“Manhattan used to be, among other things, a city of awnings.”
The New York Times, 1978
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Flatiron Building, 1908, Library of Congress
Unidentified Building, Date Unknown, MCNY
Gilsey House, 1200 Broadway, Date Unknown, NYPL
The Beresford, 211 Central Park West, 1931, MCNY
Henry M. Braem House, 15 East 36th Street, 1877, MCNY
Morningside Avenue, Date Unknown, Greater Astoria Historical Society
Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, Date Unknown, NYPL
The Morningside Park Apartments between 118th and 119th Streets, 1912, MCNY
902 to 920 Broadway between 20th and 21st Streets, 1910, NYPL
Coney Island Cottage, Brooklyn, 1934, NYPL
Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, 1903, NYPL
The Eldorado, 302 Central Park West, c 1920, MCNY
McAvoy English Garden Homes, Queens, 1924, MCNY
Hudson Terminal Building, c 1910, MCNY
New York Public Library, Tompkins Square Branch, 331 East 10th Street, c 1904-1930, MCNY
Skene Sanitarium, Brooklyn, c 1920, MCNY
Unidentified Building, 1936, NYPL
Unidentified Building, Date Unknown, MCNY
Consolidated Gas Company, 1907 Amsterdam Avenue, c 1915, MCNY
Maple Street between Rogers and Bedford Avenues, Brooklyn, 1925, MCNY
Grand Street and West 192nd Street, c 1915, MCNY
"Tenement Rear with Fire Escape," Unidentified Building, 1935, NYPL
Near Grand Central Terminal, 1880, NYPL
Lafayette Place Apartments, West 58th Street, c 1905, MCNY
The New York Public Library, Seward Park Branch, 1875, NYPL
Flatiron Building - Detail, 1908, Library of Congress
103-109 West 141st Street, c 1913, MCNY
Metropolitan Club, 1 East 60th Street, 1891, NYPL
333 East 18th Street, c 1940, NYC Department of Records and Information Services
Unidentified Building - Detail, Date Unknown, MCNY
Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, c. 1940, NYC Municipal Archives