Lefcourt Art Deco Lobby
Lefcourt Clothing Center
275 7th Avenue, NYC
by navema
This 1929 building, put up by Garment District developer Abraham E. Lefcourt, originally housed garment shops; now houses the garment workers' union UNITE-HERE. On the ground floor are Organic Market, health food store; City Food Bar; Urban Leather Outlet.
Abraham E. Lefcourt (1877-1932), better known as A.E. Lefcourt, was a prominent real estate developer in New York City in the 1920s. All but forgotten today, in his lifetime Lefcourt was known as the one of the city's most prolific developers of Art Deco buildings. Describing Lefcourt in a 1930 newspaper article, The New York Times said, "No other individual or building organization has constructed in its own behalf as many buildings as are in the Lefcourt Group."
Mr. Lefcourt earned his first dollar as a bootblack, grew up in the garment trades, succeeded there and went on to twenty or so skyscrapers, more or less with other people's money. For twenty years he averaged one skyscraper a year, in the course of which he destroyed more landmarks than any other New Yorker, among them the Spanish Flats in Central Park South, said to have been the city's first apartment houses. Touched by the Napoleonic complex, he named eight or nine of his buildings after himself, until the midtown areas were spotted with Lefcourt this and Lefcourt that. He even had his own bank. In a single year he had $50,000,000 worth of buildings under way. Fortunately he hired good architects; his works remain and are worthy.
Among Lefcourt's more notable real estate development projects:
* Brill Building, 1619 Broadway, New York, NY
* Lefcourt Building/Raymond Commerce Building, 1172-1182 Raymond Boulevard, Newark, NJ
* Lefcourt Colonial Building, 295 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
* Lefcourt Empire Building, 989 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
* Lefcourt Madison Building, 16 East 34th Street, New York, NY
* Lefcourt Manhattan Building, 1412 Broadway, New York, New York
* Lefcourt National Building, 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
* Lefcourt Normandie Building, 1383 Broadway, New York, NY
* Lefcourt State Building, 1375 Broadway, New York, NY
Lefcourt Art Deco Lobby
Lefcourt Clothing Center
275 7th Avenue, NYC
by navema
This 1929 building, put up by Garment District developer Abraham E. Lefcourt, originally housed garment shops; now houses the garment workers' union UNITE-HERE. On the ground floor are Organic Market, health food store; City Food Bar; Urban Leather Outlet.
Abraham E. Lefcourt (1877-1932), better known as A.E. Lefcourt, was a prominent real estate developer in New York City in the 1920s. All but forgotten today, in his lifetime Lefcourt was known as the one of the city's most prolific developers of Art Deco buildings. Describing Lefcourt in a 1930 newspaper article, The New York Times said, "No other individual or building organization has constructed in its own behalf as many buildings as are in the Lefcourt Group."
Mr. Lefcourt earned his first dollar as a bootblack, grew up in the garment trades, succeeded there and went on to twenty or so skyscrapers, more or less with other people's money. For twenty years he averaged one skyscraper a year, in the course of which he destroyed more landmarks than any other New Yorker, among them the Spanish Flats in Central Park South, said to have been the city's first apartment houses. Touched by the Napoleonic complex, he named eight or nine of his buildings after himself, until the midtown areas were spotted with Lefcourt this and Lefcourt that. He even had his own bank. In a single year he had $50,000,000 worth of buildings under way. Fortunately he hired good architects; his works remain and are worthy.
Among Lefcourt's more notable real estate development projects:
* Brill Building, 1619 Broadway, New York, NY
* Lefcourt Building/Raymond Commerce Building, 1172-1182 Raymond Boulevard, Newark, NJ
* Lefcourt Colonial Building, 295 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
* Lefcourt Empire Building, 989 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
* Lefcourt Madison Building, 16 East 34th Street, New York, NY
* Lefcourt Manhattan Building, 1412 Broadway, New York, New York
* Lefcourt National Building, 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
* Lefcourt Normandie Building, 1383 Broadway, New York, NY
* Lefcourt State Building, 1375 Broadway, New York, NY