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The W. R. Grace Building is a skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City.The building was designed principally by Gordon Bunshaft, and completed in 1972. [1] The building was commissioned by the W.R. Grace Company, and was also used by the Deloitte & Touche, LLP.
Notable residents include Genovese crime family boss Vincent Gigante; artist and satirist Joey Skaggs at 135 Sullivan Street, [3] politician Fiorello La Guardia, three-term Mayor of New York City, who was born at 177 Sullivan Street; [4] Vogue editrix Anna Wintour lived at 154 Sullivan; [5] composer Edgard Varèse and his wife Louise lived at ...
[7] [1] [8] While in Paris, Stuyvesant admired the French apartment buildings, and decided to build one in New York City. [9] He was 27 years old at the time. [1] The apartments were built in 1869–70 at the cost of $100,000, and were designed by noted architect Richard Morris Hunt in the Victorian Gothic style. [1]
The suit claimed that MetLife was improperly charging tenants "market rate" rents while at the same time receiving real estate tax benefits from the City of New York under the J-51 program, which requires property owners to maintain apartments as rent-stabilized during the period in which they are receiving benefits. The lawsuit asked for a ...
For census purposes, the New York City government classifies Bay Terrace as part of a larger neighborhood tabulation area called Fort Totten–Bay Terrace–Clearview. [9] Based on data from the 2010 United States Census , the population of Fort Totten–Bay Terrace–Clearview was 21,751, a change of -980 (-4.5%) from the 22,731 counted in 2000 .
The Germania Bank Building The James Brown House; to the right is the Urban Glass House Spring Street salt shed at west end of street. The Germania Bank Building, on the northwest corner of Spring Street and the Bowery (190 Bowery), a granite and limestone 1899 Renaissance Revival-style structure designed by Robert Maynicke, currently the 75-room residence, studio and gallery of commercial ...
Melrose is a mostly residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It adjoins the business and one-time theater area known as The Hub . Melrose is rectangular-shaped, being bordered by Saint Anns Avenue on the east, 149th Street on the south, Park Avenue on the west, and 163rd Street to the north.
The bar was once owned by a Patrick J. Clarke, an Irish immigrant who was hired in the early 1900s by a Mr. Duneen who ran the saloon. After about ten years working for him Clarke bought the bar and changed the name. The building is a holdout and is surrounded by 919 Third Avenue, a 47-story skyscraper.