Milton Glaser Inc.
207 East 32nd Street | Kips Bay | built 1920
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1895
An earlier clubhouse on the site hosts a pivotal Tammany vote
Before today's building rose, an older brownstone on the site served as headquarters of the Tammany Central Association. There, on September 21, 1895, members elected leader Richard Crocker a delegate to the Democratic State Convention, several years before he resigned from Tammany's leadership.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1902
Robert T. Lyons designs a Beaux-Arts clubhouse for Tammany Hall
The Tammany Central Association, a local Democratic club organized in 1888 by Richard Crocker and James P. Keating, hired architect Robert T. Lyons in June 1901 to replace its old brownstone with a $40,000 Beaux-Arts clubhouse, completed in 1902 with a rusticated limestone base and a dormered mansard roof.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1911
A municipal court moves into the clubhouse
The Tammany association later decided to move to another location and, in 1911, leased its clubhouse to the city for the Fourth District Municipal Court, which used the space until 1939.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1968
Milton Glaser and Clay Felker launch New York magazine here
Graphic designer Milton Glaser and editor Clay Felker founded New York magazine at 207 East 32nd Street in 1968, three years after Glaser and Seymour Chwast had bought the building for their Push Pin Studios. Ms. magazine debuted here in 1971 as an insert before the block was renamed Ms. Magazine Way in 2017.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2020
The New York Review of Books buys the building
In 2020 The New York Review of Books purchased 207 East 32nd Street for $7.5 million, moving its editorial offices into the former Tammany clubhouse in the fall of 2023.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- 207 East 32nd StreetWikipedia
- The Tammany Central Assoc. Clubhouse -- 207 East 32nd StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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