L Chase Manhattan Bank

K Kips Bay Plaza

I Rockefeller Center Expansion

J Metropolitan Hotel

F Lincoln Center

D Manhattan House

G 2 Columbus Circle

C Rockefeller University

E Beekman Theater

B The Church of the Resurrection

A Port Authority Uptown Bus Terminal

H Park Avenue from 49th to 55th Street

This map includes over 150 postwar buildings, landscapes,

and infrastructures built in Manhattan between 1930 and 1980.

Some of them are already designated as New York City Landmarks.

The majority, recognized by local and national preservation organiza-

tions as significant, have not been yet been singled out for protection

in a formal designation process.

Twelve buildings, marked by letters A through L and not yet

landmarked, deserve special attention for their aesthetic or historical

interest as exemplars of twentieth-century design.

The sites on the map are numbered and indexed from north to south,

and within that system, from west to east.

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J

Metropolitan Hotel (Summit Hotel)

569 Lexington Avenue

Morris Lapidus

1961

Morris Lapidus is identified with flamboyant Miami

modernism, but his Summit Hotel, just blocks from the

strict glass facades of Park Avenue, gave him instant

notoriety up north. His slab snakes in a flattened S along

51st Street, adding square footage for 300 extra hotel

rooms. The hotel sign juts out over Lexington Avenue

in seven back-lit bubbles. The exterior’s aqua brick and

green tile are a nod to the architect’s earlier Fountainebleau

Hotel (1954) in Miami. The lobby originally continued the

tropical color theme and sported Eamesian clear plastic

chairs and oversized lamps. Lapidus had to redo it in

sober beige and brown for a more conservative New

York clientele.

A

George Washington Bridge Bus Station

4211 Broadway

Pier Luigi Nervi

1963

One of the Italian architect-engineer’s first American

works, the terminal is at the intersection of a spectacular

collection of infrastructural systems, where the George

Washington Bridge (Othmar Ammann, 1931) meets the

Henry Hudson Parkway, the Eighth Avenue subway,

and upper Broadway. Designed to provide easy access

to Manhattan for New Jersey commuters, the terminal

is utilitarian on the inside. Pier Luigi Nervi poured his

structural inventiveness into the roof, which features 26

saw-tooth concrete trusses, half of them raised to allow

air to flow into the upper level. The roof is carried on

sculpted concrete columns, which spread from narrow

bases into protective canopies. A second set of fretwork

teeth buttresses the roof on the north and south ends.

B

Church of the Resurrection

325 East 101st Street

Victor Lundy

1965

Victor Lundy established his architecture practice in

Sarasota, Florida, after studying under Walter Gropius at

Harvard. He had previous experience designing churches

in Florida and Connecticut. For a group of storefront

congregations that merged to build a collective house of

worship, Lundy designed a small, sculptural, two-story

brick church with a wide entrance that gradually narrows

into an interior lobby. From the first-floor social hall and

administration spaces, a winding ramp leads worshipers

to a tall upper-floor sanctuary. The architect originally

wanted the entire building to be a sculpture in brick, but

because of the building code he had to use standard

asphalt shingle for the roof. Built on a block of former

tenement dwellings, the church thrived as new housing

projects developed around it.

C

Rockefeller University Expansion Buildings

1230 York Avenue between East 64th and 68th streets

Harrison & Abramovitz with Dan Kiley, landscape design

1958

Wallace Harrison’s expansion of the Beaux-Arts campus

of this medical research institute comprises six buildings.

Interconnected along a tree-lined mall are Caspary Hall

and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Hall, containing offices

and visitor facilities. They present a limestone front to York

Avenue while opening a glass-and-metal facade to the

campus’s interior. Linked to them by a bridge is Caspary

Auditorium, an eye-catching 90-foot hemisphere; origi-

nally tiled blue, it is dotted inside with large acoustical

disks. To the north, with views of the East River, is the

President’s House. The low steel-and-stone villa has a

curvilinear roof and a transparent court sheltering a small

pool. Completing the mall to the south are the Graduate

Student Residences, detailed like Caspary/Rockefeller

Hall, and the nine-story Detlev W. Bronk Laboratory.

