This nine-story buff brick and stone Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1902-04 by Sass & Smallheiser for the Middleboro and Master Builders Realty Company. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

A new building permit for 771-785 Broadway/63-67 East 9th Street/60-62 East 10th Street was filed in 1952. A significant 19th century Civil War photographer, who took a portrait for the ascendant presidential hopeful Abraham Lincoln, had a studio at a now-demolished building at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 8-story commercial loft building was built in three stages — in 1892 by architect R.H. Robertson, with additions in 1907 and 1915. It was built as the first American headquarters of prestigious publishers Macmillan Co. It later housed Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, the first art cinema house in America, and the first studio of “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham. A beloved Book Row seller was located here as well. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

74 University Place/30-36 East 11th Street was constructed as part of a row of c. 1843-44, five-story Greek Revival rowhouses erected for John Morse. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This largely intact grand Italianate style brownstone-fronted rowhouse was constructed c. 1857-58 for the prominent businessman and philanthropist John Schermerhorn Bussing. Designers Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent previously lived here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was originally erected c. 1846-47 for Peter Lorillard Jr. It was built as a four-story Greek Revival rowhouse, but the top two floors were demolished in 1938.

This five-story masonry building was constructed as two separate buildings c. 1852-53 for Thomas McKie. In 1967 the buildings were combined and given a new facade.

This building was originally constructed as a three-story Greek Revival row house for owner Masterton & Smith in 1841-42. In 1939 it was reduced to one story, and in 2009 altered to eight stories. This was the final location of the renowned Cedar Tavern, a central gathering spot for the New York School of writers and artists. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story plus raised basement Italianate style rowhouse was built c. 1847-48 for William Bailey. The house’s façade has been stuccoed, but it retains its Italianate doorway, cornice, and elaborate stoop and areaway ironwork. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This ten-story Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1903 for builder Jeremiah C. Lyons and designed by Buchman & Fox. The publishing house Jacobsen Publishing was located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was constructed in 1898 as a firehouse by architect Horgan & Slattery for the City of New York. Since 1963 it has been the home of Cinema Village, the oldest continuously operating art house cinema in New York City. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story Romanesque Revival style loft building was designed by Richard Berger in 1891. It was originally commissioned by fur manufacturers Louis and Samuel Sachs, and was later home to several publishing houses. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 12-story Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1906 by George Anderson for E.J. Galway Building Co. The building is clad in ashlar stone and has minimal classical decorative elements.

Among the many industries which this area played a significant role in shaping and transforming was photography. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This ten-story, two bay Beaux Arts style structure was constructed in 1902 by architect Frederick C. Browne for Philip Braender. It was home to several dance studios and a printer started by a notable

This building was constructed in 1981-85 by architect John Klausz & Seymour Churgin for Ben Hakimian.

This twelve-story brick and stone apartment building was designed by Sugarman and Berger in 1929. The firm designed several landmarked buildings throughout Manhattan, as well as the New Yorker Hotel. Renowned Egyptologist, author, and curator William C. Hayes lived here until his death in 1963. He worked as a consultant on Cecil B. DeMille’s lucrative final film The Ten Commandments. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story Neo-Classical style loft building was constructed in 1899 by architect Schickel & Ditmars for Samuel Sachs. The German-born William Schickel was the architect of many other notable buildings, including the German Library and Dispensary. This building became home to the first 12-track recording studio in the country. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story building was constructed c. 1851-52 for Benjamin Valentine. The Fourth International Socialist Worker’s Party Bookstore and Samuel Roth’s Book Store were located here. Roth was known best for publishing unauthorized excerpts of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This cast iron building was designed in 1868 in the Italianate/French Second Empire style by architect John Kellum for James McCreery. It was once home to the city’s most elegant department store, James McCreery & Co. Dry Goods, and introduced several important innovations in department storefront sales. It suffered multiple devastating fires over the years, but was saved from demolition by its resilient cast-iron frame and an innovative plan in the early 1970s to convert the building to residences — the first such legal conversion of a manufacturing loft building in New York, which paved the way for hundreds more in its wake. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This complex, the former Hotel Albert, consists of four buildings at 23 East 10th Street/40-52 East 11th Street/65-67 University Place. The first, a set of five-story altered row houses, was designed by James Irving Howard and constructed by Albert Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum also constructed the second building, an eight-story “French Flat” designed by Henry Hardenbergh. Originally used for residential purposes, this building was innovative in its use of apartment house design for middle- or upper-class residents. Buchman & Fox architects designed a twelve-story Beaux-Arts style extension. The final section, a six-story neo-Colonial building, was designed by William L. Bottomly and the firm of Sugarman & Hess. The buildings were constructed in 1875-76, 1881-82, 1903-1904, and 1922-1924, respectively. From the 1880s through the early 1970s, the Hotel played a large role in New York City’s cultural life. During the postwar era, prominent painters, writers, photographers, and musicians found inspiration at the hotel. Queer and African-American artists established communities here, as did radical, Jewish, and working-class organizations such as the Progressive Labor Party. For a brief period, the hotel hosted dramatic productions at the “Albert Theatre.” Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Several sites with noteworthy histories connected to the Civil War were located here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

