West End-Collegiate Historic District Extension Designation Report June 25, 2013 Cover Photographs (clockwise): 215 to 233 West 70th Street (Clarence True, 1983-94) 258 to 266 West 71st Street (M. V. B. Ferdon, 1892) Streetscape of West End Avenue [view north from West 71st Street, 243 West End Avenue in the foreground (Emery Roth, 1925)] Christopher D. Brazee, 2013 WEST END-COLLEGIATE HISTORIC DISTRICT EXTENSION Designation Report Essay researched and written by Cynthia Danza Architects’ Appendix researched and written by Jennifer L. Most Building Profiles by Cynthia Danza and Jennifer L. Most Edited by Mary Beth Betts, Director of Research and Virginia Kurshan Photographs by Christopher D. Brazee Map by Jennifer L. Most Additional Research by Kelly Hovelsrud Commissioners Robert B. Tierney, Chair Pablo E. Vengoechea, Vice-Chair Frederick Bland Christopher Moore Diana Chapin Margery Perlmutter Michael Devonshire Elizabeth Ryan Joan Gerner Roberta Washington Michael Goldblum Kate Daly, Executive Director Mark Silberman, Counsel Sarah Carroll, Director of Preservation TABLE OF CONTENTS WEST-END COLLEGIATE HISTORIC DISTRICT EXTENSION MAP………..…facing page 1 TESTIMONY AT THE PUBLIC HEARING ................................................................................ 1 SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................... 4 THE HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST END- COLLEGIATE HISTORIC DISTRICT EXTENSION .................................................................. 5 Early History of the Upper West Side ........................................................................................ 5 Late 19th Century Development in the Historic District Extension ............................................ 7 Residential Row Houses Development ....................................................................................... 9 Flats ........................................................................................................................................... 13 Religious and Institutional Buildings ........................................................................................ 14 Early 20th Century Development in the Historic District Extension ........................................ 16 Apartment Houses and Apartment Hotels ................................................................................ 17 Riverside-West End Historic District Extension Between the World Wars ............................. 19 Post-World War II Era and 21st Century .................................................................................. 20 FINDINGS AND DESIGNATION .............................................................................................. 22 BUILDING PROFILES ................................................................................................................ 25 Broadway (Odd Numbers) ........................................................................................................ 25 Riverside Drive ......................................................................................................................... 27 West 70 Street (Odd Numbers) ................................................................................................. 34 West 71 Street (Odd Numbers) ................................................................................................. 52 West 71 Street (Even Numbers) ............................................................................................... 69 West 72 Street (Odd Numbers) ................................................................................................. 93 West 72 Street (Even Numbers) ............................................................................................. 109 West 73 Street (Odd Numbers) ............................................................................................... 131 West 73 Street (Even Numbers) ............................................................................................. 137 West 74 Street (Odd Numbers) ............................................................................................... 160 West 74 Street (Even Numbers) ............................................................................................. 164 West 75 Street (Odd Numbers) ............................................................................................... 171 West 75 Street (Even Numbers) ............................................................................................. 175 West 76 Street (Odd Numbers) ............................................................................................... 182 West 76 Street (Even Numbers) ............................................................................................. 183 West 77 Street (Odd Numbers) ............................................................................................... 187 West 78 Street (Odd Numbers) ............................................................................................... 191 West 78 Street (Even Numbers) ............................................................................................. 193 West 79 Street (Even Numbers) ............................................................................................. 196 West End Avenue (Odd Numbers) ......................................................................................... 198 West End Avenue (Even Numbers) ........................................................................................ 213 ARCHITECTS’ APPENDIX ...................................................................................................... 231 ILLUSTRATIONS ..................................................................................................................... 280 West End-Collegiate Historic District Extension Landmarks Preservation Commission W 79 St West End-Collegiate 6 320 3 250 7 3 9 9 9 1 0 3 2 Historic District Extension 2 1 9 3 Borough of Manhattan, NY [LP-2462] Calendared: November 16, 2010 339 317 257 251 340 324 262 W 78 St 250 Public Hearing: June 28, 2011 Designated: June 25, 2013 Boundary of District Extension 2 3 1 5 6 0 8 Tax Map Lots, District Extension 0 1 343 323 273 W 77 St 233 Boundaries of Existing Districts Tax Map Lots, Existing Districts West End-Collegiate 2 1 6 Historic District 9 Existing Historic Districts Historic District Extension 241 235 3 260 W 76 St 230 3 B 6 ronx 2 1 3 9 259 235 H W 75 St e 304 228 A 5 W n 1 R m 3 r e Manhattan y B i s v s r t H e e t o r per West Side/ r Up E u a s d d d i n d a Queens w s t d Central Park Wes e m o a A n D y A Historic District v r P v y 301 W 74 St 231 Brooklyn 1 320 232 5 319 251 320 W 73 St 232 1 311 233 W 72 St 344 214 West 71st Street Historic District 357 353 303 213 352 342 308 W 71 St 212 2 1 2 2 250 0 2 Feet 303 211 ¯ W 70 St Graphic Source: MapPLUTO, Edition 09v1, 2009. Author: Landmarks Preservation Commission, JM. Date: June 25, 2013. F r e e d o m P l Landmarks Preservation Commission June 25, 2013, Designation List 465 LP-2462 TESTIMONY AT THE PUBLIC HEARING On June 28, 2011, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation of the West End-Collegiate Historic District Extension (Item No. 16). The hearing had been duly advertised in accordance with the provision of law. 22 witnesses spoke in favor of the designation as proposed, including Council Member Gale Brewer and State Senator Adriano Espaillat, and representatives of Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer, State Senator Thomas K. Duane, Manhattan Community Board 7, Historic Districts Council, New York Landmarks Conservancy, West End Preservation Society, Coalition for the Upper West Side, State Senator Bill Perkins, Landmarks West, Committee for Environmentally Sound Development, and the Collegiate School, as well as residents and neighbors. 15 witnesses spoke in opposition to the designation including a representative of the Real Estate Board of New York, owners and/or representatives of the owners who were opposed to including their specific properties (11 Riverside Drive, 214 West 72nd Street, and Rutgers Presbyterian Church) in the proposed extension, representatives of the owner of 300 West 72nd Street who requested that the building be deemed a no style building, and the owners of properties (255 West 70th Street, 255- 269 West 71st Street and 235 West 76th Street) who thought the extension was too large. The Commission received two letters, a petition submitted by the West 80s Neighborhood Association with 43 signatures, and ten emails in support of the proposed designation. The Commission received two letters from owners who were opposed to including their specific properties (231 and 233 West 74th Street and 228 and 230 West 75th Street) in the proposed extension, and two emails, including one from an owner who was opposed to including their specific property (246 West 71st Street) in the proposed extension, in opposition to the designation. WEST END-COLLEGIATE HISTORIC DISTRICT EXTENSION BOUNDARY Area I of the West End-Collegiate Historic District Extension consists of the property bounded by a line beginning at the southeast corner of West 77th Street and Riverside Drive, easterly along the southern curbline of West 77th Street to a point on a line extending southerly from the eastern property line of 323-327 West 77th Street, northerly along said line and the eastern