D

Manhattan House

200 East 66th Street

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Mayer & Whittlesey

1950

Built by New York Life Insurance Company, this enor-

mous housing complex of five tower units has approxi-

mately 600 apartments stretching between Second and

Third avenues. Sitting on a landscaped podium above a

parking garage, it takes it cue from Le Corbusier’s hous-

ing blocks. Its numerous balconies, metal sash windows,

and light gray glazed brick give it a refined image along

the streets, while setbacks allow for light and air. Al-

though gray, it was heralded as the first white brick apart-

ment building in New York. Its extensively glazed lobby

level blurs distinctions between interior and exterior in

signature modernist fashion. New York Life also built the

adjacent two-story commercial structure (see C).

E

Beekman Theater and commercial block

1242–1258 Second Avenue

Fellheimer & Wagner with John McNamara as

associate architect for the theater and J. M. Berlinger

as associate architect for Excelsior Bank

1952

Built by New York Life Insurance Company to provide

additional retail for apartment residents of Manhattan

House (see E), the complex originally contained two

banks, an automobile showroom, and the Beekman,

an art-film theater. The low-rise horizontal facade with

glazed corner, tiled surface, and ribbon windows flaunts

its modernist character. Inside, the streamlined lounges

lead to a dramatic theater with recessed cove lighting

and a sloping ceiling.

F

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

West 62nd to 66th streets between Columbus

and Amsterdam avenues

Harrison & Abramovitz, site plan

1962–1969

Lincoln Center was built to establish New York’s cultural

preeminence and revitalize a slum area. Wallace Harrison

drew up the all-star list of architects. To create unity, all

structures are travertine and glass. Harrison designed

the centerpiece Metropolitan Opera, a box fronted by

a thin arched screen. It is framed by Philip Johnson’s

New York State Theater and Max Abramovitz’s Avery

Fisher Hall. On the north, the Vivian Beaumont Theater,

by Eero Saarinen with Jo Mielziner, faces a reflecting

pool; Gordon Bunshaft’s Lincoln Center Library and

Museum wraps around its stage. In 2004 Diller Scofidio

+ Renfro proposed a redesign for the complex’s northern

edge, making Pietro Belluschi’s Juilliard School more

transparent and the marble plazas more welcoming.

G

2 Columbus Circle (Gallery of Modern Art)

Edward Durell Stone

1965

Designed as the Gallery of Modern Art to house A & P

supermarket heir Huntington Hartford’s collection of

figurative art, the building was conceived as a deliber-

ate counterpoint to the abstraction of the Museum of

Modern Art, whose original building Stone also worked

on a quarter century earlier. The small, white marble-clad

edifice boasts a Venetian-style arcade of lollipop-shaped

columns at street level, an arched screen at the upper

floors, and porthole windows along its sculptural curve.

Inside, it features a lower-level wood-paneled auditorium

and vertically organized gallery spaces. Slated for recon-

struction to serve as new headquarters for the Museum

of American Design, the building is currently embroiled in

a design and preservation debate.

H

Park Avenue

Midtown from 49th to 55th Street

Beginning with icons like Lever House (1952) and the

Seagram Building (1956), corporations and speculative

developers began to build glass boxes up and down Park

Avenue in what came to be known as the postwar or cor-

porate International Style. The buildings had ample floor

space for the new cadre of white-collar workers and fea-

tured amenities like air conditioning and modular offices.

Developers like the Uris Brothers built over 40 buildings

in the area, many designed by Emery Roth and Skidmore,

Owings & Merrill. Some were 1930s structures reclad

with curtain-wall facades. In the 1960s, passageways

through buildings, plaza bonuses, and other zoning tricks

to give developers maximum return on their investment

became common. Today many of these buildings are

undertaking revitalization programs, striving to balance

modernist aesthetics with the need for upgraded services

and environmental systems.

