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The rink impacted the lives of several local DJs, who would go on to popularize house and electro music. [18] [19] House DJ Frankie Bones has recalled the rink's influence on his life and career, stating he learned how to skate at the Roll-A-Palace as a child. [18] In 2003, he wrote that he experienced the peak disco era (1979) through roller ...
Oldest surviving structure in New York, oldest in Brooklyn, oldest on Long Island. Zachariah Hawkins House: Stony Brook: 1660 c. Klinkenberg(h) Bouwerji Coxsackie: 1663 c. One of oldest surviving Dutch homes north of greater New York City area. On the western shore of Hudson River.
It is the oldest stone house in western New York and is currently owned by the Hull Family home association. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1] The Hull House has scheduled Open House days during the spring, summer, and fall. An appointment can be made at the website, hullfamilyhome.org, for a group tour.
Ada Louise Huxtable described the buildings in 1968 as "one of the best buildings New York could and can claim, then or now". [190] The New York Times reported in 1971, "The complex has long been regarded as one of New York City's architectural treasures." [171] The houses remained relatively nondescript through the late 20th century. [259]
The razing of buildings for the construction of the complex began in 1950, and the buildings were completed on April 1, 1953. [3] [7]The key sponsor of the development was State assemblyman John J. Lamula and it was named after four-time New York Governor Al Smith (1873–1944), the first Catholic to win a Presidential nomination by a major political party and a social reformer who made ...
The former Commandant's House is set on a bluff overlooking the western side of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a few blocks south of the East River. It is accessed via a gated drive at the junction of Little and Evans Streets. The house is three and a half stories in height, of wood-frame construction, and finished in wooden clapboards.
When, in the late 1970s, a young Los Angeles filmmaker named Jane Spiller commissioned Frank Gehry to design her home in Venice, California, it was an early but groundbreaking period of Gehry’s ...
The mansion is located at 65 Jumel Terrace [8] in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. [2] [9] The house is in Roger Morris Park, within the boundaries of the Jumel Terrace Historic District, but is landmarked separately from the historic district. [10]