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.

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.

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.

Many generations of the Roosevelt family lived here, had significant holdings here, and developed many of the existing buildings here. During this time, they achieved numerous notable accomplishments in the fields of politics, literature, diplomacy, and environmental protection. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This landmarked six-story brick store and loft building was designed by Stephen Decatur Hatch in 1876. Its facade is clad in historic cast-iron, and the building features neo-Grec, Second Empire, and Renaissance Revival style elements. Workers at the clothing manufacturer Freigat & Keim, also located here, participated in the historic shirtwaist strike of 1909-10. Judge James Roosevelt, noted Supreme Court justice and relative of Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, resided here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.