I

Rockefeller Center Expansion (second stage)

1211, 1221, and 1251 Sixth Avenue

Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris

1973

Better known as the XYZ Buildings, the headquarters

for Exxon, McGraw-Hill, and Celanese were originally

planned to mimic Rockefeller Center’s successful group-

ing of office towers and open space, with three slabs in

a U formation around a sunken plaza. After this scheme,

designed by Max Abramowitz, was rejected, Harrison

followed the lead of his own adjacent Time & Life Building

(1959), setting back the three slabs from Sixth Avenue.

The buildings are linked underground to both the subway

and Rockefeller Center’s shopping concourses, with

glass-walled passages that look out on McGraw-Hill’s

sunken plaza. Behind McGraw-Hill is the development’s

most successful small space: a midblock oasis with a

passage cut through a waterfall—a nod to Paley Park

(1966) on East 53rd Street.

K

Kips Bay Plaza

333, 343 East 30th Street and 300, 330 East 33rd Street

I. M. Pei & Associates with S. J. Kessler & Sons

1966

This ten-acre site was originally part of Skidmore, Owings

& Merrill’s master plan for New York University–Bel-

levue Medical Complex. Developer William Zeckendorf

bought the still-empty property in 1957 and hired Pei to

design apartments for the open market. Pei consolidated

1,136 units into two 410-foot-long, 21-story offset slabs,

perpendicular to the river and separated by a block-wide

open green space. His entirely consistent, crisply detailed

concrete-frame structures create urban-scale grandeur.

Inside, they allow for generous layouts, although halls are

long and apartments deep. The sculpture Pei wanted as

a park centerpiece proved too costly, so the plaza has

only dwarf trees, unlike at the elegant ensemble he de-

signed for New York University, University Village (1966),

where a Picasso is installed in the garden.

L

Chase Manhattan Bank Tower and Plaza

1 Chase Manhattan Plaza

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Gordon Bunshaft, designer);

Isamu Noguchi, garden design

1960

Gordon Bunshaft’s third postwar Manhattan skyscraper

was to do for downtown what Lever House did for Park

Avenue: transform a moribund area into a business

center. By combining its real estate into a superblock, the

bank created 1.7 million square feet of open-plan office

space in a monolithic 812-foot, aluminum-sheathed

slab located between Pine, Liberty, Nassau, and William

streets. The banking hall is set below grade in a 94,000-

square-foot podium. Isamu Noguchi developed a circular

fountain to let light and nature into this lower level. In the

upper plaza, Jean Dubuffet’s 42-foot-high Group of Four

Trees (1972) stands up to the architecture. Northwest of

Chase is Bunshaft’s landmarked Marine Midland Building

(1967), with Noguchi’s Red Cube (1967).

Institutional Residential Commercial Landmarked buildings are bold.

Name Address Architects Function Date

A George Washington Bridge Bus Station 4211 Broadway Pier Luigi Nervi transportation building 1963

2 Church of the Crucifixion 459 West 149th Street Costas Machlouzarides religious building 1967

3 Riverbend Houses East 138th and 142nd streets, between Fifth Avenue Davis, Brody & Associates housing complex 1967

and Harlem River Drive

4 Public School 92, The Mary McCleod Bethune School 222 West 134th Street Percival Goodman school 1965

5 Lenox Terrace West 132nd to 135th Street, between Lenox and Fifth Avenue S. J. Kessler & Sons housing complex 1957

6 Sherman Fairchild Life Sciences Building, Columbia University 1212 Amsterdam Avenue Mitchell Giurgola Associates university building 1977

7 Columbia University Law School 435 West 116th Street Harrison & Abramovitz university building 1961

B Church of the Resurrection 325 East 101st Street Victor Lundy religious building 1965

9 Harlem River Park Towers 10, 20, 30 & 40 Richmond Plaza Davis, Brody & Associates housing complex 1975

10 Ruppert Towers, Yorkville Towers, and Knickerbocker Plaza East 90th to East 92nd Street, between Second and Third Avenue Davis, Brody & Associates housing complex 1975

