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...
299 West 12th Street...
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Circa 1931 // ARCHITECT: Emery Roth // BUILDER: Bing & Bing Cons. Co. This may be the most expensive prewar apartment building downtown, but in a nod to the less stuffy world of Greenwich Village, this building is a condo rather than a coop. As such, unlike a coop where you...
302 West 12th Street...
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Circa 1931 // ARCHITECT: Boak & Paris // BUILDER: Bing & Bing Cons. Co. This is one of the most prestigious apartment buildings in New York below 42nd Street — and a rare prewar condo to boot. Facing Abingdon Square, this is part of a group of Bing & Bing...
59 West 12th Street
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Circa 1931 // ARCHITECT: Emery Roth // BUILDER: Bing & Bing Cons. Co. This is one of the important downtown prewar buildings that have had an outsized impact on Greenwich Village, the result of a collaboration between the Bing Brothers and Emery Roth. Designed with an...
40-50 East 10th Stre...
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Circa 1929 // ARCHITECT: Helmle, Corbett & Harrison Located in the heart of Greenwich Village, on lovely tree-lined 10th Street, this building truly stands out for its reserved elegance. Occupying an exceptionally long site of 275 feet, the facade is comprised of a two-story...
29-45 East 9th Stree...
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Circa 1924 // ARCHITECT: Helmle & Corbett // BUILDER: Sailors Snug Harbor I have always been enchanted by this small three-building complex. The most striking feature of the facades is without doubt the unusual fenestration. There are banks of double-height windows with...
45 Gramercy Park Nor...
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Circa 1929 // ARCHITECT: G.A. & H. Boehm // BUILDER: Bing & Bing Construction Corp. This building is a sleeper, insofar as it has such a restrained exterior as to mask what lies behind. I don’t think the facade was enhanced by the window replacement, although the...
40 Fifth Avenue at W...
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Circa 1929 // ARCHITECT: Van Wart & Wein // BUILDER: Calvin Morris Corp. There are few really impressive buildings downtown from the 1920s and 1930s. Most middle and upper class residential development was already focused north of 59th street by this period. 40 Fifth Avenue...