Several notable preservation battles have taken place in these blocks, in both the recent and more distant past, as great works of architecture or places of historic significance have faced the wrecking ball. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of extant historic buildings south of Union Square.

This 12-story building was constructed in 1929 by architect Seelig & Finkelstein for Charles Fleisher & Morris Rosen. The New York Foundling, one of New York City’s oldest and largest child welfare agencies, opened in 1869 at a now-demolished building at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eleven-story complex was built in 1923 by Harvey Wiley Corbett and Wallace K. Harrison. Classical details, combined with modernist geometric elements, characterize Corbett and Harrison’s architecture as some of the most influential of the mid-20th century. A renowned indie-rock singer and Tony-Award winning playwright called this building home. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This twelve-story structure was constructed as manufacturing lofts in 1908 by renowned architect Schwartz & Gross for the Brevoort Construction Co. Several Trotskyite organizations were located here, and the weekly organ of the Workers Party of the U.S., the New Militant, was published at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This digital tour focuses on one of the most significant recording studios of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which was located here and produced a stunning array of notable recordings over nearly three decades. Listen to a playlist featuring a selection of songs by some of the amazing artists connected to RPM Studios and the south of Union Square neighborhood. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

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Several important figures and innovators in the field of dance were located here, including the "Picasso of Dance." Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This ten-story, two bay Beaux Arts style structure was constructed in 1902 by architect Frederick C. Browne for Philip Braender. It was home to several dance studios and a printer started by a notable

This nine-story loft building was constructed in 1899 by architect Rudolph Mueller for Owen Costello.

The area south of Union Square contains a stunning array of residential and commercial architecture from the 19th through the early 20th century. There is a particularly rich array of late 19th and early 20th-century factory/loft/warehouse architecture, in every style from Italianate to Gothic and Romanesque Revival, Neo-classical, Queen Anne, Victorian, and Byzantine. Work by some of America’s greatest architects, including James Renwick Jr., Henry J. Hardenbergh, Emery Roth, Griffith Thomas, Napoleon LeBrun, Harvey Wiley Corbett, David, and John Jardine, George B. Post, Carrere and Hastings, John Kellum, and Charles Rentz, among others, can be found here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This ten-story neo-Classical building was constructed in 1889 and designed by William C. Hazlett. For at least sixty years, it housed the offices of the Textile Workers Union of America. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This seven-story neo-Classical/Romanesque style loft building was designed in 1894 by Cleverdon & Putzel for Philip Braender. It features richly detailed cast-iron work on the first two floors. Since 1940 the ground floor has housed the family-owned business Seidenberg Antiques. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Louis Korn designed this eight-story loft building in 1897, which combines neo-Renaissance and neo-Romanesque styles. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The St. Denis Hotel was located at this site until it was demolished in 2019. Completed in 1853 by architect and James Renwick, it was one of the grandest hotels in the country, and was frequented by U.S. Presidents and prominent political figures, writers, musicians, inventors, actors, entertainers, artists, publishers, and agitators. It also played a significant role in the city’s African American, women’s, and leftist/labor history. Prior to the hotel’s demolition, Village Preservation and others led a campaign to landmark the building and its surroundings. In 2019 the St. Denis was demolished, with the new office tower replacing it. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Cleverdon & Putzel designed this seven-story Romanesque Revival loft building in 1894. Its bays feature intact cast-iron. In the late 19th century, the building served as a boarding house run by United Hebrew Charities. In the 1970s, it was home to the Film & Dance Theater, as well as the radical Workers Laboratory Theatre. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

