LandmarksofNY

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136 West 18th Street. Built 1865. Landmarked Dec 11th, 1990.

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78 Cambridge Place, Clinton Hill Brooklyn. Built 1860. Landmarked November 10th, 1981.

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Colonnade Row, Lafayette Street. Built 1832, Landmarked Oct. 14th, 1965.

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97 Crosby Street. Built 1895. Landmarked May 11th, 2010. #nyc #soho

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Schermerhorn Building. 376 Lafayette Street. Built 1889. Landmarked June 29th, 1999.

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John Shepard House. 356 Clinton Avenue Brooklyn. Built 1905. Landmarked Nov. 10th, 1981. #nyc #nychistory

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Jasper Ward House. 45 Peck Slip. Built 1807. Landmarked May 10th, 1977. #nyc #nychistory

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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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Bobo Restaurant. W10th and 7th. Landmarked April 29th, 1969.

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West Park Presbyterian Church. 86th and Amsterdam. Landmarked 01/10/2010

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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 https://t.co/aJn8TncsVF

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The Public Theater. Built as the first free lending library in the city by John Jacob Astor in 1841. In 1895 the library moved out. The public theater opened here in 1967 and was the launch pad for shows like Hamilton. It was landmarked in 1965. #theater #nyc

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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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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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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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Grace Court Alley Brooklyn Heights, constructed between the 1840s-1900s in Brooklyn heights as stables and carriage houses for the surrounding homes. They’re now some of the most expensive houses in the neighborhood. #nyc #Brooklyn

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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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14 Gay Street, Manhattan. Built 1827, former home of writer Ruth McKenny. Landmarked on April 29th, 1969.

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Just posted a photo @ Park Slope Brooklyn https://t.co/kBBaKW0Xxb

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Just posted a photo @ Long Island City https://t.co/FMTxA1XFeR