11 Asphalt Green Sports and Arts Center York Avenue to FDR Drive, between East 90th and 91st streets Kahn & Jacobs recreation center 1944

(Municipal Asphalt Plant)

12 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue Frank Lloyd Wright museum 1959

13 Phelps-Stokes Fund (Joseph Buttinger House) 10 East 87th Street Felix Augenfeld & Jan Hird Pokorny townhouse 1958

14 Church of St. Matthew and St. Timothy 26 West 84th Street Victor Christ-Janer religious building 1970

15 Hanae Mori (Richard Feigen Gallery) [Now demolished] 27 East 79th Street Hans Hollein with Peter Blake, Julian Neski, and Dorothy Alexander art gallery / showroom 1970

16 Temple Israel 112 East 75th Street Schuman & Lichtenstein religious building 1966

17 Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue Marcel Breuer & Associates museum 1966

18 Public School 199 270 West 70th Street Edward Durell Stone school 1963

19 The Asia Society 725 Park Avenue Edward Larrabee Barnes Associates museum 1980

20 124 East 70th Street (Edward A. Norman House) 124 East 70th Street William Lescaze townhouse 1941

21 The Premier 333 East 69th Street Mayer, Whittlesey & Glass (William J. Conklin, associate partner in charge of design) apartment building 1963

22 Gladys and Roland Harriman Building, American Red Cross 150 Amsterdam Avenue Skidmore, Owings & Merrill office building 1963

C Rockefeller University Expansion Buildings 1230 York Avenue, between East 64th and 68th streets Harrison & Abramovitz with Dan Kiley, landscape design university campus 1958

Caspary Hall & Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Hall

Caspary Auditorium

President’s House

Graduate Student Residences

Detlev W. Bronck Laboratory

D Manhattan House 200 East 66th Street Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Mayer & Whittlesey apartment building 1950

E Beekman Theater and commercial block 1242-1258 Second Avenue Fellheimer & Wagner with John McNamara and J.M. Berlinger, associate architects theater 1952

26 Russell Sage Foundation (Asia House) 112 East 64th Street Philip Johnson & Associates office building 1959

27 130 East 64th Street (Edward Durell Stone House Addition) 130 East 64th Street Edward Durell Stone & Associates townhouse 1958

F Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts West 62nd to 66th Streets, between Harrison & Abramovitz, site plan performing arts complex

New York State Theater Columbus and Amsterdam avenues Philip Johnson 1964

Metropolitan Opera Wallace K. Harrison 1966

Avery Fisher Hall (Philharmonic Hall) Max Abramovitz 1962

Vivian Beaumont Theater Eero Saarinen 1965

Lincoln Center Library and Museum Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 1965

Juilliard School Pietro Belluschi with Eduardo Catalano and Westermann & Miller 1969

Alice Tully Hall Pietro Belluschi with Eduardo Catalano and Westermann & Miller 1969

29 Alexander Hirsch Townhouse 101 East 63rd Street Paul Rudolph townhouse 1970

30 American Bible Society Building 1865 Broadway Skidmore, Owings & Merrill office building 1966

31 Fifth Avenue Synagogue 5 East 62nd Street Percival Goodman religious building 1956

32 1114-1116 First Avenue 1114-1116 First Avenue Horace Ginsbern & Associates office complex 1947

33 Roosevelt Island Tram Station 60th Street and 2nd Avenue Prentice & Chan Olhausen with Lev Zetlin Associates transportation building 1976

34 Roosevelt Island Philip Johnson & Associates, master plan 1975

Dan Kiley & Partners and Zion & Breen, landscape plan 1975

Rivercross and Island House 505, 513 & 541 Main Street Johansen & Bhavnani apartment complex 1975

Eastwood Apartments 510-580 Main Street Sert, Jackson & Associates apartment complex 1976

35 505 Park Avenue 505 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office building 1949

36 Cinema I and Cinema II 1001 Third Avenue Abraham W. Geller and Ben Schlanger theater 1962

G 2 Columbus Circle (Gallery of Modern Art) 2 Columbus Circle Edward Durell Stone museum 1965

