Tag Archives: New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission

Roberta Washington Guest Speaker for Women’s History Month

Roberta WashingtonWomen’s History Month is an annual observance in March which honors and celebrates the lives and achievements of American women throughout the history of the United States. Continue reading

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Apartment Houses, Mount Morris Park in Harlem, 1840′s

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This torn photograph montage looks down on “Apartment houses” on 5th Avenue between 116th and 117th Streets. Continue reading

Fire Watchtower in Harlem In Danger of Collapse

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The fire watchtower in the middle of Marcus Garvey Park — one of the city’s most spectacular and least-known landmarks — is deteriorating in danger of collapsing. Continue reading

Church of Our Lady of Esperanza, Harlem, 1919

The Church of Our Lady of Esperanza is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 624 West 156th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan in New York City. Continue reading

Graham Court Apartment House, 1905

Graham Court is a historic Harlem apartment building. It was commissioned by William Waldorf Astor, designed by the architects Clinton and Russell, and constructed in 1899-1901 as part of the great Harlem real-estate boom. Continue reading

The Astor Row Townhouses In Harlem

 

Astor Row is the name given to 130th Street between Fifth Avenue and Lenox Avenue in Harlem, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. More specifically, it refers to the semi-attached row houses on the south side of the street. Continue reading

Proposed Postmodern Historic Harlem Box Top

St. Nicholas Avenue and 146th Street features a short string of varied historic homes that ends at 721 St. Nicholas Avenue on the corner. Continue reading

The Harlem Village Academy Charter School Redo

We received a couple of tips this week that answered the big question on what was going on at the lot between 5th Avenue and Mount Morris Park West (at the northwest side of Marcus Garvey Park).   The ground work apparently started for the development at number 27-29 West 124th Street but DOB files do not indicate any applications.

It turns out that this is the back end of the new Harlem Village Academy charter school so the work would coincide with the front of the lot which faces 32 West 125th Street at the location of the old ConEd building: LINK. Continue reading

Central Harlem, Harlem, NY

Astor Row is the name given to 130th Street between Fifth Avenue and Lenox Avenue in Harlem, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Continue reading

Sugar Hill, Harlem, NY

Sugar Hill is a neighborhood in the northern part of Hamilton Heights, which itself is a sub-neighborhood of Harlem, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Continue reading