A surprising number of innovative housing developments from the late 19th and early 20th centuries can be found here, including several ‘French Flats’ and model tenements. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This two-story building was likely originally constructed as a four-story Greek Revival rowhouse in 1846-47 for Peter Lorillard Jr.. It housed a gallery specializing in photography by gay male artists, including Robert Mapplethorpe, and the influential publishing house Grove Press. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was constructed in 1946 by architect Harrison & Abramovitz for the Fairchild Press, and altered in the early 2000s. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This began as a four story private house built in 1840 with a fifth floor added in 1880 and the two story commercial addition in front added in 1919. It housed one of New York’s most prominent philanthropists of the 19th century who helped establish some of the city’s great institutions, later serving as the home to a family of German immigrant entrepreneurs. The commercial space housed one of the city’s most popular speakeasies, and later a lesbian bar frequented by well-know authors. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This Italianate style rowhouse was built c. 1853 by philanthropist and bibliophile James Lenox for residential use. For generations, it was home to a family that was among the most important American patrons of the arts of the 19th century, and included significant figures in the fields of science, philanthropy, business, and government. In later years it also housed a prominent publisher, bookseller, and artist studios. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This Greek Revival rowhouse was constructed c. 1838-40 by John H. Cornell, believed to be a high-ranking officer at the Mechanic’s Banking Association on Wall Street. It became the residence of N.H. Wolfe, owner of the oldest flour and grain company in New York. A celebrated World War II entertainment venue for GIs was also located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eleven-story building with Romanesque Revival details was constructed in 1925 by Sugarmann & Berger for the 60 University Place Corp. The firm also designed a number of historic and landmarked buildings on the Upper West Side, in Gramercy Park, and in Greenwich Village.

This site was until 2015 the home of the original Bowlmor Lanes, the first bowling alley in what eventually became a chain of upscale bowling alleys that transformed the sport. It was sold for development and demolished, replaced by the 21 story condo tower there today. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Designed by Buchman & Fox, this ten-story Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1903 for builder Jeremiah C. Lyons. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

"The Lancaster", a five-story building was constructed in 1887 in a combination of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. Noted architect James Renwick designed the building along with his partners Aspinwall & Russell, and it is an innovative example of the French Flat middle-class apartment building. Lyric poet Barbara Young is among the building’s prominent residents. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This five-story 1845-47 rowhouse was originally constructed for James Brown and Edward Boonen Graves. It was home to a club which included a who’s who of labor, political, and social reform leaders of the turn of the last century. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This seven-story Renaissance Revival style loft building was constructed in 1895 and designed by Louis Korn. It is noteworthy for its combination of lacy decorative ironwork and robust stone architecture, and was home to two highly significant entities in the history of photography. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story loft building was constructed in 1888 by architect G.A. Schellenger for John Glass & Son. For decades it served as the headquarters and printing plant of the fashion publisher Fairchild Publishing, producer of Women’s Wear Daily (WWD), among other publications. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This ten-story apartment building was constructed in 1929 by architect Charles F. Winkelman for The 42 East 11th St. Hotel Corp. Winkelman was the architect of several buildings in the adjacent Greenwich Village Historic District, including the Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue and the former “Holley Chambers” Apartment Hotel.