38 240 Central Park South 240 Central Park South Mayer & Whittlesey apartment building 1941

39 General Motors Building 767 Fifth Avenue Edward Durell Stone; Emery Roth & Sons, associate architects office building 1968

40 ABN-Amro Bank Building (Pepsi-Cola Building) 500 Park Avenue Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois, designers) office building 1960

41 460 Park Avenue (Davies Building) 460 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons apartment building 1955

42 Solow Building (9 West 57th Street) 9 West 57th Street Skidmore, Owings & Merrill office building 197

43 Universal Pictures Building 445 Park Avenue Kahn & Jacobs office building 1947

44 575 Madison Avenue 575 Madison Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office building 1950

45 Mercedes-Benz Showroom (Jaguar Showroom) 430 Park Avenue Frank Lloyd Wright showroom 1955

46 Corning Glass Building 717 Fifth Avenue Harrison, Abramovitz & Abbe office building 1959

H Park Avenue

Bankers Trust Building 280 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons with Henry Dreyfuss, interior designer office building 1963; 1971

300 Park Avenue (Colgate-Palmolive Building) 300 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office building 1956

340-350 Park Avenue 340-350 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office complex 1962

400 Park Avenue 400 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office building 1958

410 Park Avenue 410 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office building 1959

430 Park Avenue 430 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office building 1954

48 Rockefeller Apartments 17 West 54th Street Harrison & Fouilhoux apartment building 1936

49 Sheraton New York (Americana Hotel) 811 Seventh Avenue Morris Lapidus & Associates and Kornblath, Harle & Liebman hotel 1962

50 Donnell Library Center 20 West 53rd Street Edgar I. Williams with Aymar Embury II library 1955

(Donnell Free Circulating Library and Reading Room)

51 Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone; Philip Johnson & Associates museum 1939; 1951; 1964

52 Paley Park (Samuel Paley Plaza) 3-5 East 53rd Street Zion & Breen with Albert Preston Moore, consulting architect park 1967

53 Lever House 390 Park Avenue Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Gordon Bunshaft, designer) office building 1952

54 CBS Building 51 West 52nd Street Eero Saarinen & Associates office building 1965

55 666 Fifth Avenue 666 Fifth Avenue Carson & Lundin office building 1957

56 Seagram Building 375 Park Avenue Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson; Kahn & Jacobs, associate architects office building 1958

57 The Four Seasons 99 East 52nd Street Philip Johnson & Associates restaurant 1958

58 Citicorp Center 601 Lexington Avenue Hugh Stubbins & Associates office building 1978

59 Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III Guest House 242 East 52nd Street Philip Johnson & Associates townhouse 1950

(Museum of Modern Art Guest House)

60 Look Building 488 Madison Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office building 1950

61 Greenacre Park 217-221 East 51st Street Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates park 1971

I Rockefeller Center Expansion

Time & Life Building 1271 Sixth Avenue Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris office building 1959

Equitable Building 1285 Sixth Avenue Skidmore, Owings & Merrill office building 1961

Exxon Building 1251 Sixth Avenue Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris office building 1971

McGraw-Hill Building 1221 Sixth Avenue Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris office building 1972

Celanese Building 1211 Sixth Avenue Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris office building 1973

J Metropolitan Hotel (Summit Hotel) 569 Lexington Avenue Morris Lapidus hotel 1961

64 High School of Graphic Communication Arts 439 West 49th Street Kelly & Gruzen school 1959

(High School of Printing)

65 Rockefeller Center West 48th and 51st Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenue Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; Hood & Fouilhoux office complex 1940

66 219 East 49th Street (Morris Sanders House and Office) 219 East 49th Street Morris Sanders townhouse 1935

67 Chase Bank Offices (Union Carbide Building) 270 Park Avenue Skidmore, Owings & Merrill office building 1960

68 860 & 870 United Nations Plaza 860 & 870 United Nations Plaza Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris apartment complex 1966

