The stunning reception room and banking hall for the Irving Trust and Bank Company, this unusual and elaborately tiled space, completed
in 1931, represents the work of two masters: architect Ralph Walker and muralist Hildreth Meière.
The Frederick Douglass Memorial Park is the only extant, non-sectarian cemetery in New York City that was founded by and for African Americans at a time when discrimination and segregation excluded them from other cemeteries.
Designed by McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin for the Brooklyn Edison Company and built between 1922-1926, this highly visible Renaissance Revival style building is a notable landmark in the civic and commercial center of Brooklyn.
A French Renaissance Revival style skyscraper designed by Warren & Wetmore in 1920-22. It was one of the first skyscrapers in this section of Fifth Avenue and one of the earliest buildings to conform to the groundbreaking 1916 Building Zone Resolution.
The Old Croton Aqueduct Walk is a linear park located on top of a historic water system constructed between 1837 and 1842 to provide water to the city. The walk has been a beloved open space for residents since the 19th century.
The New York Public Library, Tremont Branch, designed by the prominent architectural firm of Carrère and Hastings, opened in 1905 is an impressively intact Carnegie library that has been a significant part of the community since its construction.
935 St. Nicholas Avenue, an architecturally distinct early 20th-century Neo-Gothic Revival style apartment building in the Washington Heights neighborhood, was the well-established home to jazz trailblazers, Duke Ellington, and
Noble Sissle, each for over 20 years.
The Renaissance Revival-style Hotel Cecil was home to Minton’s Playhouse, the legendary nightclub where the pivotal style “bebop” emerged and flourished in the 1940s, redefining jazz and American music.
Designed by George Keister and developed by George M. Cohan, this Italian Renaissance Revival-style theater and commercial building featured Broadway acts in its early “Subway Circuit” years before hosting a succession of
clubs that were central to the Bronx’s innovative and influential Latin music
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