This striking 12-story Beaux Arts style office building was constructed in 1912 for publisher George Plimpton. It housed an extraordinary array of civil rights and social justice organizations, philanthropic groups, publishers, and non-governmental organizations. This includes the headquarters of the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organizations, the publishers of the first magazines for an African-American audience and for African-American children, and what would become the American Civil Liberties Union, among many other entities. The building was designated as a New York City Landmark in 2021. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

In spite of massive waves of commercial construction, tenement building, and later hotel and apartment building construction which swept through this neighborhood, the area retains dozens of rowhouses from its early stages of development, dating from the early 1830s to the early 1850s. They range from modest to grand, most in the Greek Revival or Italianate style. Reflecting the vast forces of change which swept through the area, none remained single family houses, taking on new lives housing commerce, unions, theaters, art galleries, and multiple tenants. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

Originally built in 1869-70 as a pair of six- and seven-story loft buildings, the current façade and four-story height of this structure dates to 1958, just before the influential publishing house Grove Press moved here. The original 6-story building at 66-68 University Place, which forms the northern two-thirds of the current building, was built by architect Chapin and builder Stewart & Smith in 1869-70. It originally served as the factory and office of Hazelton Brothers, a piano manufacturing firm, for a half-century. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Some of New York's most prominent and impactful philanthropists, and philanthropic organizations, were located here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This altered Arts & Crafts style rowhouse was built c. 1852 by philanthropist and bibliophile James Lenox. It was the home of congressman, conservationist, and Civil War Unionist Robert B. Roosevelt, as well as the groundbreaking Pearson’s Magazine and bookstore. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 8-story National Registers of Historic Places-listed building was constructed as the headquarters of the prominent publishers Macmillan Co. in 1923-24 by the preeminent architectural firms of Carrere & Hastings and Shreve Lamb & Blake. While here, Macmillan published the Civil War-based Gone With the Wind. It later served as the headquarters of Forbes Magazine and the Forbes Gallery. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Designed by Emery Roth, this thirteen-story residential building at 28 East 10th Street/47-59 University Place is known as Devonshire House and was constructed in 1928. Roth also designed the landmarked El Dorado, Beresford, Normandy, and Oliver Cromwell apartments on the Upper West Side, the St. Moritz and the Ritz in Midtown, and 888 Grand Concourse, as well as the nearby 1 University Place and 59 West 12th Street. A number of renowned actors, an episode of Seinfeld, a "Golden Age" comic book series, a Dutch filmmaker, and a significant NYPL donor are associated with this building. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Designed in 1926 by Sugarman and Berger, this twelve-story residential building features neo-Romanesque and Byzantine style elements. Among its notable residents was the Tony-award winning choreographer and dancer Agnes de Mille. Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City, lived here as well. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 1912, 18-story neo-Renaissance style manufacturing/office building was designed by architect Maynicke & Franke for Henry Corn. The building was home to recording studios that launched the careers of enormously important jazz and blues musicians and to the publisher of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique as well as many other important texts. The building replaced James Lenox’s mansion, which became home to the Lenox Library and the Juilliard School. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

An extraordinary array of significant writers and authors lived or worked here, and great works of literature were produced here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This building was constructed as part of a row of five-story Greek Revival rowhouses erected for John Morse c. 1843-44. This was the home of the union organizer and civil rights advocate David Livingston, a confidante of Martin Luther King Jr., and the noted jazz club Bradley’s. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This largely intact c. 1845-1846 Greek Revival rowhouse was constructed for the prominent businessman and philanthropist John Schermerhorn Bussing. The building was the home of notable artists, filmmakers, and the pro-union composer Marc Blitzstein. It also housed the workrooms and showrooms of a renowned fashion designer, and an archive dedicated to the prominent African American jazz musician Milton Hinton. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story plus raised basement Italianate style rowhouse was built in 1851-52 for Stephen Bursh. Famed abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock and African American music collector Lawrence Gellert both lived here, and a Depression-era Artists and Writers Dinner Club was located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Grove Press, called “the era’s most explosive and influential publishing house” and “the most innovative publisher of the postwar era,” produced incredibly important pieces of 20th century literature while working aggressively and effectively to transform American culture in relation to issues of censorship, sexuality, race, and class. Founded in 1947 on Grove Street in the West Village, Grove Press fully rose to prominence after it was purchased by Barney Rossett in 1951. Over the next decades, an astonishing five extant buildings in the area south of Union Square were home to the Press, its literary magazine the Evergreen Review, and the Press’ Evergreen Theater. A sixth building in the area, 61 Fourth Avenue, served as Rosset’s home from at least 1981 until Rosset’s passing in 2012. For a time, Grove Press’ offices were also located here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This ten-story neo-Classical style loft building was constructed in 1900 by builder Edward Smith for Owen Costello.

