2345 Broadway

2345 Broadway

2345 Broadway View of 2345 Broadway taken from north; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive Euclid Hall by Tom Miller In 1900 wealthy developer Le Grand K. Pettit hired the architectural firm of Hill & Turner to design a sprawling, seven-story apartment building that would engulf the western Broadway block front from 85th to 86th Streets. ...
250 West 91st Street

250 West 91st Street

250 West 91st Street View of 250 West 91st Street taken from north; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Versailles by Tom Miller Builders and real estate developers William Gunn and Andrew Grant, partners in Gunn & Grant, were erecting apartment buildings on the Upper West Side at a blinding rate in the 1890’s.  On September 24,...
LW! loses Appeal

LW! loses Appeal

#votersagainstsupertalls, 50 West 66th Street, Advocacy, CENTRAL dARK

Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, First Judicial Department rules against the community on 50 West 66th. The brief decision is HERE.  The court upheld the May 6, 2021 decision by Justice Rakower. LW! has been following the development of 50 West 66th Street since an August 2014 report in The Real Deal. Based on our...
246 West 80th Street

246 West 80th Street

246 West 80th Street View of 246 West 80th Street taken from northeast; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Broadway Studio Building by Tom Miller James Boorman Johnson’s concept of erecting a building solely to house the studios of artists in 1857 was groundbreaking.  His Tenth Street Studios Building set the stage for...
2200 Broadway

2200 Broadway

2200 Broadway View of 2200 Broadway taken from southwest; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Sanford and The Rexford Apartments by Tom Miller In May 1913 Paterno Brothers, Inc. acquired the blockfront on the east side of Broadway, between 78th and 79th Streets from Harry Barnes Newberry and Alfred Barnes.  Designed by the firm Schwartz &...