One Thousand New York Buildings

Landmarks of New York in a nutshell!Awesome. It would have been great if all pictures in this book were in color. Anyway your expectations will be fulfilled. I am going to New York. This book familiarizes me with New York's terrain. Go for it!

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Every once in a while I'll walk down a street of my busy city and spot a building that I'd never seen before, or, if I had seen it, never paid it much mind. But something about it--its age or its architecture--tells me that there's a story to be told about it. Judith Dupre, Bill Harris, and photographer Jorg Brockmann in their monumental book, "One Thousand New York Buildings", fill in the gaps left behind in the AIA books.There are hundreds of buildings that, for whatever reason, have escaped landmark status and/or the attention of New Yorkers. Although "One Thousand New York Buildings" does discuss the familiar structures, like the Empire State Building, the Woolworth Building, and Grand Central Station, it also devotes equal time to those that have been ignored or overlooked. What are those tiny, Colonial style houses on Harrison and Greenwich Streets? How old is that building at 2 White Street? Who lived in those somber buildings at 130-132 MacDougal Street? "One Thousand New York Buildings" answers these and hundreds of other questions. In this sense, this book is much like "New York Streetscapes: Tales of Manhattan's Significant Buidlings and Landmarks" by Christopher Gray and Suzanne Braley, in as much as it pays equal tribute to the famous and not so famous structures.One last note, this is a solidly put together book. The binding is sturdy, the paper thick and glossy, and the photos are clear and intriguing. It as well constructed as the buildings they pay homage to.

I discovered & ordered this book twenty years after it was published. It’s amazing, and although the photos are all b&w, the research and admiration for the subjects is apparent. Very glad I found it!

This is a remarkable cataloging of building in the five boroughs of New York, both great and small. Walking the streets of New York is a visual treat for anyone interested in architecture, and this well photographed and well written volume is a must.

I have not gone through this book fully .. but from the little I did, the book sounds great ... it provides a lot of information about historical buildings in NYC. What I am not sure of, is the selection of the buildings.