Ethical Culture School shares the block with Meeting House for New York Society of Ethical Culture. And, as the Society is sometimes mistaken for a religion, its meeting house is sometimes mistaken for a church, and the school as a parochial school. What separates the Society from a religion is its lack of a deity: […]
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First Church of Christ, Scientist is entering its third life, reincarnated as a museum. After a century of worship in its West 96th Street home, First Church of Christ, Scientist sold its landmark building to Crenshaw Christian Center East. A decade later, Crenshaw sold the building to a developer intent on converting the structure to
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Ritz Tower was conceived as an “apartment hotel” to circumvent the city’s height restriction for apartment buildings. Apartment buildings’ heights were limited to 150% of the width of the adjacent street. When it opened, 465 Park Avenue was the tallest residential building in New York City, and had the same cachet as one of the
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