NEW YORK | 1710 Broadway | 633 FT | 54 FLOORS - Page 6

Busy Bee · #**101** Posted **Apr 16, 2024, 10:34 PM**

It was designed by the legendary Albert Kahn and architecturally it was quite unique for NYC with an understated elegance reminiscent of 1920/30s continental Europe early modernism. Plus it had a compelling history. You can read more about it in the previous posts and on Daytonian in Manhattan.

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ChiND · #**102** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 3:29 PM**

I would have liked to see this preserved.

Didn’t RIU Hotels buy it? Most of their projects are horrendous. I’m concerned about getting a 500’+ eyesore.

Busy Bee · #**103** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 3:46 PM**

As am I

fadedgrandeur · #**104** Posted **Apr 22, 2024, 8:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by jackster99

I don't get it, I don't think this building was that special? Quite short and not much ornate ornamentation from what I can tell. There have been way more tragic teardowns, Calvary Baptist, the Bancroft building, and the Rizzoli bookstore on 57th come to mind. Made even worse by the fact that they are still empty lots or being replaced with something banal.

This might be replaced with something soaring and iconic.

I wouldn't call it among the greatest losses the city has seen, but definitely something that would have been worth keeping around.