2 1902
300 West 38 Street at Eighth Avenue
Originally a residential hotel, now commercial, Alfred N. Cohen developer. Block 761 Lot 39, plate 65 in the 1934 Manhattan Land Book published by G. W. Bromley & Company.
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214 Riverside Drive at 92 Street, Chatillon
Units were subdivided and later the building was rejuvenated. Block 1252 Lot 75 Bromley plate 96.
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2171 Broadway at 77 Street, Belleclaire
Residential hotel, Albert Saxe developer, restored. Block 1168 Lot 56 Bromley plate 90. Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University has 19 original drawings.
610–612 West 136 Street, near Broadway, River View Court
Bing & Bing developer, Roth designed only the façade. Block 2002 Lot 39 Bromley plate 149.
35 Orange Street aka 76 Hicks Street, Brooklyn Heights
Block 220 Lot 16, E. Belcher Hyde atlas page 93 of 1929 Volume 1.
1009 Park Avenue, near 85 Street
Mott B. Schmidt associated architect, Leo S. Bing developer. Block 1513 Lot 70 Bromley plate 114. nb 427–1923.
140 East 46 Street, at Lexington Avenue, Guilford
Extant, 11 stories, 4 elevators. Block 1300 Lot 50 Bromley plate 73. Filed under nb 443–1922 as a 15-story hotel for Hartwood Holding Company and not built and then filed under nb 169–1923 as an 11-story apartment building for Malu Holding Company as built. Avery Library has 29 drawings, apparently for the second iteration, plus one typical floor plan of an earlier date.
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325 West 45 Street, near Eighth Avenue, Whitby 10 stories, 3 elevators. Block 1036 Lot 14 Bromley plate 71. nb 547–1923. Avery Library has 24 drawings. The original tower Roth designed to hide the water tank has been removed.
435 East 57 Street, near Sutton Place
William Guthman developer. Block 1369 Lot 12 Bromley plate 85. Filed under nb 313–1926. Projected cost $600,000. Avery Library has 16 drawings.
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10 Sheridan Square, near Seventh Avenue, Shenandoah
Bing & Bing developer. Block 592 Lot 40 Bromley plate 35. Originally filed as 80 Grove Street and 139–141 Washington Place under nb 378–1928 for a 3-story store and hotel. Avery Library has 13 sheets.
28 East 10 Street, at University Place, Devonshire
Originally a rental, renovated and converted to condominiums in 2010. Block 561 Lot 5 Bromley plate 30. Filed as nb 261–1927 for Harry A. Hyman developer. Avery Library has 8 drawings.
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480 Park Avenue, at 58 Street
Sam Minskoff developer, extant co-op. Block 1294 Lot 27 Bromley plate 84. Avery Library has 18 drawings.
121 1929
225 East 73 Street, near Second Avenue, Eastgate
Originally East Village, Bing & Bing developer. Block 1428 Lot 13 Bromley plate 111. Filed under nb 668–1929 for William Guthman. Avery Library has 7 drawings.
235 East 73 Street, near Second Avenue, Eastgate
Originally East Village, Bing & Bing developer. Block 1428 Lot 17 Bromley plate 111.
220 East 73 Street, near Second Avenue, Eastgate
Originally East Village, Bing & Bing developer. Block 1427 Lot 34 Bromley plate 111. nb 669-1929.
230 East 73 Street, near Second Avenue, Eastgate
Originally East Village, Bing & Bing developer. Block 1427 Lot 30 Bromley plate 111.
300 West 23 Street, at Eighth Avenue, Chelsea Manor Co-op, Arthur Greenb aum developer. Block 740 Lot 48 Bromley plate 48. Avery Library has 26 drawings.
160 Central Park South, near Seventh Avenue, Essex House
Through to 153–167 West 58 Street. Block 1011 Lot 5 Bromley plate 83. First filed as a 19-story apartment building at a projected cost of $4 million under nb 502–1928 for Abraham Lefcourt developer but not built . Then filed as a 29-story hotel at a projected cost of $1.5 million under nb 223–1929 (shown here), also for Abraham Lefcourt and also not built . Ultimately, Lefcourt built the existing Essex House as designed by architect Frank Grad, completing it in 1931 but losing it in bankruptcy in 1932.
320 Central Park West, at 92 Street, Ardsley
Co-op, Hyman Kaufman developer. Block 1205 Lot 34 Bromley plate 97. Avery Library has 71 drawings. Prior building was Ardsley Hall.
275 Central Park West, at 88 Street
Louis E. Kleban developer. Block 1201 Lot 34 Bromley plate 95. Avery Library has 19 drawings.
20 Park Avenue, at 35 Street
Extant rental, Saul Lautenberg developer. Block 865 Lot 32 Bromley plate 61. Avery Library has 74 drawings.
140 Riverside Drive, 86/87 Streets, Normandy
Extant co-op. Block 1248 Lot 1 Bromley plate 94. Avery Library has 87 drawings.
158-13, 159-00, and 159-34 Riverside Drive West, north from West 158 Street to north of 160 Street, River Arts Apartments
Edward J. Haggarty developer. Block 2135 Lot 60 Bromley plate 163. 6-story apartments with elevators and a garage under the southernmost section. Site of the 19-room brick house built in the late 1860s by William A. Wheelock, President of the Erie Railroad. At the time of the house’s demolition in 1937 it had been the home for 34 years of John Jarmon, formerly a theatrical producer who built and operated theaters in New York and elsewhere. By then, his wife Lillie Tyson was long dead and he was an aged recluse, attended by a deaf-mute and other servants.
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Andrew Alpern (b. 1938) is a native New Yorker whose lifetime interest in the city’s apartment buildings as an architectural historian has yielded seven books about them, plus five other books on architecture and the law. He is also an architect and an attorney with an architecture degree from Columbia University and a law degree from Yeshiva University. Alpern has also published scores of articles about historic architecture and particular buildings. He donated to the Columbia University Libraries his 50-year archive of the work of writer/artist Edward Gorey, and his 50-year collection of architectural drawing instruments, which have been made obsolete by computer drafting.
Steven Ruttenbaum (1945–1989) was born in Denver, Colorado, graduated Cum Laude from the University of Colorado, and received an M.A. in American History from the University of Wisconsin. He was an architectural historian who served on the President’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and on the American Institute of Architects’ Historic Resources Committee. Articles of his were published in Preservation News, in Colonial Homes, and in Metropolis.
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