This is a list of demolished buildings and structures in New York City. Over time, countless buildings have been built in what is now New York City. Some of them still stand today and can be viewed – however, many buildings have since been demolished. The reason for the demolition was often a lack of space; a larger building could fit. Many times the condition of the building was no longer adequate. The cost of building renovation is high, and demolition may have been easier.
Sometimes its style was outdated. However, opinions may change. Artistic standards of the time of construction, of demolition, of today, and of tomorrow may all disagree. Thus, many consider it detrimental to demolish buildings that were built to high artistic standards of their own time.
Accurate records of demolished buildings were not always preserved, so this list is presumably fragmentary.
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Banks, financial buildings
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
Brooklyn Savings Bank | 1894 | 1964 | ||
old New York Cotton Exchange[1] | 1885 | 1922 | ||
Merchants & Manufacturers Exchange Building[2] | 1911 | no data available | ||
Deutsche Bank Building | 1973 | 2011 | Severely damaged in September 11 attacks, eventually demolished as a result. | |
[1] | Gallatin Bank Building | 1887 | 1929 | |
[2] | Hanover Bank Building | 1903 | 1931 | |
New York Produce Exchange | 1884 | 1958 | ||
Old New York Produce Exchange[3] | 1861 | c. 1880 |
Churches
Christian churches
Synagogues
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
[3] | Temple Emanu-El (I)[4] | before 1847 | 1854 (?) | It used to function as a Baptist church. |
[4] | Temple Emanu-El (II)[4] | before 1854 | 1866 (?) | It used to function as a Baptist church. |
Temple Emanu-El (III) | 1868 | 1927 | Not confuse with the new Temple Emanu-El (built in 1930). | |
Temple Beth-El | 1891 | 1947 | ||
Synagogue in E63d Street | 1873 | before 1911 |
Forts
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
Fort Gansevoort | 1812 | 1854 | ||
Fort Lafayette | 1822 | 1960 |
Hospitals
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
St. John's Guild Seaside Hospital | 1879 | 1951 | for mothers and children | |
Parkchester General Hospital | 1941 | 1978 | ||
U.S. Army General Hospital No. 1 | 1917 | 1919 | ||
[5] | Doctors Hospital | 1929 | 2005 | |
[6] | Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic | early 1900s | 1990s | |
Rockefeller War Demonstration Hospital | 1917 | 1919 | ||
Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers | 1849 | 2010 |
Hotels
Industrial buildings
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
5 Pointz | 1892 | 2014 |
Mansions
Museums, exhibition space, libraries
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
New York Crystal Palace | 1853 | 1858 | ||
Barnum's American Museum | 1841 | 1868 | ||
Grand Central Palace | 1911 | 1964 | ||
Lenox Library | 1877 | 1912 |
Office buildings, tenement houses, skyscrapers
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
Thomas Jefferson Association Building | 1890 | 1960 | ||
Liggett Building[5] | 1922 | 2016 | ||
old (I) Trinity Court Building | 1879 | 1926 | Not to be confused with what still stands today Trinity Court Building (III). | |
old (II) Trinity Court Building[6] | 1927 | 2015 | Not to be confused with what still stands today Trinity Court Building (III). | |
Number One Wall Street[7] | 1880s/1890s (?) | 1928 | ||
Columbia Building[8] | 1890 | 1930 | ||
Transit Building[9] | 1902 | no data available | ||
Wolfe Building[10] | 1895 | 1974 | ||
German American Insurance Building[11] | 1908 | no data available | ||
Union Trust Building[12] | 1897 | no data available | ||
Commercial Cable Company Building[13] | 1897 | 1954 | ||
Washington Building[14] | 1885 | no data available | ||
Washington Life Building[15] | 1898 | 1969 | ||
old building in 99 Church Street | 1871 | c. 1950 | ||
99 Church Street[16] | 1950 | 2008 | ||
425 Park Avenue[17] | 1954 | 2016 | ||
Union Carbide & Carbon Building[18] | 1913 | 2001 | ||
Vanderbilt Avenue Building[19] | 1913 | 2016 | ||
Blair Building | 1903 | 1955 | ||
City Investing Building | 1908 | 1968 | ||
Equitable Life Building | 1868 | 1912 | ||
Gillender Building | 1897 | 1910 | ||
Harding Building | 1910 | 1927 | ||
Kaskel and Kaskel Building | 1902 | 2017 | ||
Kemble Building | 1886 | 1949 | ||
Manhattan Life Insurance Building | 1894 | 1964 | ||
Mills Building | 1882 | 1925 | ||
New York Coliseum | 1956 | 2000 | ||
New York World Building | 1890 | 1955 | ||
New York Tribune Building | 1875 | 1966 | ||
Parker Building | 1900 | 1908 | ||
Prudence Building | 1923 | 2016 | ||
Rogers Peet Building | 1863 | 1898 | ||
Singer Building | 1908 | 1969 | ||
St. Paul Building | 1898 | 1958 | ||
Studebaker Building | 1902 | 2004 | ||
Tenth Street Studio Building | 1857 | 1956 | ||
Tower Building | 1889 | 1913 | ||
Union Carbide Building | 1960 | 2021 | ||
Western Union Telegraph Building | 1892 | 1912 | ||
World Trade Center | 1973 | 2001 | Destroyed in 9/11 attacks. | |
