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The design of the Coty Building's six-story facade dates to a 1907–1908 renovation from Woodruff Leeming. [1]: 5 The facade is a glass wall surrounded by a frame.The first two stories have limestone-faced piers and a cornice supported by corbel brackets; they are treated as a single continuous section of the facade.
Greenwood Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, named partially after the adjacent Green-Wood Cemetery by real estate developers. Greenwood Heights is a part of Brooklyn Community District 7 along with Windsor Terrace, Sunset Park and South Slope.
The estate was called Sunset Hill, due to its high elevation atop a hill and how its location provided for excellent views of the sunset during the summer and autumn months; furthermore, the mansion faced the west. [2] [3] [4] The hill on which the mansion was located reaches elevations high enough for the skyline of New York City to be seen. [5]
Sources differ as to the architect, developer, and year of construction. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, in its 1973 report on the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, says the building, at 495 Broadway, was designed by Alfred Zucker for Augustus D. Juilliard and was completed in 1893.
The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, formerly the Abigail Adams Smith Museum, is a historic antebellum building at 421 East 61st Street, near the East River, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is open to the public as a museum.
Ninth Avenue, known as Columbus Avenue between West 59th and 110th Streets, is a thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. Traffic runs downtown (southbound) from the Upper West Side to Chelsea. Two short sections of Ninth Avenue also exist in the Inwood neighborhood, carrying two-way traffic.
2017 New York City Council special election, District 9 [14] Party Candidate Votes % Community First : Bill Perkins: 3,933 : 34.0 : Holland4Harlem Marvin Holland 2,129 18.4 We Are One Athena Moore 1,715 14.8 Harlem Family Larry Scott Blackmon 1,371 11.8 Time to Wake Up Cordell Cleare: 1,101 9.5 Rent Too Damn High: Dawn Simmons: 314 Dawn for ...
Sunset Park is a 24.5-acre (9.9 ha) public park in the neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York City, between 41st and 44th Streets and 5th and 7th Avenues. The modern-day park contains a playground , recreation center, splash pad, basketball courts, soccer field, and pool.