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The Public has been housed in a landmarked Romanesque revival structure at 425 Lafayette Street since 1967, built between 1853 and 1881 as the Astor Library, which later merged with the Tilden and Lenox collections to become the New York Public Library. The library was built by William B. Astor, son of the library's founder, John Jacob Astor.
Soon after, a reviewer for The New York Times wrote "You enter through the side door of the Joseph Papp Public Theater. Farther south on Lafayette Street, revolving doors admit patrons to the Public's various theatrical spaces, but here, on the outskirts, an iron-fenced portal offers entree to the theater's new nightclub."
The Astor Place Theatre is an off-Broadway house at 434 Lafayette Street in the NoHo section of Manhattan, New York City. The theater is located in the historic Colonnade Row, originally constructed in 1831 as a series of nine connected buildings, of which only four remain. Bruce Mailman bought the building in 1965. [1]
By age 41, after Papp had established a permanent base for his free summer Shakespeare performances in Central Park's Delacorte Theater, an open-air amphitheatre, Papp looked for an all-year theater he could make his own. After looking at other locations, he fell in love with the location and the character of Lafayette Street's Astor Library ...
The change in Lafayette Street's history is epitomized by the construction of the Schermerhorn Building in 1888 to replace the Schermerhorn mansion, where Mrs. William Colford Schermerhorn had redecorated the interior to resemble Louis XV's Versailles, it was thought, to give a French-themed costume ball in 1854 for six hundred New Yorkers, [7] at which the German Cotillion was introduced in ...
Across the street, at 41 Cooper Square, is the school's newest building, the New Academic Building, designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The Village Voice ' s old headquarters are on the western side of the square, as are classroom buildings of Grace Church School and Kaplan, Inc. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The sleek, modern high-rise ...
The Lafayette Theatre was a 1,500-seat two-story theater built by banker Meyer Jarmulowsky that opened in November, 1912. [2] Located at 132nd Street and 7th Avenue, it was designed in the Renaissance style by architect Victor Hugo Koehler, who also designed the two three-story buildings flanking the theater on the corners of 131st and 132nd Streets.
In 1805, it moved, this time to Lafayette Street, stretching from 4th to 8th streets [15] in what were then the northern reaches of the city, [2]: 139 [10]: 61 the area that later became Astor Place, 4th Street, Broadway, and the Bowery. [2]: 45 Its theater's boxes faced the garden and blocked the stage from the street.