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200 Amsterdam is a residential skyscraper at the intersection of Amsterdam Avenue and 69th Street on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. [1] The lot was formerly occupied by the Lincoln Square Synagogue . [ 2 ]
The old building is being replaced by a luxury apartment tower called 200 Amsterdam. [3] [7] [8] The new building, the largest new synagogue in New York City in fifty years, [9] is five stories tall and comprises 52,000 square feet (4,800 m 2), [5] [10] including a sanctuary able to hold 429 people. [11]
Tenth Avenue, known as Amsterdam Avenue between 59th Street and 193rd Street, is a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It carries uptown (northbound) traffic as far as West 110th Street (also known as Cathedral Parkway), after which it continues as a two-way street.
In addition, the viaduct carrying the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line over the 125th Street valley, including the 125th Street station, is designated a New York City landmark and on the NRHP. [ 204 ] [ 298 ] The portion of the viaduct between 122nd and 125th Streets is located in Morningside Heights.
It is bounded on the south by West 66th Street, on the west by Freedom Place, on the north by West 70th Street, and on the east by Amsterdam Avenue.Each building has a West End Avenue address, although one of the Lincoln Towers buildings has its entrance on West 66th Street, another on West 70th Street, and another is closer to Amsterdam Avenue than West End Avenue.
The development was approved by the New York City Planning Commission on February 7, 1952, as a low-rent housing project to be erected on a 22.5-acre (91,000 m 2) site, a "superblock" bounded by Manhattan Avenue, Amsterdam Avenue and West 100th and 104th Streets. [4]
Meanwhile, the New York Post reported that it will cost the city between $250,000 and $340,000 to retrofit and prepare a 275,000-square-foot former office building in the Bronx to accommodate the ...
The construction of the New York City Subway's Eighth Avenue Line in the 1920s accelerated this process of redevelopment. [ 2 ] : 18–19 (PDF pp. 32–33) The Central Park West Historic District was federally recognized on November 9, 1982, when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.