This three-story building was constructed c. 1852-53 for Emanuel Schwartz. It was the home of Adolph’s Asti Restaurant, featured in the 1988 movie Big. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This twelve-story neo-Classical style loft building was constructed in 1902 by Goldwin Starrett for the Empire Realty Corporation. Starrett was a partner in the notable architecture firm of Starrett & Van Vleck.

This building was constructed as part of a row of five-story Greek Revival rowhouses erected for John Morse c. 1843-44. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Born James Thomas Harris (1855-1931), in Galway, Ireland Frank Harris was an Irish immigrant who became a naturalized U.S. citizen during his editorship of Pearson’s Magazine, was a noted author, journalist, editor, publisher, and provocateur. His autobiographical My Life and Loves was banned in the United States and Britain for 40 years due to its sexual content. In addition to publishing this and Pearson’s, Harris wrote two books about Shakespeare and biographies of his friends, the playwright George Bernard Shaw and the poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. Wilde, who was found guilty of engaging in acts of “gross indecency” in 1895, became an icon in the emergence of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Harris’ close friendship with Wilde is portrayed in Moises Kaufman’s Gross Indecencies: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, as well as several other literary portrayals of Wilde’s life.

This eight-story neo-Classical/Romanesque Revival style loft building was constructed in 1898 by Farnsworth & Miller for Frank Brettell.

The area is home to a number of significant sites to the history of film, including a large number of current and former movie houses, film producers, and organizations which shaped the course of film history in the United States. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This contemporary building was constructed in 2010-11 by Isaac & Stern Architects for the 791 Broadway LLC. The previous four-story building, a 19th century rowhouse, was demolished in 2009.

This area was home to several sites connected to significant developments in African American history, including civil rights leaders and organizations, musicians, and writers. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

The "New York School," a groundbreaking group of writers and artists who collaborated across disciplines, was rooted in the neighborhood south of Union Square in the mid-20th century. This loosely defined but transformative collective is credited with shifting the center of the art world from Paris to New York.

This 12-story Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1906 by the prolific firm of Sass & Smallheiser for Middleboro and Master Builders Realty Co. Sought after recording studio RPM Studios was located here, where a dazzling array of musical acts recorded. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story building was constructed in 1929 by architect William Shary for the 70 East 11th Street Corporation. It originally served as a parking garage.

This 7-story Romanesque Revival style loft was built in 1894 for Leopold R. True by Louis Korn, architect of many landmarked NYC buildings. Graphic designer and artist Stanley Glaubach had a studio here and Charles Cheriff Galleries was located here for nearly a century. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This originally two-story building was constructed c. 1880 for T.F. Sturges, and expanded to the current three stories in 1894. Around 1967, the influential publishing house Grove Press opened an office here, where it began operating the Evergreen Theatre for films and live productions. It now houses the New York Baha’i Center. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This rowhouse was constructed c. 1851-52 for Jacob Story.

Designed by Thomas O’Connor, this four-story neo-Grec structure was constructed in 1873 for John McIntyre. It was the headquarters of the publishers Ward, Locke, and Bowden, who published Lewis Carroll and Oscar Wilde, as well as Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story, two bay rowhouse was built c. 1870 by architect W. Field & Son for Henry Nailer (or Naylor). From 1953 to 1957, this was the home and studio of abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline. It is featured in the Season 4 premiere of Sex and the City. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This largely intact Greek Revival rowhouse was built c. 1845-1846 for Peter R. Bonnett. The building housed the workrooms and showrooms of a renowned fashion designer and an abstract expressionist gallery. It also served as the home of the prominent artist Rosemarie Beck and editor Robert Phelps. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 12-story Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1908 by the prolific firm of Sass & Smallheiser for Middleboro and Master Builders Realty Co. Noted photographer Charles Gatewood maintained a studio here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

A look at some of the architecturally, historically, and culturally significant buildings once located in this area. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of extant historic buildings south of Union Square.

This nine-story neo-Renaissance apartment building was constructed in 1925 and designed by Helmle, Corbett, & Harrison. Architectural renderer Hugh Ferriss, who envisioned urban utopia in his celebrated book The Metropolis of Tomorrow, and the actor who played Mr. Big in Sex and the City, resided here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The former building on this site was constructed in 1930 by architect William Shary for W.E. Podesta & L.A. Cuneo. It originally served as a parking garage, but has since been altered and converted to residences.