69 49th Street Subway Station Seventh Avenue, between West 47th and 49th Street Philip Johnson and John Burgee transportation structure 1973

70 William Lescaze House 211 East 48th Street William Lescaze townhouse 1934

71 767 Third Avenue 767 Third Avenue Fox & Fowle office building 1980

72 TKTS West 47th Street, between Seventh Avenue and Broadway Mayers & Schiff ticket booth 1973

73 Japan House 333 East 47th Street Junzo Yoshimura with Gruzen & Partners (George Shimamoto) museum 1971

74 United Nations Headquarters United Nations Plaza, East 42nd to East 48th Street International Committee of Architects (Wallace K. Harrison, chairman) office complex 1952

Edgar J. Kaufmann Conference Rooms 809 United Nations Plaza Alvar Aalto conference center 1965

75 711 Third Avenue 711 Third Avenue William Lescaze office building 1956

76 United Parcel Service Handling Center 643 West 43rd Street Levy & Levy mailing facility 1963

77 W. R. Grace Building (41 West 42nd Street) 1114 Sixth Avenue Skidmore, Owings & Merrill office building 1974

78 Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company 510 Fifth Avenue Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Charles Evans Hughes III bank 1954

(Manufacturers Trust Company) and Gordon Bunshaft, designers)

79 330 West 42nd Street (McGraw-Hill Building) 330 West 42nd Street Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux office building 1931

80 MetLife Building (Pan Am Building) 200 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons, Pietro Belluschi, and Walter Gropius office building 1963

81 Socony Mobil Building 150 East 42nd Street Harrison & Abramovitz office building 1955

82 200 East 42nd Street 200 East 42nd Street Emery Roth & Sons office building 1959

83 Daily News Building Addition 220 East 42nd Street Harrison & Abramovitz office building 1958

84 Ford Foundation Building 321 East 42nd Street Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates office building 1967

85 Spring Mills Building 104 West 40th Street Harrison & Abramovitz office building 1962

86 Parsons Center, New School University 560 Seventh Avenue William Lescaze university buildings 1950

(Brotherhood in Action Building)

87 Deering Milliken Company Building 1045 Sixth Avenue Carson & Lundin office building 1958

88 40 Park Avenue 40 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons apartment building 1950

89 22 West 34th Street (Spear & Company Furniture Store) 22 West 34 Street DeYoung & Moscowitz stores and office building 1934

90 Empire State Building 350 Fifth Avenue Shreve, Lamb & Harmon office building 1931

91 Midtown Mart Building (Westyard Distribution Center) 450 West 33rd Street Davis, Brody & Associates office building 1970

92 Madison Square Garden 4 Pennsylvania Plaza Charles Luckman Associates theater 1968

K Kips Bay Plaza 333, 343 East 30th Street and 300, 330 East 33rd Street I. M. Pei & Associates and S. J. Kessler & Sons apartment building 1965

94 New York Public Library, Kips Bay Branch 446 Third Avenue Giorgio Cavaglieri library 1971

95 Fashion Institute of Technology Seventh Avenue at 27th Street university campus

Administration and Technology Building De Young, Moscowitz & Rosenberg 1959

Morris W. and Fannie B. Haft Auditorium De Young, Moscowitz & Rosenberg 1959

Shirley Goodman Resource Center De Young, Moscowitz & Rosenberg and Lockwood & Green (Youssef S. Bahri, designer) 1977

David Dubinsky Student Center De Young, Moscowitz & Rosenberg 1977

Arts and Design Center De Young, Moscowitz & Rosenberg and Lockwood & Green (Youssef S. Bahri, designer) 1977

96 Starrett-Lehigh Building 601 West 26th Street Russell G. and Walter M. Cory with Yasuo Matsui, associate architect factory and warehouse 1931

97 John Lovejoy Elliott Houses 415, 425 West 25th Street Archibald Manning Brown, William Lescaze, and Morris & O’Connor housing complex 1947

