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(Former) Colored School No.4 Designation Report

Date Published:

2023-05-23

Description:

A three-story school building built 1849-50 by the Public-School Society of New York City and used by African American students and teachers from 1860 to 1894.

Agency:

Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)

Subject(s):

Landmarks, Buildings, and Manhattan

Report Type:

Other
935 St. Nicholas Avenue Building Designation Report

Date Published:

2023-06-27

Description:

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.

Agency:

Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)

Subject(s):

Manhattan, Landmarks, and Buildings

Report Type:

Other
Hotel Cecil & Minton's Playhouse Building Designation Report

Date Published:

2023-06-27

Description:

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.

Agency:

Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)

Subject(s):

Manhattan, Landmarks, and Buildings

Report Type:

Other
Julius' Bar Building Designation Report

Date Published:

2022-12-06

Description:

The site of the April 21, 1966 “Sip-In” protesting and publicizing anti-gay discrimination in bars and other public places, the Julius’ Bar Building is New York City’s most significant site of pre-Stonewall LGBTQ+-rights activism.

Agency:

Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)

Subject(s):

Manhattan, Landmarks, and Buildings

Report Type:

Other