111 Fifth Avenue

Built in 1895

Photographed in 2010

The Constable Building at 109-111 Fifth Avenue at the corner of East 18th Street in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City was built in 1894-95 and was designed by William Schickel in the Neo-Renaissance style. It was originally planned to be a manufacturing an workshop building, but the use was changed to an office building before construction began. The site, which was purchased in 1893, was originally the Belmost Mansion, an the new builing was erected by the estate of Henrietta Constable, daughter of Aaron Arnold an the wife of James M. Constable. Arnold and Constable were partners in the Arnold Constable & Company Dry Goods Emporium on East 19th Street between Fifth and Broadway, to which this building was connected internally. The Constable Builing is located within the Ladies' Mile Historic District. (Source: "NYCLPC Ladies' Mile Historic District Designation Report, volume 1") 

Bloomberg Tower, NYC

731 Lexington Avenue/151 East 58th Street, NY, NY 10022
Architecture by César Pelli & Associates
Built in 2005, Photographed in 2005

One Beacon Court (also called the Bloomberg Tower), is a skyscraper on the East Side of Midtown
Manhattan, New York City. It houses the headquarters of Bloomberg L.P. in the lower floors and luxury condominiums in the higher floors. It was built on the site of the flagship Alexander's Department Store which was torn down in 2000. The mid-block public space at the base of the building is called Beacon Court. The building stands at 54 stories tall, reaching 806 feet (246 meters). Construction started in 2001 and was completed in 2005.It is currently the 14th tallest building in New York and the 42nd tallest in the United States. Several buildings were demolished to make way for the Bloomberg Tower (the tallest being the Barclay-Garrett Building).

One Court Square, NYC

1 Court Square, Long Island City, NY
Built in 1990, Photographed in 2004


One Court Square, also known as the Citigroup Building, is a 50-story (209.1 meters or 686 feet) office
tower in Long Island City, Queens just outside of Manhattan. It was completed in 1990 by Skidmore,
Owings & Merrill LLP for Citigroup. The tower is tallest in New York City outside Manhattan,
also known as Pulse87.7 broadcasts from the top of this building.
It is not to be mistaken for the Citigroup Center in Manhattan, which is across the street from Citigroup's
main headquarters at 399 Park Avenue. The buildings are one subway stop away from each other along
the E train.

Maritime Hotel, NYC

363 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
Built in 1966, Photographed in 2005

Guest rooms built for members of a sailors' union - each with windows shaped like portholes - and later
used by runaway teenagers and then by visitors from China are now occupied by hip visitors to New
York in what is now the Maritime Hotel.

The hotel is the latest incarnation of the white-tile 12-story structure that occupies the blockfront on the
east side of Ninth Avenue between 16th and 17th Streets.

For further reading:
Maritime Hotel in wired new york

Time Warner Center

Columbus Circle, NYC
Built in 2003, photographed in 2005

Exxon Building, NYC

1251 Avenue of America, NY, NY
Built in 1971, photographed in 2005

The Exxon Building, more widely known by its address, 1251 Avenue of the Americas, was part of the
later Rockefeller Center expansion (1960s-1970s) dubbed the "XYZ Buildings" on Sixth Avenue, (also
known as Avenue of the Americas). Their plans were first drawn in 1963 by The Rockefeller family's
architect, Wallace Harrison of the architectural firm, Harrison and Abramovitz.

Confucius Plaza Apartments, NYC

Built in 1975, photographed in 2005

Confucius Plaza Apartments is a limited-equity housing cooperative in Chinatown, Manhattan. The 44
story (433 ft (132 m)) tower block with 760 apartments was constructed in 1975 at a cost of
$38,387,000. The coop members are almost exclusively Chinese Americans. The complex is located
north of Chatham Square at the intersection of Bowery and Division Street.

Plaza Hotel, NYC

Central Park South & Fifth Ave
New York, NY 10019

Built in 1907

Photographed in 2004