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...
255 West 84th Street View of 255 West 84th Street aka 2321-2331 Broadway from south east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Alameda by Tom Miller Although Charles V. Paterno earned his medical degree from Cornell University in 1899, he did not practice. The son of real estate dealer John Paterno, he and his brother Joseph took over the...
471 West End Avenue View of 471 West End Avenue from east ; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 471 West End Avenue by Tom Miller In 1885 builder George W. Rogers commissioned the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White to design six houses that would wrap the southwest corner of West End Avenue and 83rd Street. West End Avenue was...
378 Amsterdam Avenue View of 378 Amsterdam Avenue from north east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 378 Amsterdam Avenue by Tom Miller Developer Bernard S. Levy was prolific on the Upper West Side in the last decades of the 19th century, erecting long rows of residences as well as several “flat,” or apartment buildings. On February...
