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.

Several key individuals, organizations, and meeting spaces connected to LGBTQ history were located here, including the headquarters of the country's first national LGBTQ rights organization, and prominent writers, artists, musicians, and performers. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

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.

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.

A vast array of people who made a mark in the field of politics had connections to this area, including many notable "firsts" to run for or win office. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

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 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 area was a mecca for leftist and labor organizing, with many of the most significant figures and organizations of the 19th and 20th centuries located here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

An extraordinary confluence of organizations and people connected to African American, LGBTQ, Women's, and other civil rights struggles were located here, including some of the most significant in each of these movements. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

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.

This area contains a number of sites connected to significant people or developments in New York's Jewish history. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

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.

The area around Broadway and University Place became home to some of the city’s most desirable hotels in the mid-19th century as this area began its transition from residential to semi-commercial district. This included the recently-demolished St. Denis Hotel at Broadway and 11th Street, and the Hotel Albert at University Place and 11th Street, now the Albert Apartments. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.