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View of 9 East 71st Street Main entrance of the house. The Herbert N. Straus House is a large town house at 9 East 71st Street, just east of Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The exterior was designed by Horace Trumbauer, [1] and completed in 1932. A roof extension was added in 1977. [2]
St. James' Church is an Episcopal parish church located at the intersection of Madison Avenue and 71st Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.. Founded in May 1810 as a summer chapel for New Yorkers with country homes north of the then city, it has grown into one of the largest Episcopal churches in New York City.
The building is located on the corner of 71st street, within blocks of Central Park, The Frick Collection, and The Whitney Museum, as well as The Carlyle Hotel, also designed by Sylvan Bien. In 2011, 737 Park Avenue was sold to real estate developer Harry Macklowe , [ 3 ] who is currently developing the building into condominiums .
The Dorilton is at 171 West 71st Street, at the northeast corner with Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.It occupies the western end of a city block bounded by Broadway to the west, 72nd Street to the north, Central Park West to the east, and 71st Street to the south. [2]
The Church of the Blessed Sacrament is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located in the Upper West Side of Manhattan at 152 West 71st Street, just east of Broadway. The parish was established in 1887. [1]
The three-storey penthouse at 740 Park Avenue. The building was constructed in 1929 by James T. Lee, the grandfather of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – who lived there as a child as Jacqueline Bouvier – and was designed by Rosario Candela and Arthur Loomis Harmon; Harmon became a partner of the newly named Shreve, Lamb and Harmon during the year of construction.
The 71st Street station opened on June 24, 1916 along with the first portion of the BMT West End Line from 36th Street on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line to 18th Avenue station. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The line was originally a surface excursion railway to Coney Island , called the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad , which was established in 1862, but ...
In 1976, weekday N service was extended north over the 60th Street Tunnel Connection to Forest Hills–71st Avenue to replace the discontinued EE route, which until then had run from 71st Avenue to Whitehall Street in Manhattan. [24] In 1987, the N and R routes swapped northern terminals, and the R began running to 71st Avenue. [25]