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Union Park New York (East side), an 1892 illustration Prior to the area's settlement, the area around present-day Union Square was farmland. The western part of the site was owned by Elias Brevoort, [5]: 221 who later sold his land to John Smith in 1762; [12] by 1788 it had been sold again to Henry Spingler (or Springler).
The Decker Building (also the Union Building) is a commercial building located at 33 Union Square West in Manhattan, New York City. The structure was completed in 1892 for the Decker Brothers piano company, and designed by John H. Edelmann. [2] From 1968 to 1973, it served as the location of the artist Andy Warhol's studio, The Factory. [3]
The Zeckendorf Towers, sometimes also called One Irving Place and One Union Square East, is a 345 ft-tall (105 m), 29-story, four-towered condominium complex on the eastern side of Union Square in Manhattan, New York City. Completed in 1987, the building is located on the former site of the bargain-priced department store S. Klein.
The Everett Building is a 16-story commercial structure at 200 Park Avenue South at the northwest corner with East 17th Street, on Union Square in Manhattan, New York.It was designed by the architectural firm of Starrett & van Vleck and opened in 1908.
After the addition, the total area of the Kent building was 770,000 square feet (72,000 m 2). [275] A new building, also designed by Philip Johnson, was built between the original skyscraper and the annex. [276] This became the Chrysler Trylons, a commercial pavilion three stories high with a retail area of 22,000 square feet (2,000 m 2). [270]
On the floors above, the architectural bays facing 14th Street appear to be wider than those facing Union Square, and the style of fenestration or window arrangement is different for each floor. [22] [23] The second through fourth floors are office floors, faced with limestone, with a cornice running above the fourth floor.
224 West 57th Street has 164,000 square feet (15,200 m 2) of usable interior space. This includes 6,000 square feet (560 m 2 ) at ground level, 4,800 square feet (450 m 2 ) in the tenth-floor penthouse, and between 10,000 and 18,000 square feet (930 and 1,670 m 2 ) on each of the other floors. [ 23 ]
The skyscraper, which has shaped Manhattan's distinctive skyline, has been closely associated with New York City's identity since the end of the 19th century.From 1890 to 1973, the title of world's tallest building resided continually in Manhattan (with a gap between 1894 and 1908, when the title was held by Philadelphia City Hall), with eight different buildings holding the title. [15]