2248-2258 Broadway

2248-2258 Broadway

2248-2258 Broadway View of 2248-2258 Broadway taken from west; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive Keith’s 81st Street Theatre by Tom Miller Born in Dundee, Scotland, Thomas W. Lamb arrived in New York in 1883 at the age of 12 and went on to study architecture at the Cooper Union.  Eventually, after working as a buildings inspector for the...
2241-2247 Broadway

2241-2247 Broadway

2241-2247 Broadway View of 2241-2247 Broadway taken from east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Hotel Emerson/The Calvin Apartments by Tom Miller In 1890 developer Christian Blinn sold the four properties at the northwest corner of Broadway and 80th Street to Julia Schwartz.  He had built the three-story brick-faced dwellings and stores in...
2315 Broadway

2315 Broadway

2315 Broadway View of 2315 Broadway taken from northeast; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Broadway Fashion Building by Tom Miller In 1926 M. Henry Sugarman and A. G. Berger partnered to form the architectural firm of Sugarman & Berger.  Two years later they started plans for what would be, perhaps, their most memorable...
2350 Broadway

2350 Broadway

2350 Broadway View of 2350 Broadway taken from southwest; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive Hotel Bretton Hall by Tom Miller In 1902 developer brothers James and David Todd commissioned the fledgling architect Harry B. Mulliken to design a minor structure–a one-story wooden tool shed on West 114th Street.  It may have been a test of...
2420-2494 Broadway

2420-2494 Broadway

2420-2494 Broadway View of 2420-2494 Broadway taken from southwest; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive Astor Court by Tom Miller On June 20, 1914 the Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide reported that architect Charles A. Platt had filed plans for a 12-story “store and apartments” building to fill the eastern blockfront between...