61 West 70th Street View of 61 West 70th Street from south; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 61 West 70th Street by Megan Fitzpatrick The architectural firm of Charles Buek & Co. constructed one of the earliest rowhouses that appeared on the mostly late 19th-century block on 70th Street. This row of Renaissance Revival-style with Queen Anne...
214 West 91st Street View of 214 West 91st Street aka 2448-2458 Broadway from north west; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Hotel Greystone by Tom Miller In May 1922 the architectural firm of Schwarz & Gross filed plans for “a 14-story brick, steel and limestone apartment hotel…with stores, at the southeast corner of Broadway...
400 West End Avenue View of 400 West End Avenue from northeast; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 400 West End Avenue by Megan Fitzpatrick Few apartment buildings are graced with the privilege of a name, however, this particular plot on the northeast corner of West End Avenue and 79th street was home to two consecutive blocks of named apartments. On...
2465 Broadway View of 2465 Broadway from south east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The F. W. Woolworth Co. Building by Tom Miller Until 1928 a four-story apartment building stood on the west side of Broadway, midway between 91st and 92nd Streets. That year the F. W. Woolworth Co. signed a long-term lease on the property as the site for its...
220 West 98th Street View of 220 West 98th Street, 2586-2596 Broadway from north west; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Borchardt by Tom Miller In his 1912 The Book of New York, Julius Chambers said that the apartment houses erected by Samuel Borchardt “in architectural design and elegance of interior surpass any buildings of the like...