420, 428 West 26th Street, 36 West 27th Street

98 Church of the Epiphany 373 Second Avenue Belfatto & Pavarini religious building 1967

99 Peter Cooper Village East 20th to East 23rd Street, between First Avenue and FDR Drive Irwin Clavan and Gilmore Clarke housing complex 1947

100 East 17th Street (Guardian Life Insurance Company Annex) 105 East 17th Street Skidmore, Owings & Merrill office building 1963

101 Stuyvesant Town East 14th to 20th Street, between First Avenue, Avenue C, and FDR Irwin Clavan and Gilmore Clarke housing complex 1947

102 Maritime Hotel 363 West 16th Street Albert C. Ledner with Furman & Furman hotel 1966

(Joseph Curran Annex of the National Maritime Union Building )

103 Odd Job and Payless Shoe Source (Patterson Silks) 34 East 14th Street Morris Lapidus store 1949

104 Edward and Theresa O’Toole Medical Services Building 36 Seventh Avenue Albert C. Ledner & Associates medical center 1964

(National Maritime Union of America, AFL-CIO)

105 New School University 66 West 12th Street Mayer, Whittlesey & Glass (William J. Conklin, associate partner in charge of design) university buildings 1958

Jacob M. Kaplan Building, 11th Street Building, auditorium

106 Butterfield House 37 West 12th Street Mayer, Whittlesey & Glass (William J. Conklin and apartment building 1962

James S. Rossant, associate partners in charge of design)

107 Public School 41 116 West 11th Street Michael Radoslovich school 1959

108 Elmer Holmes Bobst Library and Study Center 70 Washington Square South Philip Johnson and Richard Foster library 1972

109 Tisch Hall 40 West 4th Street Philip Johnson and Richard Foster university building 1972

110 Washington Square Village 1, 2, 3, 4 Washington Square Village S. J. Kessler & sons with Paul Lester Wiener, consultant for design and site planning apartment complex 1958

111 The University Plaza (University Village) 100 & 110 Bleecker Street and 505 LaGuardia Place I. M. Pei & Partners apartment complex 1965

112 Hamilton Fish Library 111 Columbia Street Kelly & Gruzen library 1956

113 Baruch Houses 50-60 Columbia Street Emery Roth & Sons housing complex 1959

114 East River Houses (Corlears Hook Houses) North and South of Grand Street, Herman Jessor housing complex 1956

between Lewis and Jackson streets and FDR Drive

115 Hillman Houses 500, 530 & 550 Grand Street Springsteen & Goldhammer housing complex 1951

116 Civic Center Synagogue 47-49 White Street William N. Breger religious building 1967

117 Chatham Green 185 Park Row Kelly & Gruzen apartment building 1961

118 Chatham Towers 170 Park Row Kelly & Gruzen apartment building 1965

119 Public School 126 80 Catherine Street Percival Goodman school 1966

120 New York City Police Department Headquarters One Police Plaza Gruzen & Partners office building 1973

121 Borough of Manhattan Community College 30 West Broadway William Lescaze university building 1959

122 1 Liberty Plaza (Merrill Lynch Plaza) 1 Liberty Plaza Skidmore, Owings & Merrill office building 1974

123 Marine Midland Bank 140 Broadway Skidmore, Owings & Merrill office building 1967

L Chase Manhattan Bank Tower and Plaza 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Gordon Bunshaft, designer); Isamu Noguchi, garden design office building 1960

125 88 Pine Street (Wall Street Plaza) 88 Pine Street I. M. Pei & Partners (James Ingo Freed, designer) office building 1973

126 Battery Park Garage 56 Greenwich Street Ole Singstad garage 1950

127 77 Water Street Building 77 Water Street Emery Roth & Sons with Corchia-de Harak Associates, arcade and roofscape design office building 1970

128 80 Pearl Street 80 Pearl Street Emery Roth & Sons office building 1960

Potential landmarks Buildings are eligible for landmarking in New York City once they

are 30 years old. Landmark status helps protect buildings from

inappropriate changes or destruction. The dozen sites below,

exemplary of 20th-century design, are not yet landmarked. They

deserve special attention for their aesthetic or historical interest.

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