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From porthole to just plain pimpery. The maritime building was originally designed as the headquarters for the sailor's union in the 60's. It later became a shelter for estranged teenagers. In its final incarnation, it is the genius brainchild of hoteliers McPherson and Goode, who turned its... more

This architecturally idiosyncratic curiosity was built between 1874 and 1877 as local courthouse by a team including Central Park architect Calvert Vaux, and stayed in-use through the end of the Second World War. Previously, the block had been the site of a local market, and the soaring northern... more

A member's-only club for the kind of folks who wear their elitism like a badge of honor, the Harvard Club occupies two adjacent lots on West 44th street, a peculiar, haphazardly-built structure designed in several stages by the eminent architectural firm McKim Mead, and White. First organized in... more

A striking, full-block, Neo-Gothic fortress planted on New York's architecturally staid Upper East Side, the Seventh Regiment Armory (sometimes known as the Park Avenue Armory) is now a multi-purpose public facility and event space. As New York's most famous standing armory, the Seventh Regiment... more

A life-size diorama, the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, on Gramercy's East 20th Street, is a recreation of the childhood home of the man who became America's 26th president. (The original structure burnt down in 1916, but the house was rebuilt in 1923 and refurnished with... more

An open-air museum of colonial history that showcases a preserved (or recreated in some case) local pre-modern village, our very own Colonial Williamsburg right in the city—if Staten Island counts. The museum, which was, in fact, modeled on the popular Williamsburg life-size diorama, occupies 25... more