The eleven-story Renaissance Revival building at 830 Broadway was built in 1897 and designed by Cleverdon & Putzel. A Book Row seller was located at the previous building at this site. Its neighbor at 832-834 Broadway was designed in 1896 by Ralph S. Townsend for the Commercial Realty and Improvement Company, also in the Renaissance Revival style. Both feature cast-iron storefronts. 832-834 housed several apparel manufacturers and was the site of a prominent shirtwaist strike and picket line. The building also housed a series of publishing companies, many of which were associated with the Communist Party U.S.A. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The eleven-story Renaissance Revival building at 830 Broadway was built in 1897 and designed by Cleverdon & Putzel. A Book Row seller was located at the previous building at this site. Its neighbor at 832-834 Broadway was designed in 1896 by Ralph S. Townsend for the Commercial Realty and Improvement Company, also in the Renaissance Revival style. Both feature cast-iron storefronts. 832-834 housed several apparel manufacturers and was the site of a prominent shirtwaist strike and picket line. The building also housed a series of publishing companies, many of which were associated with the Communist Party U.S.A. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This area was home to many prominent innovators and leaders in the field of fashion. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

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.

Many of the most prominent publishers in America and the world were located here, producing some of the most significant works of literature of the last two hundred years. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

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.

The area south of Union Square is one of New York’s main centers of cast iron architecture, from some of its earliest surviving fully cast-iron buildings to predominantly masonry buildings with distinctive and elaborate cast iron ground floors or ornament. 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.