Series VI: 2018 Accrual - Reports/Research Files, 1920-2015, inclusive
Scope and Contents
This series is made up of the reference files maintained by Andrew Alpern, donated in 2018. The files are focused on specific New York City buildings, topics, and neighborhoods. The files primarily include photographs, articles, and newspaper clippings. It also includes 2 video cassettes.
Conditions Governing Use
The videotapes are restricted because of their fragility and because N-YHS has no equipment on which to play them.
ABC Building, West 67th Street, 1983-1999, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 14, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gaetano Ajello, 1977-2009, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Albany Apartments, London
Offsite-Box: 18, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Alwyn Court, 182 West 58th Street
Offsite-Box: 19, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ansonia, 2109 Broadway
Offsite-Box: 19, Folder: 10-11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Apartment House Names
Offsite-Box: 20, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Apartment Houses
Offsite-Box: 25, Folder: 1-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Apartments from Other Uses
Offsite-Box: 20, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Apthorp Courtyards, Broadway and West 78th; and Graham Court, Seventh Avenue and West 116th Street
Offsite-Box: 19, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Archdiocese of New York - Souvenir Album in Commemoration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Archdiocese of New York 1808-1908 [Photocopy], 1908, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 12, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Architects and Builders, 1977-2007, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Austin Nichols Warehouse /184 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, 2005, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 12, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Belnord, 225 West 86th Street
Offsite-Box: 19, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Beresford, 211 Central Park West
Offsite-Box: 20, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
C.K.G. Billings Estate, 1985-1996, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 10, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Blizzard of 1888, 1888-1998, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 10, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Brittania, 527 West 110th Street
Offsite-Box: 19, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Brownstones, 1970-2015, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 3-6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Buildings - Miscellaneous
Offsite-Box: 23, Folder: 5-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Car Barns and Bus Depots
Offsite-Box: 24, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Carnegie Hall, 1963-2007, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Contents
includes articles and brochures about the Carnegie Hall Studios, the live/work spaces for artists.
Cast Iron, 1970-2013, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Castles, 1987-2003, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Cemeteries
Offsite-Box: 23, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Central Park West
Offsite-Box: 23, Folder: 3-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Central Park West: Building-Structure Inventory, 1975, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 12, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Century Apartments, 25 Central Park West
Offsite-Box: 19, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Chelsea
Offsite-Box: 22, Folder: 9-10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Chelsea Hotel, 222 West 23rd Street
Offsite-Box: 22, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Cherokee Apartments aka the Shively Sanitary Tenements, York Avenue and East 77th-78th Streets
Offsite-Box: 19, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Huguette Clark Residence, 907 Fifth Avenue, 1927-2013, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Coffee House Club, 1915-1993, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 10, Folder: 3-5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Collyer Brothers
Offsite-Box: 22, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Columbus Avenue, 1983-2001, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bill Cunningham
Offsite-Box: 16, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Dorilton, 171 West 71st Street
Offsite-Box: 20, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Duplex/Studio Buildings
Offsite-Box: 19, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
East End Avenue, 1984-2000, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 13, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
East Side
Offsite-Box: 16, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
El Dorado, 300 Central Park West
Offsite-Box: 22, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Elevators
Offsite-Box: 16, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Fairfax Apartment/795 Fifth Avenue, 1996-2017, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 12, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Fifth Avenue
Offsite-Box: 22, Folder: 4-6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Fifth Avenue and Central Park: Building-Structure Inventory, 1975, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 12, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Fifty-Seventh Street
Offsite-Box: 21, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Jack Finney, 1983-1995, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 10, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gainsborough, 222 Central Park South
Offsite-Box: 18, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Harmon Hendricks Goldstone
Offsite-Box: 18, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gracie Mansion
Offsite-Box: 16, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gracie Square
Offsite-Box: 16, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gramercy Park
Offsite-Box: 16, Folder: 7-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hetty Green
Offsite-Box: 22, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hampshire House, 150 Central Park South
Offsite-Box: 18, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
George Harris, Canadian architect
Offsite-Box: 14, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Henrik Hudson, 380 Riverside Drive
Offsite-Box: 24, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hotel des Artistes, 1 West 67th Street
Offsite-Box: 19, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Houses in New York City
Offsite-Box: 25, Folder: 5-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Housing
Offsite-Box: 25, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Imperial, 55 East 76th Street
Offsite-Box: 18, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Interiors
Offsite-Box: 21, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Landmarks
Offsite-Box: 21, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lighting, 1981-1994, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 14, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lobbies
Offsite-Box: 21, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
London Terrace
Offsite-Box: 17, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Majestic, 115 Central Park West
Offsite-Box: 17, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Manhasset, 301 West 108th Street and 300 West 109th Street
Offsite-Box: 17, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Montana Apartments
Offsite-Box: 18, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Navarro, or Spanish Flats
Offsite-Box: 21, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Neighborhoods
Offsite-Box: 21, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New York's Changing Scene newspaper feature
Offsite-Box: 21, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New York City history
