This building sits on a former site of the New York State Normal College, predecessor to the University at Albany, which burned in 1906.
Scattered among the town houses of the area are a few large apartment buildings, notably the Ex-Lax Building on Atlantic Avenue, a former factory that was converted to a loft-style co-op in 1979.
The dome is higher than the United States Capitol's; a federal law prohibits a state's dome -- but not a city's -- from exceeding the Capitol's height....AND BEYOND The building stands on a former cemetery, which once covered about 10 acres in today's Civic Center area.
The building, constructed on a former parking lot a block from the main campus in Morningside Heights, is intended to serve as the focal point for the university's Jewish community and to end the days of scrambling to find places on a crowded campus for events and activities.
Next door, Berkeley Group's St James division will start building 1,465 homes on a former Marks & Spencer warehouse site next summer, set around a four-acre public park.
Before his encounter with the police, Charles was let into the building on Taylor Ave .by a former neighbor who recognized him.
The sign sits atop a building on a 19-acre former PepsiCo bottling site.
The building, a former office building on the east side of Fifth Avenue near East 41st Street, was sold last month by the Carlyle Group and Belfonti Capital Partners to an affiliate of Global Hyatt, the hotel holding company, for $136 million.
The building itself, a former cafe on the vibrant northern reaches of Bergenline Avenue, is a sort of neighborhood beacon, its spiffy stucco-and-terra-cotta facade gleaming like a playhouse on opening night.
Jobs wants to build one building that holds 12,000 people on a former Hewlett-Packard property".It's a little like a spaceship," Jobs says.
A smaller building on the former Brill platform, once a shelter for passengers waiting for Brill and down trains, was used first as a store then as a shop for a number of years before its current use to house an exhibit on the history of the Brill Tramway.
