Coalition via our 2024 Six to Celebrate program.
Together, HDC and the Coalition surveyed Manhattan’s Rose Hill and Kips Bay neighborhoods in order to identify significant, undesignated properties that we believe merit designation as Individual or Interior Landmarks. As a result of that survey work, we sent the Landmarks Commission seven Requests for Evaluation (RFEs) for the following sites:
Proposed for Individual Landmark Status:
400 First Avenue – The former “Institute for the Crippled and Disabled”
23 Lexington Avenue – The former George Washington Hotel
346 Park Avenue South – The Provident Loan Society
152 East 34th Street – The Armenian Evangelical Church
207 East 32nd Street – The former Milton Glaser Studio Building
Proposed for Individual Landmark and Interior Landmark Status:
149 East 23rd Street – The Madison Square Post Office
Together, these buildings tell a diverse set of stories and reflect a variety of uses. From the birthplace of Ms. Magazine and New York magazines to a series of public murals by the WPA era artist Kindred McLeary, these sites showcase aspects of the multifaceted history of Rose Hill/Kips Bay. We are excited to share these histories in our RFEs. As always, we are proud to work with our neighborhood partners to share and uplift the rich and diverse history of New York City.
