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It was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on June 30, 1988, and encompasses nine mid-19th century rowhouses and apartment buildings on the south side of East 17th Street, from number 104 to number 122, plus one additional building at 47 Irving Place just south of 17th Street. [1] [2]
Lexington Avenue seen from 50th Street with the Chrysler Building in the background. Both Lexington Avenue and Irving Place began in 1832 when Samuel Ruggles, a lawyer and real-estate developer, petitioned the New York State Legislature to approve the creation of a new north–south avenue between the existing Third and Fourth Avenues, between 14th and 30th Streets.
Irving Plaza (known through sponsorship as Irving Plaza, powered by Klipsch [1] and formerly known as the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza) is a ballroom-style music venue located within the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was featured on the Complex City Guide list of "50 Best Concert Venues of America" in 2013. [2]
The Consolidated Edison Building (also known as the Consolidated Gas Building and 4 Irving Place) is a neoclassical skyscraper in the Gramercy neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The 26-story [a] building was designed by the architectural firms of Warren and Wetmore and Henry Janeway Hardenbergh.
An assortment of restaurants, bars, and establishments line Irving Place, the main thoroughfare of the neighborhood south of the park. Pete's Tavern, New York's oldest surviving saloon, and where O. Henry is often erroneously said to have written The Gift of the Magi, [59] survived Prohibition disguised as a flower shop.
The Washington Irving Campus is a public school building located at 40 Irving Place between East 16th and 17th Streets in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, near Union Square. Operating as the Washington Irving High School until 2008, it now houses six schools under the New York City Department of Education.
Beekman Place is a small street located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood on the East Side of Manhattan, New York City.Running from north to south for two blocks, the street is situated between the eastern end of 51st Street and Mitchell Place, where it ends at a retaining wall above 49th Street, overlooking the glass apartment towers at 860 and 870 United Nations Plaza, just north of the ...
The building that houses Pete's Tavern was built in 1829 as the Portman Hotel. The building that houses Pete's was built in 1829, and was originally the Portman Hotel; [2] liquor may have been sold there as early as 1851 [3] or 1852 [4] – when it was a "grocery & grog" store [3] – and the first official drinking establishment founded by 1864.