Designated May 17, 1988 Tudor City was the brainchild of the Fred F. French Company in 1925 and designed by architects under the direction of H. Douglas Ives as a middle-class city within a city. Part of the Garden City urban planning movement, the development includes Tudor Revival style apartment buildings and shops in a […]
Designated June 21, 1966 Two rows of ten houses were built in the 1860s and remodeled in 1920 surrounding a central garden with a fountain copied from the Villa Medici.
Designated May 7, 1991 The functional, yet decorative buildings found in this district were designed in vernacular and popular period styles of the last half of the 1800s. Granite-slab sidewalks and Belgian-block street pavers complete the area’s 19th-century commercial feeling.
Designated December 8, 1992 Extended November 19, 2002 This district features 5-story, Italianate, cast-iron store-and-loft buildings primarily constructed during the 1850s. Their large, open interior spaces were ideal for the storage, display and selling of dry goods.
Designated December 8, 1992 Some of the city’s earliest surviving industrial buildings and largest, late-19th century brick warehouses can be found in this district.
Designated December 8, 1992 From the 1850s to the 1880s “mercantile palaces” were built here. With cast-iron storefronts, these buildings typically housed a dry goods store on the ground level and offices, storage, or light manufacturing on the upper floors.
Designated December 13, 1967 French Second Empire, three- and four-story brownstones stand along the tree-lined streets of this district. The homes, some designed by Richard Morris Hunt and James W. Pirrson, were built between 1868 and 1876 on the former farm of Adam Tredwell. Protective covenants dating back to 1868 ensured quality of uniformity setting […]
Designated September 23, 1975 Stuyvesant Square was laid out in 1836, and the earliest existing houses in the district date to 1842-1843. These Greek Revivals were joined over the decade by elegant Gothic Revival, Italianate, and French Renaissance row houses and turn-of-the-century apartment houses in neo-Renaissance styles.
Designated June 25, 1996 This district is made up of two blocks of low-rise 1830s commercial structures on New York City’s first paved street. The buildings are primarily Greek Revival, built after the fire of 1835, some with early 20th-century Dutch and Tudor Revival renovations.
Designated: March 16, 1967 Developer David H. King, Jr. (whose famous projects included the base of the Statue of Liberty and Stanford White’s Madison Square Garden) had a series of elegant row houses built on the heights overlooking St. Nicholas Park between 1891 and 1893. James Brown Lord designed red brick houses in the Neo-Georgian […]
