Agreed. The building I posted is such a wasted loss, I mean it was demolished years before activity actually occurred on the site, but it’s the site of a small parking garage/pool area for the Millenium Hilton now. Today you can still see an 11-story smudged outline on the wall of the AT&T Building that it used to cover.
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A good old Landmark the Gilsey House on Broadway corner 29th Street from 1872.
later remolded 1946.
and today.
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A nice picture probably taken from the Singer Building, where we can see the top of the City Investing Building and the roof of the Hudson Terminal buildings.
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June 1964; looking west across Greenwich Street over a public space towards the rest of Radio Row
April 1966: South down Greenwich with the Hudson Terminal Garage on the right and demolition happening on the left
Demolition of Pier 13
Glackner Building and an old Romanesque factory building
November 1966 with the factory building almost gone and Telephone Building visible
Hudson Terminal South Building seen from the Greenwich/W Broadway junction park
The buildings next to the garage being demolished
Another tenement vanishes revealing more space, an alley, and New Jersey
More tenements disappear as does an entire block
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pretty crazy to imagine an entire neighborhood gone for just 7 buildings. Urban renewal at its worst. Sign of the times. It did attract new business, in the end, but its still baffling.
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A woman mowing the lawn on top of 4 Albany Street c. 1972. This building was razed in 2005 for the W Hotel.
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The old Decker Building on Union Square from 1893.
Decker Building 1900
Decker Building with his neigbors Bank of the Metropolis from 1903
From 2011
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Birds-Eye view of New York from the St. Patricks cathedral 1888
Churchs are the highest Buildings in Mid-Manhattan in the background is the Dakota Flats.
On the Side on Plaza Hotel stand the Fifth Avenue Plaza Hotel from 1886.
The building is John D. Phyfe and James Campbell’s New Plaza Hotel which according to The New York Times on March 23, 1886 a workman had been killed in an accident the day before and the building was nearly completed as the roof had just been put on. Phyfe and Campbell ended up losing the hotel in foreclosure before it was completed and it was purchased on September 18, 1888 by the New-York Life Insurance Co. for the bargain price of $925,000.
The architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White were hired to remodel the hotel and it finally opened in 1890 only to be torn down in 1905 to make way for the current Plaza Hotel now sitting on the site.
the remolded Plaza Hotel from 1890
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Wow, that’s an amazing peek into the past. Where did you find this photo, the aerial one? @Mackensen
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1946, note Singer Building flagpole demolition
Dusk
Silhouette
1958
1958, around sunrise
1959
Summer 1959
Undated 1950s view of Evening Post & Underwood Buildings on Vesey
~1958 undated
~1960 undated
1960
1963
Clearing House photo in color
1964
1967
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The Link to the pic New York 1888 @the726 .
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Evening Post Building, built in 1875 at 204-210 Broadway
1893
1934
1935, following a modern renovation to the top floors
December 1936: photos taken expecting demolition
1940/41 tax photo of 200 Broadway showing demolition of the Post Building; 200 Broadway would soon disappear as well
1948: The Waterman’s Building replaced the Post Building in 1942, and the small taxpayers adjacent to it replaced 200 Broadway shortly after.
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Washington Building from 1884.
Mansardenroof build 1887
around 1890 with the Columbia Building
1893
Bowling Green Building was build 1895
around 1900
remolded the facade 1922
Cunard Building from 1921
Columbia Building New Yorks third Steel-frame Building.
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Sorry, I know this is off topic again but just thought it was another good example of a modern development that shows the desire to keep things (at least in architecture) classic. This is a new urbanism town in England called Poundberry.
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St. Paul’s churchyard c. 1935
1939; note the taxpayer in the background has absorbed the small tenement
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