Offsite-Box: 23, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Normandy, 140 Riverside Drive
Offsite-Box: 21, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Old London Street
Offsite-Box: 21, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Osborne, 205 West 57th Street
Offsite-Box: 24, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Park Avenue
Offsite-Box: 24, Folder: 4-5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Parks
Offsite-Box: 24, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Penn Station
Offsite-Box: 24, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Penthouses
Offsite-Box: 24, Folder: 7-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pomander Walk, Upper West Side, 1981, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 12, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Prospect Park South, 1975, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 12, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Real Estate Deeds and Records, 1674, 1811-1859, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 10, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reform Club, 1986-1994, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 14, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Renovations, 1935-2006, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 14, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
River House, 435 East 52nd Street, 1980-1994, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 14, Folder: 7-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Riverside Apartments, Brooklyn, 2008, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 12, Folder: 8-9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Riverside Drive
Offsite-Box: 20, Folder: 5-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Rockefeller Apartments, 1941-2015, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 14, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Roosevelt Island, 1975-2017, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 14, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Russian Tea Room
Offsite-Box: 18, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
St. Urban, 285 Central Park West
Offsite-Box: 23, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
San Remo, 145-146 Central Park West
Offsite-Box: 15, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Schwab Mansion, 73rd-74th Streets, Riverside Drive to West End Avenue
Offsite-Box: 18, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Schwartz and Gross Architectural Firm
Offsite-Box: 20, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sheet Metal Company Catalogs, 1892-1909, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 10, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Editta Sherman
Offsite-Box: 15, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Skyscrapers
Offsite-Box: 18, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Soaring Salons - 1020 Fifth Avenue
Offsite-Box: 16, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
South Street Seaport, 1977-1989, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 14, Folder: 12-13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Stairs and Escalators
Offsite-Box: 15, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Frances Steloff, Gotham Book Mart
Offsite-Box: 15, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Streets and Avenues
Offsite-Box: 18, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subways, 1984-2018, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 10, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Terra Cotta
Offsite-Box: 15, Folder: 5-6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Thirty-fourth Street Reformed Church Jubilee Booklet, 1873, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 12, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Clarence True
Offsite-Box: 15, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Unbuilt Projects, 1957-2001, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Verona, 32 East 64th Street
Offsite-Box: 15, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Wendel Family, Fifth Avenue
Offsite-Box: 15, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
West End Avenue, 1990-2013, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 9-10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
West Side
Offsite-Box: 17, Folder: 9-10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Garret Ellis Winants, 1976, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 10, Folder: 10-11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Windermere, 400-406 West 57th Street, 1989-2005, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 5-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ida Wood
Offsite-Box: 22, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Woolworth Building
Offsite-Box: 15, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
World War II Ration Books, 1942-1943, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 10, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Zabar Thesis: "The Influence of W. E. D. Stokes's Real Estate Career on West Side Development,", 1977, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 15, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Contents
master's thesis by Lori Zabar [Photocopy]
William K. Zinsser
Offsite-Box: 15, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
351-355 Central Park West, 1987-1992, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 14, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
605 East Ninth Street, former P.S. 64, 2006, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 1-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
45 East 66th Street - Eclectic Elegance
Offsite-Box: 17, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
11 East 73rd Street - Pulitzer's Modified Mansion
Offsite-Box: 17, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
998 Fifth Avenue
Offsite-Box: 21, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
1010 Fifth Avenue
Offsite-Box: 17, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
1107 Fifth Avenue
Offsite-Box: 20, Folder: 9-11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
34 Gramercy Park
Offsite-Box: 16, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
270 Park Avenue, 2013, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 14, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
417 Park Avenue - Holdout House
Offsite-Box: 17, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
666 Park Avenue - Magnificent Maisonette
Offsite-Box: 17, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
820 Park Avenue
Offsite-Box: 19, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
1025 Park Avenue - Joyful Jacobethan
Offsite-Box: 16, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
1040 Park Avenue
Offsite-Box: 24, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
137 Riverside Drive - Hearst's Highrise
Offsite-Box: 17, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
44 West 77th Street - Gotham Gothic
Offsite-Box: 18, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
109 West Broadway/112 Reade Street, 1989, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
300 West 72nd Street
Offsite-Box: 15, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
55 White Street, 1987-1988, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 9, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Video Cassette] Andrew Haswell Green Television Coverage, undated, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 10, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)
Conditions Governing Use
Videotapes are restricted because of their fragility and because N-YHS has no equipment on which to play them.
[Video Cassette] Firebird Russian Restaurant, 365 West 46th Street, opening party, 1996, inclusive
Offsite-Box: 10, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)
Conditions Governing Use
Videotapes are restricted because of their fragility and because N-YHS has no equipment on which to play them.