The stories behind the buildings, statues and other points of interest that make Manhattan fascinating.
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photograph by Ajay Suresh The renovation of Grand Central Depot to Grand Central Terminal sparked a burst of development in the neighborhood, known as Terminal City. A second wave that erupted in the 1920s included a 14-story "stores and apartment hotel," as described in the plans. Fred Bielsaski was president of the Barclay Park Corporation. In 1925, the syndicate hired the architectural firm of…
photo by Anthony Bellov The Harlem Reformed Low Dutch Church was founded in 1660. Its third house of worship was erected on the northwest corner of Boston Road (today's Third Avenue) and 121st Street in 1825. Designed by Martin E. Thompson, it was d escribed by the Reformed Church in America a century later as "a frame colonial church." I ts clapboard, neo- Georgian design was fronted by a…
Real estate developer James Carlew erected five sumptuous, 25-foot-wide townhouses on West 76th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue in 1898-99. Designed by Cleverdon & Putzel, each of the residences cost Carlew $40,000 each to construct, or about $1.6 million in 2026 terms. Faced in limestone, 24 West 76th Street was, like the others, four stories tall above an English basement.…
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