This four-story building was designed in 1870 as a school for St. Ann’s Church by the well-know architect Napoleon LeBrun, who later became the official architect of the NYFD. It housed what was once the city's leading civil service school. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This three-story Beaux-Arts building was designed in 1903 by architects Jardine, Kent & Jardine as an auction mart for horses and then automobiles. The part of the building facing East 12th Street dates to 1890. 126-128 East 13th Street housed a vocational school for women during World War II and was the studio for over a quarter century of noted artist Frank Stella. It was saved from planned demolition. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The four-story rowhouse at 64 Third Avenue was likely built for John B. Corlier in 1838-39. The adjacent four-story brick building at 122-124 East 11th Street was probably constructed at the same time for Smith & Ely. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story Greek Revival rowhouse was built in 1847-48 for Elias Brevoort. Along with 102 Fourth Avenue it is the sole survivor of a row of at least eight such houses which once lined this section of Fourth Avenue. It was also the home of a prominent Book Row seller featuring titles on mathematics, philosophy, science, and sexology. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Originally two separate lots, the buildings at 105-109 Third Avenue have been combined. The larger Neo-Grec Pre-Law tenement building was constructed in 1879 by architect M. Fornachen for by P.J. Seiler or R. Stuyvesant (according to different sources). The smaller building was constructed in 1837 for William Stone as a Federal style rowhouse. Together these combined buildings house the flagship store for Kiehl’s Since 1851, founded by first generation German-American John Kiehl. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This three-story brick building was erected in 1906 by architect L. Gilles for Luder Reinken. It was the home of a noted sculptor and housed one of the Tenth Street Galleries, which participated in the emergence of the underground film scene. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Originally two separate lots, the buildings at 105-109 Third Avenue have been combined. The larger Neo-Grec Pre-Law tenement building was constructed in 1879 by architect M. Fornachen for by P.J. Seiler or R. Stuyvesant (according to different sources). The smaller building was constructed in 1837 for William Stone as a Federal style rowhouse. Together these combined buildings house the flagship store for Kiehl’s Since 1851, founded by first generation German-American John Kiehl. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Multiple innovators in the field of commerce were located here, once the center of commerce in New York, along with the headquarters of several prominent businesses. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This six-story building was constructed by Moore and Hutchins in 1951-52. One of the most outstanding examples of contextual, historicist architecture of its time, it houses Grace Church School with 86 Fourth Avenue and is part of the Grace Church individual NYC landmark designated in 1966. Multiple Book Row sellers were located at this site before the current building was erected. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was constructed in the Greek Revival Style in 1844-45 as a private residence by Peter Stuyvesant, a direct descendant of the last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam. It later became the home and studio of famed Dutch-American abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning. In the 1940s, Selma Hortense Burke lived and worked. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This rowhouse was constructed in 1835-39 as a single-family house for Caleb Bartlett. The building is among the oldest in the area and represents the earliest wave of urban development here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story brick rowhouse was built in 1839 for Caleb Bartlett. Until 2016, this building housed the New York Central Art Supply, frequented by a long list of renowned artists. James T. Lee, the grandfather of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, also lived in this building. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This five-story brick building was constructed in 1853 for Doctor Parker. For many years this building was the home of the Pageant Book and Print Shop, one of the last of the Book Row sellers. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story building was constructed pre-1864. Stripped of its original facade, it has minimal design except at the ground level entrance, which has a modern metallic design surrounded by polished stone.

Webster Hall was designed by Charles Rentz, Jr. in the Queen Anne style in 1886 with an annex from 1892. As a gathering spot for nearly a century and a half, it has been the scene of an extraordinary array of history in terms of left wing, progressive, and labor organizing; early LGBTQ gatherings; and musical recordings and performances. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This tan five-story brick building, which shows characteristics of the Art Deco style, was designed by architect William Whitehill for the New York Edison Company in 1922. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story Greek Revival row house was built in 1847-48 by Henry Brevoort, though Mrs. Renwick became the owner in 1848. Along with 100 Fourth Avenue it is the sole survivor of a row of at least eight such houses which once lined this section of Fourth Avenue. It was the home of a famed Book Row seller, as well as a renowned photographer who documented African American life and subjects, in addition to leftist/labor themes. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story brick building was designed by Benjamin E. Lowe in 1889 in the Romanesque Revival style. Artist Robert Indiana had a studio here, the influential avant-garde Reuben Gallery was located here, Grove Press owner Barney Rosset lived here for decades until his death, and a prominent Book Row seller was also located at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story brick rowhouse was built in 1839 for A. Thompson. A German American illustrator and a family of famed vaudeville performers lived here.

