Upper West Side - Central Park West (designated 1990)
The district evokes the distinctive qualities of the Upper West Side, from
its powerful iconography of twin towers along Central Park West to its active
commerce along Columbus Ave. to its residential side streets. The district
is defined by a large concentration of architecturally significant buildings
erected during the fifty years between the opening of the Ninth Avenue
Elevated in 1879 (along what is now Columbus Ave.) and the Great
Depression. During this period of rampant speculative development,
hundreds of rowhouses were built on the side streets between Central
Park West and Amsterdam Ave., while French flats and tenements were
constructed along Amsterdam and Columbus Ave. and on the adjoining
streets. A few grand apartment houses were built early in this period, but
most date to the turn of the century when the neighborhood's great Beaux-Arts
buildings were erected. In the 1920s, many large apartment houses and
apartment hotels were built with Central Park West's twin tower buildings
appearing at the end of the decade and into the early 1930s. Through this
entire span of development, important institutions - museums, churches
and synagogues - made their way to the residential mix. Click here for boundaries.

Central Park West - West 73rd-74th Streets (1977)
This square block contains some of the finest residential design on the
Upper West Side. The earliest buildings in the district are 18 rowhouses
on 73rd St., which survive from a row of 28 designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh
in 1882-85 for Edward Clark. Their style is compatible with the nearby Dakota
Apartments (1880-84) also designed by Hardenbergh for Clark. Clark's
grandson, developed much of 74th St. (1902-04) with a long row of
neo-Georgian houses. In 1902 the Clarks sold the Central Park West frontage
and the elegant, Beaux-Arts detailed Langham Apartments (1904-07) was erected. Click here for boundaries.

Central Park West - 76th Street (1973)
This was one of the first areas of the Upper West Side to receive landmark
protection. Rowhouse construction began on 76th Street in 1887; by 1900, 44
had been built in the district. The district retains examples of four building
types common to the Upper West Side at the turn-of-the-century: A Beaux-Arts
style apartment house, the Kenilworth (1906-08); the neo-Gothic Church of
the Divine Paternity (now Fourth Universalist Society (1897-98)); the
Classical Revival New-York Historical Society (1903-08 & 1937-38); and an
artist's residence, the Studio Building (1907-09) at 44 West 77th Street. This
new building form consisted of two-story artist's studios and residential units. Click here for boundaries.

West End - Collegiate (1984)
Named for the nearby West End Collegiate Church at 77th and West End
Ave., this district consists primarily of speculative rowhouses built in the last
15 years of the 19th century by some of the city's most talented rowhouse
architects, including C.P.H. Gilbert, Lamb & Rich and Clarence True. They
created blocks with a blend of Italian, French, Flemish Renaissance and
other sylistic forms. In the first decades of this century several apartment
houses were built in the district reflecing the decline in rowhouse
construction as land values rose and apartment living became socially
acceptable for affluent New Yorkers. Click here for boundaries.

West 71st Street (1989)
This small district sitting on a quiet cul-de-sac features 33 rowhouses built in
six groups between 1893 and 1896, a single townhouse (1903-04), and an
apartment building (1924). The block's cohesive quality comes from the
uniform use of Renaissance-inspired detail on the rowhouses. Click here for boundaries.

Riverside Drive - West 80th-81st Streets (1985)
This district illustrates the early residential development of the Upper West
Side's West End section. In 1891 Charles Israels designed a row of five
houses for 81st St. in a style combining Romanesque Revival and neo-
Renaissance elements. Two years later, he designed a row for 80th St. At the
end of the 1890s another wave of rowhouse construction brought several
grand townhouses on and adjacent to Riverside Drive by the
architect/developer Clarence True. About the same time, three modest French
flats went up on 80th St. And finally in 1926, one of True's houses was
demolished and replaced by a 19-story neo-Classical apartment building. Click here for boundaries.

Riverside Drive-West End (1989)
Because it was located at a distance from the Elevated on Columbus
Ave., the West End area developed somewhat later than areas nearer
Central Park. Development in this district began in earnest in 1887,
with speculative rowhouses rising along West End Ave. and the side
streets for the next ten years. Early in the 20th century, elegant
apartment houses such as the Evanston (1910) and the Chautauqua
(1911) began to arrive, many replacing the earlier rowhouses.
After 1920 the truly important apartment houses came to Riverside
Drive culminating in The Normandy (1939). Click here for boundaries.

Riverside Drive - West 105th Street (1973)
This small district consists of residences erected between 1899-1902.
The cohesiveness of the district's rowhouses and townhouses is due
to the brief construction span; the use of English basements and
common materials, predominantly limestone; the exuberant Beaux-
Arts detail; and restrictive covenants. These covenants, requiring
buildings of "suitable character" to benefit the neighborhood, limited
construction to single-family houses and encouraged the use of
architectural detail and high quality materials. Click here for boundaries.

Manhattan Avenue Historic District (2007)
This quiet neighborhood enclave west of Central Park West is
characterized by brick and stone rowhouses featuring terra-cotta trim,
fine ironwork, intact stoops, elaborate cornices, gargoyles and
sunburst motifs.  Development of the proposed district began in
1885, was completed by 1890 and features the work of prominent
New York architects, including E.L. Angell, J.M. Dunn and C.P.H. Gilbert. Click here for boundaries.

1. Central Park
2. Verdi Square
3. Riverside Park