3 East 57th Street

Midtown | built 1930

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1930

    September 25

    The L. P. Hollander Company opens its new Art Deco store

    William F. Lamb of Shreve, Lamb & Harmon is the architect of this nine-story store, built for the L. P. Hollander Company, a clothing retailer founded in Boston in 1848. It opens on September 25, 1930, and in 1931 the Fifth Avenue Association gives it a gold medal as the best building put up in its district the year before. Less than two years after moving in, Hollander declares bankruptcy in February 1932.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1939

    Stouffer's restaurant remodels the building's lower floors in white marble

    Stouffer's signs a 21-year lease in December 1939 to open a restaurant here. Architect Aymar Embury II redesigns the two lowest floors with a white-marble facade and adds a mezzanine. The restaurant opens in 1940 and stays until its lease expires in August 1961, when a home-furnishing store takes over the space.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 2003

    June 17

    The city designates 3 East 57th Street a landmark

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates 3 East 57th Street a New York City landmark on June 17, 2003. A Yves Saint Laurent store opens in the building the same year. By then the building has seen a long run of tenants after Hollander left in the early 1930s.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2015

    October

    Saint Laurent reopens its boutique after a 259-day renovation

    Saint Laurent reopens its 57th Street store in October 2015 after a 259-day renovation. The work expands the boutique from two stories to three. The base is resurfaced in white granite over the opposition of Manhattan Community Board 5.

    Source: Wikipedia

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