This three-story building was once two separate structures. Though they were likely constructed in the 19th century, they have since been given a complete 20th-century makeover. A famous shop was formerly located here, and was photographed by a number of prominent photographers.

Designed by Renwick, Aspinwall, & Tucker, this seven-story loft building was constructed in 1905 in the neo-Classical style. The building was originally owned by Ida S. Bruch, daughter of William Schlemmer of the notable hardware company Hammacher & Schlemmer. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This red painted brick rowhouse was constructed in 1854 for J. Butler. It served as a meeting house for the Transport Workers Union. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This three-story brick building was constructed in 1845 on land owned by the Stuyvesant Family. One of the most popular athletes in the United States in the late nineteenth century later opened a sporting club here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This fifteen-story building is the New School’s first dormitory, completed in 1989 by architect Prentice Chan Ohlhausen.

This eight-story loft building was designed in 1898 by architect William J. Dilthey for McKinney & Von Schow. The building features a strong classical vocabulary in its decorative elements, including a rusticated second floor and paired arched windows at the sixth and eighth floors. It was the home of a Book Row seller, and an influential Italian anti-Fascist publication founded and published by a prominent member of the Democratic Socialist Party of Italy. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This five-story loft building with modern cladding was designed by architect Isidore Fried in 1906. It housed several influential galleries which were part of the 10th Street Galleries of the 1950s.

This five-story building was constructed as a single-family rowhouse in 1849-50 for Lorenzo D. Burdett. It housed the record shop Footlight Records, and a Puerto Rican club, cafe, theater, and gallery. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This Old Law tenement was built by John P. Schuchman, a pillar in the neighborhood’s German-American community and a member of the Tenement House Committee in the 1890s. The building was designed by notable architect John G. Prague and contained amenities for residents not typical of and not yet required for tenements. It later housed a legendary shop selling vintage fashion magazines and photographs. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Two buildings were constructed at this site in 1853 by George Law, and there is evidence they have operated as a theater since at least the 1920s. Since 1973, the ground floor of this building has been home to the Classic Stage Company, one of New York’s oldest continuously operating Off Broadway theaters. A lithographer who produced piano sheet music was also located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

These five-story, Neo-Grec Old Law tenements were built in 1881 by architect Henry J. Dudley for Samuel Simmons and maintain their original brownstone Neo Grec detail. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story rowhouse was built in 1838-39 for James E. Hills. It is among the oldest surviving structures in the area built as a house, and was the site of one of the largest and most prominent tailoring establishments on Third Avenue in the 19th century. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was originally constructed in the mid-19th century and altered in 1927 to the designs of architect Sidney Daub. It was the home of a prominent Book Row seller whose customers included Oklahoma’s first Senator Thomas Pryor Gore, Theodore Dreiser, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, and Ethel Barrymore. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This five-story industrial building was constructed in 1837-39 for Ebenezer Pray and housed a piano factory. It was later combined with 102 Third Avenue, also built by Pray in 1837-39. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

An incredible array of sites in the area are connected to the great artists and art movements of the last century and a half. In the mid-20th century, this area was ground zero for the New York School of artists, who shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This corner lot consists of a one story, red brick commercial building with metal paned windows, likely constructed in 1984. A prominent Book Row seller operated out of the building formerly located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This almost perfectly intact thirteen-story terra cotta-covered loft building was designed and constructed by Starrett & Van Vleck in 1919 to house the International Tailoring Company. Herman Melville lived in a now-demolished townhouse at this location, during which time he began writing Moby Dick. Book Row sellers operated out of the current and former buildings at this site, and a gallery was located here in the 1970s. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

These five-story Old Law tenements were constructed in 1881 by architect Henry J. Dudley for Samuel Simmons. Although stripped of their original brownstone Neo Grec detail, they still retain their original fenestration. A passenger who perished in the General Slocum disaster lived here, the "King of Greenwich Village Bohemians" died here, and a pioneer army-navy store was also located at this address.

