The American Thread Building is a historic building located at 260 West Broadway on the corner of Beach Street in the TriBeCa neighborhood of lower Manhattan , New York City . The eleven story building was designed in the Renaissance Revival style by architect William B. Tubby , and built in 1896. It was originally known as the Wool Exchange Building , and owned by the Wool Warehouse Company. The wool company did not succeed and the building was acquired by the American Thread Company in 1907.
18-621: In 1979 a group of young artist made a stand against real estate developer Harry B. Macklowe . He emptied a 93% occupied building of its rent paying tenants with the help of the J51 tax abatement offered by then NYC mayor Ed Koch. It was a lost battle in the New York City courts and the building was renovated and converted into live/work lofts in 1981. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 20, 2005. In 2007,
36-510: A brother Joseph and sister Miriam. He graduated in 1972 from Yale University , where he studied architectural history under Vincent Scully , and has a Doctoral degree (honorary), New York School Interior Design; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Miami, 2004 and a Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Kenyon College, 2005. A resident of the Midtown East in Manhattan, Goldberger
54-491: A developer and we do the architecture ourselves". Several architectural critics, social media influencers, and journalists have commented on 432 Park Avenue's "ugly" design. After 432 Park Avenue was completed in the late 2010s, there were allegations of structural deficiencies, such as leaks and defective elevators, in the building. A proposed Macklowe Properties building, Tower Fifth , has similarly received backlash for its unattractive design; several critics claimed Macklowe
72-666: A doctor's daughter. She worked as an editorial assistant at Doubleday. Together, they moved into a garden apartment in Brooklyn, where Harry developed an interest in the landlord’s brownstone-renovation business, and the landlord encouraged 21-year-old Harry, steering him into the job as a real estate broker. Macklowe quickly transitioned from broker to builder. Keenly interested in architecture and modern art, he soon became known for developing sleek modernistic buildings such as Metropolitan Tower , as well as for his starkly white minimalist offices. His firm, Macklowe Properties, owns or has owned
90-463: A number of New York buildings including 400 Madison Avenue , 540 Madison Avenue, Drake Hotel (which he demolished to make way for 432 Park Avenue ), Hotel Macklowe , and Two Grand Central Tower. In 1985, Macklowe was fined $ 2 million for demolishing four buildings in Times Square in the middle of the night. In 2003, Macklowe bought General Motors Building for a record $ 1.4 billion. The value of
108-523: A renovation of one of the units uncovered an early work by artist Keith Haring . This article about a historic property or district in Manhattan , New York City , that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places , is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a building or structure in Manhattan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Harry B. Macklowe Harry B. Macklowe (born 1937)
126-530: Is an American real estate developer and investor based in New York City. Macklowe was born to a Jewish family, the son of a garment executive from Westchester County , New York. He graduated from New Rochelle High School in 1955, and attended the University of Alabama , New York University , and the School of Visual Arts before dropping out, in 1960, to become a real estate broker. In 1959, he married Linda Burg,
144-507: Is widowed by Susan L. Solomon (1951-2022) with whom he had three sons, David Solomon Goldberger, Adam Hirsh Goldberger and Benjamin James Solomon Goldberger. He's lived in numerous notable buildings in New York City, including The Dakota ; The San Remo ; The Beresford by Emery Roth and 870 United Nations Plaza by Harrison & Abramovitz . Shortly after starting as a reporter at The New York Times in 1972, Goldberger
162-668: The Blackstone Group . He used $ 50 million of his own money and financed the rest with $ 7 billion in short-term loans (due in February 2008) from Deutsche Bank and the publicly traded hedge fund the Fortress Investment Group . In early 2008, he failed to refinance a $ 5.8 billion loan from Deutsche Bank and lost all seven buildings. Among the buildings forfeited were the General Motors Building (which collateralized
180-639: The New York Times (1997-) and columnist of Sky Line for The New Yorker . In 1984, while at the New York Times, Goldberger received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism , the highest award in journalism. Paul Jesse Goldberger was born on December 4, 1950 in Passaic, New Jersey, the son of Morris Goldberger (English teacher, 1924-2006) and Edna Goldberger (née Kronman, 1924-2009} along with
198-629: The American fashion designer Tory Burch . In 2004, William married Julie Lerner in a Jewish ceremony at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. Elizabeth was married to and divorced from Kent Swig, son of fellow real estate developer Melvin Swig . Paul Goldberger Paul Goldberger (born December 4, 1950) is an American author, architecture critic and lecturer — widely known as contributing editor at Vanity Fair , architectural critic for
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#1732898120267216-643: The city's Preservation Achievement Award in recognition of the impact of his work on historic preservation. Goldberger is also the author of the book Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York and The City Observed, New York, a Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan . In a May 2005 New Yorker column, he suggested that the best solution for rebuilding at Ground Zero would focus on residential use mixed with cultural and memorial elements. From July 2004 until June 2006, Goldberger served as
234-545: The high-profile divorce, the pair's extensive collection of artwork from artists such as Alberto Giacometti , Mark Rothko and Cy Twombly was auctioned off by Sotheby's in two parts as part of a court order in November 2021. Estimated at around a $ 600 million value, the first half of the collection sold for even more; at auction, it brought in $ 676 million. Sotheby's called it the most valuable single-owner auction ever conducted. On May 16, 2022, when Sotheby's held part two of
252-533: The loan) and the Credit Lyonnais Building . Several Macklowe developments have received criticism when they were developed. For instance, when Metropolitan Tower was developed in the late 1980s, Paul Goldberger called it "the least respectful of the architectural traditions" in its vicinity, The comments about Metropolitan Tower in particular led Macklowe to express dissatisfaction at architectural criticism directed toward his buildings "just because I'm
270-521: The sale, the auction house hit what it called a record for a private art collection sold at auction, bringing the total to $ 922 million, with fees. The Macklowes have two children: William S. Macklowe and Elizabeth Macklowe. William replaced his father as President of Macklowe Properties in 2008. He and his wife belong to the Jewish Center of the Hamptons synagogue. In 1993, William married and divorced
288-476: The skyscraper soon doubled after he persuaded Apple to build a subterranean Apple retail store beneath the building's plaza , an idea he personally and successfully pitched to Steve Jobs . Jobs then proposed that the entrance to the sunken store be a 32-foot tall-glass cube, which the city approved and was opened to the public in 2006. In February 2007, during the peak of the real estate market, Macklowe purchased seven Manhattan skyscrapers for $ 6.8 billion from
306-456: Was "ruining" the New York skyline. On January 4, 1959, Macklowe married Linda Burg. After over 50 years of marriage in 2016, Burg filed for divorce. In 2019 after a contentious, $ 2 billion divorce, he remarried to Patricia Lazar-Landeau. Macklowe put a massive picture of himself and his new wife on the corner of 432 Park Avenue, in what was widely seen as an insult to his former wife. Following
324-521: Was assigned to write the obituary of noted architect Louis Kahn , who had died suddenly of a heart attack in New York Penn Station . In 1973, he was named an architecture critic, working alongside Ada Louise Huxtable until 1982. In 1984, Goldberger won the Pulitzer Prize for his architecture criticism in The Times, and in 1996, New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani presented Goldberger with
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