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The Corinthian has received mixed reviews from architecture critics. [22] [23] In its description of the newly completed apartment building, the 1988 AIA Guide to New York City noted, "Here Scutt has excelled—his best building by far." [24] Architectural critic Carter Horsley wrote that the building "bursts with energy and has a palatial lobby."
Ginsbern and Fine built one of the earliest Art Deco apartment buildings in the Bronx at 1005 Jerome Avenue, the Park Plaza Apartments, from 1929–1931. [ 4 ] Ginsbern's work on Park Plaza impressed Bernard Noonan , an Irish developer who was building housing in the Bronx, and he recruited them to build a much larger version of those ...
The project was proposed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1944, [1] and largely served an African American population, [2] in contrast to Met Life's Parkchester in the Bronx (1940), Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan, Park La Brea in Los Angeles, Parkmerced in San Francisco, and Parkfairfax in Alexandria, Virginia, which were restricted to a whites-only tenancy at ...
Trump Tower is a 58-story, 663-foot-tall (202 m) mixed-use condominium skyscraper at 721–725 Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, between East 56th and 57th Streets.
[1] [3] The complex, built on the site of the former Culver Depot, [4] was designed by architect Morris Lapidus. [2] The construction cost US$70 million. [5] It was supported by the New York State Housing Finance Agency through public bonds issued by the state of New York, coupled with tax exemption. [6]
The Brooklyn Tower is situated at 9 DeKalb Avenue and 340 Flatbush Avenue Extension in the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City. [2] [3] [4] The building's site occupies much of the triangular city block bounded by Fleet Street to the northwest, DeKalb Avenue to the south, and Flatbush Avenue Extension to the northeast.
The Empire State Building is a 102-story [c] Art Deco skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931.
The Martinique New York on Broadway, Curio Collection by Hilton is a 532-room hotel at 53 West 32nd Street (also known as 1260-1266 Broadway) [4] in Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh and built by William R. H. Martin , who headed the Rogers Peet business, in a French Renaissance style.