Grace Church was built in 1846-47 by famed architect James Renwick, Jr and designated an individual NYC landmark in 1966. The immensely popular Fleischmann’s Model Vienna Bakery, from which the term “breadline” originates, was once located on part of this lot. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This three-story building consists of two consolidated lots that were constructed simultaneously in 1835-36 in the Federal Style for John Coddington. These simple structures are the oldest in the area and represent the earliest wave of urban development here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The Gothic Revival buildings at 92-98 Fourth Avenue were designated individual NYC landmarks in 1977. No. 92 was built in 1902 as the Grace Church clergy house by the architectural firm of Heins & LaFarge. Grace Memorial House at No. 94-96 was built in 1882-83 and designed by James Renwick, Jr. No. 98 was built 1906-07 and designed by Renwick, Aspinwall & Tucker in the Gothic Revival style within the Tudor tradition. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This now-seven-story neo-Classical style building was owned and constructed by the New York Edison Company, today known as Con Edison, in 1904. It served as an electric transformer and distributing station. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was originally constructed c. 1837 as a three-story brick rowhouse with a raised basement for Samuel Secor. As of 2012, the brick was painted and refaced with Neo-Grec detailing, which was then refaced with modern cladding. During the mid-20th century, the building housed the Tribal Arts Gallery and Off-Bowery Theater. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The three-story Beaux-Arts building at 126-128 East 13th Street was designed in 1903 by architects Jardine, Kent & Jardine as an auction mart for horses and then automobiles. The part of the building facing East 12th Street dates to 1890. No. 126-128 housed a vocational school for women during World War II and was the studio for over a quarter century of noted artist Frank Stella. It was saved from planned demolition. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

88 Fourth Avenue was erected in 1902 as the Grace Church Choir School. It was designed with Gothic motifs by the architectural firm of Heins and LaFarge, winners of the original competition for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Both No. 88 and 90 are part of the Grace Church individual NYC landmark designated in 1966. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This site originally held a two-story stable, built as early as 1868. It appears that three more stories were added in 1893. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The two-story Cooper Station Post Office was designed by Louis A. Simon in 1936-37 for the Works Progress Administration in a Classical Revival/Art Moderne style. The Seinfeld character Newman is supposed to have worked here, and a number of Book Row sellers were housed in buildings previously located at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This five-story mixed-use, red-brick building was constructed in 1837-39 by Ebenezer Pray. It was later combined with 102 Third Avenue, also built by Pray in 1837-39, and housed a piano factory. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Built in 1863 for David Glass, this four-story pre-law tenement retains its historic cast-iron storefront. The building became a feature of Kleindeutschland (“Little Germany”) when it was bought by William and George Schade, both of German descent, around the turn of the century. The building’s owner Bill Curry has suggested that the Herter Brothers, prominent American furniture makers of the late 19th century, might have had a workroom in the building’s basement. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This five-story loft building, with a later one-story rooftop addition, was constructed in 1888 by David and John Jardine. The architects also designed the landmarked former Van Tassel & Kearney Horse Auction Mart next door. A cast-iron base adorns the building, which is designed in the Romanesque Revival style. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This area was a center of theater and home to many experimental and innovative theaters, large and small, several of which still survive to this day. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This apartment building was constructed in 2006 for the 110-112 Third Avenue Realty Corporation by architect Greenberg Farrow. It replaced the Variety Theatre, a 1914 Nickelodeon, moving picture, and Off-Broadway theater, which was demolished despite Village Preservation’s campaign to save it. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This large, x-shaped apartment building was constructed in 1957 as The Greenwich Arms by architect H.I. Feldman for the East 10th Street Corporation. A number of Book Row sellers were located at buildings previously at this site, as well as the building currently here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This three-story with raised basement Greek Revival rowhouse was built in 1837-39 for Charles Devoe. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eight-story white brick and stone neo-Classical building was constructed in 1897 by architects Neville & Bagge for Jno. K. Todd. It housed clothing manufacturers, the Oakland Chemical Company, multiple publishing companies, a Book Row seller, and “the Library of Science.” Among the publishers was one which re-published a seminal work touted as one of the classics in the 20th century which provided a compelling depiction of Jewish immigrant life on the Lower East Side. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

