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Date Published:: 2024-03-05
Description:: 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.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Buildings, Landmarks, and Bronx
Report Type:: Other

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

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

Date Published:: 2023-06-13
Description:: 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
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Landmarks, Bronx, and Buildings
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2023-06-13
Description:: Designed by notable New York architects Herts & Tallant and built in 1908 prior to the adoption of the standardized Model Fire House Plan, the Engine Company 88/ Ladder Company 38 Firehouse is a rare example of the firm’s work in civic architecture and the only known example of Prairie School- in NY
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Buildings, Bronx, and Landmarks
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2023-06-13
Description:: This architecturally significant Italian Renaissance Revival-style building, designed by Frank J. Helmle in 1913, served as the Bronx Central Office of the FDNY’s Fire Alarm Telegraph Bureau beginning in 1923 and continues to play an active role in fire communication in the Bronx.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Buildings, Bronx, and Landmarks
Report Type:: Other

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

Date Published:: 2022-12-06
Description:: Designed in the Medieval Revival style by William H. Gompert in 1924-25, with Art Deco-style features by his successor Walter C. Martin, this 1931-32 secondary school is one of the most impressive public structures in The Bronx.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Landmarks, Bronx, and Buildings
Report Type:: Other

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

Date Published:: 2022-11-22
Description:: A Renaissance Revival-style row house designed by Axel Hedman in 1908 that has served since 1991 as the headquarters of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the nation’s oldest and largest collection of lesbian-related historical material.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Landmarks, Brooklyn, and Buildings
Report Type:: Other

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