Circa ?  // ARCHITECT: Emery Roth   Practically next door to where I live — and I drool over this building every morning whilst walking the dogs — 580 WEA is a truly sweet, little building. It has kept most, if not all, of its original casement windows. Most buildings from this era...

Circa 1925  //  ARCHITECT: Schwartz & Gross   This building makes a very impressive statement, inside and out. The three-story stone base and the very close color-match of the yellow brick on the rest of the building gives an illusion of an all-stone building. All-stone buildings...

Circa 1923  //  ARCHITECT: Gaetan Ajello   I like the way Ajello segments the facade of this building all the way up to the 6th floor, with stone courses, window surrounds and Juliet balconies. Ajello always signs his buildings on the exterior with a small block of stone crediting him...

Circa 1925 // ARCHITECT: Rosario Candela // BUILDER: Ralph Ciluzzi   I walk by this building every day, and I would live here in a heart-beat. This particular block is always perfectly clean, and all five buildings are very well kept, including the pair of “holdout” townhouses that...

Circa 1911 // ARCHITECT: George & Edward Blum I walk my dogs past this building every day, and it is very impressive, especially the recessed entrance, which has a magnificent leaded glass wall. But it is really the floor plan that is amazing — one of the most unique buildings in the...