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This pensive figure by Henry Kirke Brown was commissioned shortly after the president’s assassination in 1865.

Raymond Hood’s first New York skyscraper is an ornate black tower built in 1924, now a hotel.

This 1908 apartment-hotel included soundproof partitions, a feature that has attracted many distinguished musicians.

Modeled after an Italian Renaissance palazzo, this luxury 1908 building includes a huge interior courtyard.

Even larger than the Apthorp, this 1908 Renaissance Revival structure is where Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer lived and wrote.

Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie financed the city’s first great concert hall, built in 1891. Major renovation in 1996 restored the wonderful interior bronze balconies and ornamental plaster, and added a museum. Corridors are lined with memorabilia of the great artists who have performed here (see Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Hall).

The world’s largest cathedral was begun in 1892 and is still a work in progress. The part-Romanesque, part-Gothic building is impressive for its stonework, enormous nave, bay altar windows, and rose window. The seat of New York’s Episcopal archdiocese, the church is the scene of many avant-garde musical and theatrical events (see Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine).

Irwin Chanin’s second twin tower, the tallest on the block, and an Art Deco icon.

One of the great early Art Deco skyscrapers (c.1929) notable for its terra-cotta frieze and bronze band illustrating the theory of evolution.

Arthur became the 21st President when James Garfield was assassinated. George Edwin Bissell sculpted him in 1898, standing in front of an elaborate chair.