This 10-story Beaux Arts style loft building at 88 University Place/24-26 East 12th Street was constructed in 1906 by Middleboro Realty Co. by Samuel Sass. It housed the prominent art auction house Kaliski and Gabay. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Four stories in height, this Anglo-Italianate style building was designed by Thomas R. Jackson in 1855 and constructed by the Board of Education of the City of New York. The building served as the home of several all-girls schools, including the city’s first girls high school, and has housed the Police Athletic League since 1958. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eight-story loft building featuring recessed cast-iron bays was designed by Frederick C. Browne in 1899 for the German-born real estate developer and tire manufacturer Philip Braender. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Designed and constructed in 1894 by William Schickel & Co., this eight-story loft building was built in the neo-Classical style. Schickel, who was German-born, also designed the landmarked German Library and Dispensary at 135-137 Second Avenue. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This fifteen-story Gothic Revival building was designed by Victor Farrar in 1929 as an apartment hotel. Among its notable residents were Dr. Otto Nathan, the sole executor of Albert Einstein’s estate, who was subpoenaed and questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee while residing here. During prohibition, the building’s penthouse served as a speakeasy. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Since at least the 1890s and through the 20th century, this area was the center of the bookselling industry in New York, centered along Fourth Avenue as well as Broadway and University Place, and probably had the highest concentration of booksellers in the world. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This building was constructed c. 1841-42 for Amos Palmer as a private house. In later years it housed a hotel, the home and office of the first woman doctor in America, and the offices of the Village Voice newspaper. The influential publishing house Grove Press moved here in 1964, publishing Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Jacqueline Susann’s The Valley of the Dolls while here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This Greek Revival rowhouse was built in 1839-41 for George W. Tucker. American impressionist painter Julian Alden Weir and Social Realist painter Reginald Marsh resided here. The building was also home to key leaders of a missionary-led organization. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This nine-story apartment building was designed by Helme, Corbett, & Harrison and constructed in 1929 in the neo-Renaissance style. The building has served as the home of feminist writer, playwright, and essayist Dawn Powell; Charlotte Curtis, the first woman associate editor of The New York Times; Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell; and theater historian and educator Dr. Nellie McCaslin. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eight-story neo-Classical style loft building was constructed in 1899 by architect Louis Korn for James McPherson. Korn designed several other buildings in the district including 84 University Place, as well as in the Ladies Mile, Tribeca North, and NoHo Historic Districts.

Many notable organizations, leaders, and events in the women's rights and women's suffrage movements were located or took place here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This three-story building was likely built by James O’Neil as a stable c. 1851-52. The celebrated “New York School” poet Frank O’Hara lived here from 1957 to 1959, during this time serving as a curator for the Museum of Modern Art. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

A 16-story Colonial Revival-style apartment building designed in 1928 by Thomas Lamb, 49-51 Fifth Avenue's prominent residents included the first Catholic major party candidate for President and one of the most renowned female American artists of the last century. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 1852-1853 Italianate-style building was built for railroad and coal magnate Irad Hawley, and is an individual New York City landmark. This is the only surviving completely intact mansion or house on Lower Fifth Avenue, which was first developed almost entirely with such structures. The Salmagundi Club, a notable artists club founded in 1871, has resided here since purchasing the building in 1917. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

James Renwick (November 1, 1818 — June 23, 1895) was one of the most influential, accomplished, and skilled American architects of the 19th century. Largely self-taught, he lived and worked most of his life in this area, where his family had deep roots (they were relatives of the landowning Brevoorts). One of his first commissions, Grace Church, is considered among the first to introduce the Gothic Revival style to America, and is still considered one of the style’s greatest examples. While Renwick earned high profile commissions across the country — including St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. — nowhere is his work more represented than in this area south of Union Square, where he designed no fewer than six buildings within a block of the intersection of Broadway and 11th Street, and designed dozens more nearby, including the still-extant ‘Renwick Row’ and ‘Renwick Triangle.’ Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.