5 World Trade Center | 1970 | 2001 | Severely damaged in 9/11 attacks, torn down soon after. |
Operas
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
Academy of Music | 1854 | 1926 | ||
Astor Opera House | 1847 | 1890 | ||
Grand Opera House | 1868 | 1960 | ||
Harlem Opera House | 1889 | 1959 | ||
Metropolitan Opera House (39th Street) | 1883 | 1967 |
Prisons
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
Jefferson Market Prison | 1877 | 1927 | ||
The Tombs (I) | 1838 | 1902 | ||
Ludlow Street Jail | 1862 | 1927 | ||
The Tombs (II) | 1902 | 1941 |
Railway stations
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
Pelham Bay Naval Training Station | 1917 | 1919 | ||
Chambers Street Ferry Terminal | 1856 | 1858 | ||
Cortlandt Street Ferry Depot | no data available | no data available | ||
Hudson Terminal | 1909 | 1972 | ||
Liberty Street Ferry Terminal | 1865 | 1970s | ||
26th Street terminal | 1857 | 1869 | ||
Grand Central Depot | 1871 | c. 1903 | ||
Pennsylvania Station | 1910 | 1963 |
Shopping malls
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
Hylan Plaza | 1966 | 2017 | ||
Astor Market | 1915 | 1917 | ||
Frederick Douglass Book Center | 1942 | 1968 | ||
Gunther Building (Fifth Avenue) | 1909 | 1943 |
Stadiums, sport buildings
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
Louis Armstrong Stadium (1978–2016) | 1978 | 2016 | ||
Shea Stadium | 1964 | 2009 | ||
Yankee Stadium (1923) | 1922 | 2010 | ||
St. George Cricket Grounds | 1886 | after 1889 | ||
Madison Square Garden (I) | 1879 | 1890 | ||
Madison Square Garden (II) | 1890 | 1926 | ||
Madison Square Garden (III) | 1925 | 1969 | ||
Polo Grounds | 1890 | 1963 | ||
Lewisohn Stadium |
Theatres
Villages
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
New Brighton Village Hall | 1871 | 2004 | ||
Alexander Macomb House | 1788 | 1940 |
Other buildings
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
42nd Street Airlines Terminal | 1941 | 1978 | ||
Central Park Casino | 1862 | 1936 | ||
Federal Hall | 1703 | 1812 | ||
Pearl Street Station | before 1882 | 1890 | ||
The Rotunda | 1818 | 1870 | ||
Tontine Coffee House | 1793 | 1905 | ||
old New York City Criminal Courts Building | 1893 | 1941 | ||
City Hall Post Office and Courthouse |
Other structures
Image
|
Name
|
Date built
|
Date of demolition
|
Comment
|
---|---|---|---|---|
Dewey Arch | 1899 | 1900 | ||
Latting Observatory | 1853 | 1856 | ||
Lincoln Arcade | 1903 | 1960 | ||
Macombs Dam | c. 1814 | c. 1858 | ||
Putnam Bridge | 1881 | 1958 |
References
- ^ "New York Architecture Images- Cotton Exchange".
- ^ "New York Architecture Images- Merchants & Manufacturers Exchange Building".
- ^ "New York Architecture Images- New York Produce Exchange".
- ^ a b "Congregation Emanu-El - New York City".
- ^ "Liggett Building, New York City | 114365". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ "New York Architecture Images- Trinity Court Building formerly known as American Bank Note Building".
- ^ "New York Architecture Images- Number One Wall Street".
- ^ "New York Architecture Images- Columbia Building".
- ^ "New York Architecture Images- Transit Building".
- ^ "New York Architecture Images- Wolfe Building".
- ^ "New York Architecture Images- German American Insurance Building".
- ^ "New York Architecture Images- Union Trust Building".
- ^ "Commercial Cable Building - the Skyscraper Center".
- ^ "New York Architecture Images- WASHINGTON BUILDING".
- ^ "Washington Life Building - the Skyscraper Center".
- ^ "99 Church Street, New York City | 149066". Emporis. Archived from the original on May 7, 2016. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ "425 Park Avenue, New York City | 115199". Emporis. Archived from the original on July 26, 2016. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ "Union Carbide & Carbon Building, New York City | 102469". Emporis. 2001-01-21. Archived from the original on May 8, 2016. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ "Vanderbilt Avenue Building, New York City | 116385". Emporis. Archived from the original on April 18, 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
Literature
- Nathan Silver: Lost New York, Rare Book Cellar, 1967, First Edition; Third Printing, ISBN 9780517167038
- Kathrens, Michael C. (2005). Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930. New York: Acanthus Press. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-926494-34-3.
Related pages
Other links
- https://www.bygonely.com/new-york-city-demolished-buildings-landmarks/
- https://ny.curbed.com/2019/12/12/21011629/new-york-buildings-demolition-decade-photo-essay
- https://www.nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON.htm
- https://www.businessinsider.com/demolished-new-york-buildings-2014-9
- https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63413/15-new-york-citys-lost-landmarks
- https://hu.pinterest.com/gerrygouy/demolished-new-york/
- http://stuffnobodycaresabout.com/2015/06/10/20-historic-buildings-that-were-demolished/