These three four-story rowhouses were built between 1837 and 1839 for Thorp Harris in the Greek Revival style. The simple structures are among the oldest in the area and represent the earliest wave of urban development here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story Gothic Revival structure was built in 1912 to the designs of the firm of Renwick, Aspinwall, and Tucker, the successor firm to James Renwick Jr.’s. Along with 84 Fourth Avenue, it houses Grace Church School and is part of the Grace Church individual NYC landmark designated in 1966. A prominent Book Row seller was located at a previous building at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This five-story loft building, with a later one-story rooftop addition, was constructed in 1888 by David and John Jardine. The architects also designed the landmarked former Van Tassel & Kearney Horse Auction Mart next door. A cast-iron base adorns the building, which is designed in the Romanesque Revival style. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This lot is made up of multiple combined buildings. The 5-story brick and terra cotta building at 87-91 Third Avenue combined two Pre-Law tenements, located at 91 and 89 Third Avenue, with a new building at 87 Third Avenue in 1902. These tenements were originally owned by A.C. Gale & Company, and by 1902 were owned by the trustees of the Hamilton Fish Estate. The newly conjoined three buildings were designed in the English neo-Classical style by Myron E. Evans of Ballantyne & Evans Architects. The adjacent now-adjoining building at 201-213 East 12th Street was constructed c. 1860 for industrial use. As early as 1860 a piano factory was located here. Trow’s Directory Printing and Book Binding Company, which was responsible for printing and binding the New York City Directories, was located in both the Third Avenue and East 12th Street buildings. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

In 2019, a ten-story concrete residential building was constructed here, replacing a one-story commercial building. The structure was designed by SBLM Architects for Nava Partners, LLC. A number of prominent Book Row sellers were located at buildings previously at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story mixed use rowhouse with a red brick facade was built in 1854 for J. Butler. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eight-story Renaissance Revival stone loft building was constructed around 1897 for Charles B. and John E. Sagar. Charles Sagar was also the architect. A series of Book Row sellers have operated out of the current and previous buildings. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 26-story mega-dorm was built for NYU by Michael Zenreich Architects in 2009. The church tower at this site is the sole remnant of one of the few city structures to serve as a house of worship for the Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish faiths. The funeral mass for Andy Warhol film “superstar” Jackie Curtis was held at the church, which Village Preservation tried to save from demolition. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This three-story with raised basement Greek Revival rowhouse was built in 1837-39 for Ebenezer Pray. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This five-story tenement with stores was designed in 1886 by James M. Farnsworth for Samuel Thorne. The unusual red brick building with florid naturalistic ornament housed the March Gallery in the late 1950s, which had a large impact on the mid-20th century art scene. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Several notable musicians and music venues found a home in this area, from jazz to punk, blues to folk. Listen to a playlist featuring a selection of songs by some of the amazing artists connected to this neighborhood. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This is currently an outdoor recreation area owned by Grace Church School.

This four-story pre-law tenement was built c. 1875 in the neo-Grec style. Renowned pianist and composer Randy Weston lived here, and scenes from the film Taxi Driver were shot here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Known as Stewart House, this 21-story mid-century modern apartment building was constructed in 1960 and designed by Robert and Sylvan Bien. This structure occupies the entire block, previously occupied by the A.T. Stewart Department Store, built in 1862. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was constructed in 1837-39 for Ebenezer Pray, and was heavily altered with a refaced facade and rooftop addition in 2009-12. By 1899, it had been converted into lofts and a concert hall on the ground floor, and throughout the 20th century housed a long list of live production and film theater companies. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.