Circa 1916  //  ARCHITECT: Robert T. Lyons  //  BUILDER: Bing & Bing Cons. Co.   A few weeks back, I posted about “house architects — i.e. the on-staff architects of major builder-developers in the prewar era. In the case of Bing & Bing, they worked with several prominent...

Circa 1929 // ARCHITECT: Emery Roth // BUILDER: Bing & Bing Cons. Co.   This set of six 11-story coop buildings takes up much of the north and south sides of this stretch of 73rd Street between Second & Third Avenues. Although somewhat unremarkable from the exterior, each...

Circa 1930  //  ARCHITECT: DePace & Juster  //  BUILDER: Samuel Silver   This is one of Park Avenue’s premier full-service cooperative buildings. Located at the intersection of 89th Street — and I think it is, also, one of the most handsome structures on the Avenue. Rising...

Circa 1905  //  ARCHITECT: Schwartz & Gross  //  BUILDER: Undetermined   Schwartz and Gross who designed these two buildings, were amongst the most prolific of all the architects working in the residential field in NYC during the first half of the 20th Century. Until now, most of...

During the prewar era there were obviously very many developers operating in New York City, and many were quite prolific. Like today, the major players in New York real estate had a degree of fame, and with it, name recognition. One of the best known was the firm of Bing & Bing. In a...

    Edwardian Era (1900 -1919)   During the first and into the second decades of the 20th century, the “Edwardian Era” (named for Queen Victoria’s son and heir, King Edward VIII), economic and technological forces together led to more apartment building...

Circa 1929-1931  //  ARCHITECT: Farrar & Watmaugh  //  BUILDER: Henry Mandel   London Terrace is a West Chelsea landmark taking up a full block bordered by 23rd & 24th Streets, Ninth to Tenth Avenues. This location has only grown more desirable over the last decade with the...

I’m very excited and flattered to have been featured in the New York Daily News by real estate writer Jason...

Circa 1928  //  ARCHITECT: Leonard Cox & Arthur Holden Assoc.  //  BUILDER: John K. Turton & Co., Inc.   Relatively uneventful from the outside, this building is a star on the inside! 333 E. 57th Street is set back a few feet behind the lot-line along East 57th Street to...

Circa 1925  //  ARCHITECT: Sugarman & Berger  //  BUILDER: Golding Brothers   I made a very brief post about this building a few months back, but I did not provide a great deal of detail at the time. Just this past week, however, I had the pleasure of showing a customer a Classic...