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Built in 1982 as one of the crown jewels of the Tishman Speyer real estate empire, 520 Madison Avenue epitomizes the idea of a tasteful and comfortable contemporary office building. The address of the building is somewhat misleading, as the actual entrances are located on 53rd Street and 54th... more

A crown jewel even among the opulent, antique boutique hotels of midtown Manhattan, the St. Regis was built by Gilded Age giant John Jacob Astor, frustrated by what he considered the city's inadequate lodgings, to provide guests he couldn't accommodate in his own homes the kind of luxury and... more

An accomplished expression of the ideals of the midcentury-hegemonic International Style, and the most expensive office building ever constructed at the time of its opening, the Seagram building is all the more remarkable for having been designed co-operatively by two acclaimed architects, American... more

Part school, part museum, part library and research center, part public platform and event space, the International Center of Photography is a diverse cultural institution, richly endowed and deftly steered, which can now lay legitimate claim to the status suggested by its ambitious name. Founded... more

Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in midtown Manhattan is known as much for its cultural offerings as its spiritual ones. An impressive but unexceptional Romanesque facade, built in 1918 for a congregation founded on the Bowery in 1835, St. Bart's contains the city's largest pipe organ (one of... more

Built over twenty years spanning the American civil war, St. Patrick's is the eleventh-largest church in the world and the biggest on American soil. Located in the heart of midtown, this massive French-Gothic white-marble-and-stone structure, when built, was considered a long trip from "town," set... more