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10 Jun 2022
136 West 18th Street. Built 1865. Landmarked Dec 11th, 1990.
19 May 2022
78 Cambridge Place, Clinton Hill Brooklyn. Built 1860. Landmarked November 10th, 1981.
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16 May 2022
Colonnade Row, Lafayette Street. Built 1832, Landmarked Oct. 14th, 1965.
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14 May 2022
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12 May 2022
Schermerhorn Building. 376 Lafayette Street. Built 1889. Landmarked June 29th, 1999.
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11 May 2022
John Shepard House. 356 Clinton Avenue Brooklyn. Built 1905. Landmarked Nov. 10th, 1981. #nyc #nychistory
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10 May 2022
Jasper Ward House. 45 Peck Slip. Built 1807. Landmarked May 10th, 1977. #nyc #nychistory
9 May 2022
133 Clinton Street. Built 1851. Landmarked Nov. 23rd, 1969. Home of the Brooklyn Excelsiors Baseball Club in the 1860s. #nyc #nychistory
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7 May 2022
Bobo Restaurant. W10th and 7th. Landmarked April 29th, 1969.
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6 May 2022
West Park Presbyterian Church. 86th and Amsterdam. Landmarked 01/10/2010
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15 Apr 2022
Fun Fact: not only did the Equitable Building help bring about the 1916 Zoning Resolution – which established “wedding-cake” setbacks for light and air while allowing set-back towers like the Chrysler Building – but now DCP HQ is here too! @landmarksofny tiktok.com/@landmarksofny/vi…
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25 Sep 2021
2nd Street Park Slope. 26 houses on the south side of the street were built by William Reynolds’s in 1903. While they look different, they all have the same design with different colors and alternating bay windows to make them look unique. Landmarked in 1973. #brooklyn
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24 Sep 2021
Lorenzo Hall at St. Joseph’s college. Built as a semi attached townhouse for Civil War Vet and contractor James Smith in the 1870s. Landmarked in 1981. #brooklyn
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23 Sep 2021
287 Broadway. Built as bank and office space by the Storm family in 1871. It’s one of the only Italianate, Second Empire Style building in New York and had an early Otis Elevator installed. It’s architect Joe Snook designed NYC’s first department store. It was landmarked in 1989.
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21 Sep 2021
Some people dream of a 2 bedroom apt in NYC but how about a 37 room mansion. This is the old Stuyvesant Fish Mansion on Gramercy Park South. It was built between 1845 and 1880 and was landmarked in 1966. #nyc #nychistory
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20 Sep 2021
14 Gay Street, Manhattan. Built 1827, former home of writer Ruth McKenny. Landmarked on April 29th, 1969.
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