The Sofia

Building in Manhattan, New York

This article is about the building in New York City. For other uses, see Sofia (disambiguation).

The Sofia

View from 61st Street and Columbus Avenue

Former names| Kent Automatic Garage, Sofia Brothers Warehouse
Alternative names| Sofia Apartments
General information
Type| Condominium
Architectural style| Art Deco
Address| 43 West 61st Street
Town or city| Manhattan, New York
Country| United States
Coordinates| 40°46′14″N 73°59′00″W﻿ / ﻿40.77056°N 73.98333°W﻿ / 40.77056; -73.98333
Construction started| 1929
Completed| 1930
Height| 285 ft (87 m)
Technical details
Structural system| Steel superstructure
Floor count| 27
Design and construction
Architect(s)| Jardine, Hill & Murdock

Sofia Warehouse

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

New York City Landmark No. 1239

Area| 14,059 sq ft (1,306 m2)
NRHP reference No.| 84002801[1]
NYCL No.| 1239
Significant dates
Added to NRHP| September 27, 1984
Designated NYCL| April 12, 1983
References
"Emporis building ID 115241". Emporis. Archived from the original on June 24, 2022.

The Sofia (formerly the Kent Automatic Garage and the Sofia Brothers Warehouse) is a condominium building at the corner of Columbus Avenue and 61st Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was constructed from 1929 to 1930 and was designed by the firm of Jardine, Hill & Murdock in the Art Deco style for Kent Automatic Garages. The Sofia is 27 stories tall; the first nine stories above the ground level are used as offices, while the top 17 stories contain residential condominiums. The building is a New York City designated landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.

The building originally functioned as a 1,000-spot garage, with a gas station at the corner of Columbus Avenue and 61st Street. The ground level contains multiple entrances, surrounded by multicolored pieces of terracotta. There was a vehicular entrance on Columbus Avenue and an exit on 61st Street. On the upper floors, the facade is made largely of orange brick, interspersed with bands of black brick, and there are several setbacks with terracotta parapets. The building contains an extremely strong steel superstructure inside. Originally, the building had large vehicular elevators, as well as electric trolleys on each floor, which automatically transported vehicles to parking spots. Since the 1980s, the building has contained 94 apartments, ranging from studio apartments to three-bedroom units.

Kent Automatic Garages bought the site from automobile company Packard in 1928, and the garage opened on July 30, 1930. Kent obtained various loans to finance the building's construction but lost the building to foreclosure within a year. The building was then acquired by the Central Savings Bank in 1936 and by the Sofia Brothers Warehousing Company in 1944. The Sofia family converted the building into a warehouse, though the structure also housed offices and studios. Aaron Green and Growth Realty Companies bought the building for $9.3 million in August 1983 and converted it into a residential and commercial condominium over the next year. College Board occupied the commercial portion of the building from the 1980s until 2015, when Fordham University acquired the commercial space.

## Site

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The Sofia is at the northeast corner of Columbus Avenue and 61st Street, two blocks northwest of Columbus Circle, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It has two addresses: 45 Columbus Avenue to the west and 43 West 61st Street to the south.[2][3] The building occupies a rectangular land lot of 14,059 sq ft (1,306 m2), with a frontage of 144 ft (44 m) on Columbus Avenue and 100 ft (30 m) on 61st Street.[3] The building originally surrounded a gas station at the corner of Columbus Avenue and 61st Street.[4][5]

The surrounding section of Columbus Avenue contains many residential buildings, including a 30-story apartment house directly north of the Sofia.[6] The building is on the same block as Park Loggia to the east, and it faces the Fordham University School of Law to the west. In addition, the David H. Koch Theater of the Lincoln Center performing-arts complex is one block north.[3]

## Architecture

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The Sofia was designed by Jardine, Hill & Murdock and was built for Kent Automatic Garages as a parking garage. The building was designed in the Art Deco style[7][8][9] and is the only building that Jardine, Hill & Murdock is known to have designed in that style.[10][11] It is also the only large Art Deco parking garage that is known to have been constructed in New York City.[9] The modern structure is 27 stories high and contains both residences and offices.[12] Historically, the building has been cited as having 24,[13][14] 25,[15] or 26 stories.[16][17] The building's main roof is 242 ft (74 m) above ground level, while its pinnacle is 285 ft (87 m) high.[18]

### Facade

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#### Lower stories

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The Sofia's main entrance, on the Columbus Avenue elevation of the facade, contains a two-story-high frame made of multicolored pieces of terracotta.[6][10][12] The main entrance is extremely wide[11] because, when the building was used as a garage, the main entrance was used as an entry ramp for vehicles.[4][6][10] The modern-day entrance functions as a doorway to the offices inside the building.[12] Immediately above the entryway are multicolored Art Deco chevrons and medallions, which are inspired by Aztec designs.[6][10][11] The two-story frame on Columbus Avenue is flanked by black bands of brick. A similar band, decorated with chevrons, runs above the third floor.[6]

The 61st Street side also contained a wide exit ramp from the garage.[4][11] There are also one- and two-story terracotta frames on 61st Street, which originally led to the offices[19] but later led to the residences.[12] From 1943 until the early 1980s, the south elevation also had a one-story annex.[20]

#### Upper stories

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On the upper stories, the facade is divided vertically into multiple bays and is composed of orange bricks. Each story is separated by horizontal courses of black bricks, which run directly below the lintels of the windows.[6][10] The outer bays contained wide 12-paned metal sash windows, originally divided into a transom above and a hopper below.[10][20] The three center bays contain smaller sash windows, separated vertically by slightly projecting piers.[10] The Columbus Avenue elevation has setbacks with parapets at the 15th, 22nd, and 25th stories;[6] there is also a parapet just below the roof.[10][12] Each of the parapets is decorated with blue-and-white terracotta as well as cast stone ornament, which resemble the decoration above the main entrance.[5][6][10] Above the 15th story, the windows on different stories are separated by spandrel panels with black horizontal or vertical bands.[6][10] The three center bays are articulated with projecting vertical piers of brick, which end at terracotta parapets.[6] The windows on the Columbus Avenue elevation were widened in the 1980s.[21]

The south elevation on 61st Street was originally a blank wall without windows.[6][19][21] The original plans indicate that the south elevation was supposed to have setbacks complementing those on the northern elevation, but those setbacks were never built.[6][19] Windows were added in the 1980s after the building was designated as a landmark.[12][21] The 61st Street elevation contains horizontal bands, which are continuations of the bands on the Columbus Avenue elevation. The center of the wall contains a projecting pavilion, which formerly housed the garage's elevator shafts and is one bay deep. It is decorated with black geometric ornamentation.[19][20] Adjacent to this pavilion, there were steel-and-concrete balconies on each story, connected by an emergency-exit stair tower.[6]

The black bands of the facade wrap around to the east and north elevations. There are three window bays in the center of the east elevation. The north elevation has very few windows.[20]

### Interior

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The steel superstructure was constructed by Post & McCord.[22] Because it was originally used as a parking garage, the Sofia was built as a fireproof structure with an extremely strong frame.[23] Originally, the building had 1,000 parking spaces.[4][24][25] Drivers would leave their vehicles in front of a large elevator at the ground level, where an elevator operator would move the vehicle to a floor with an open parking space.[11][26] There were three elevators, each of which could fit two cars;[4] this was later expanded to four elevators.[16][17] Once on that floor, the operator would then push a button[26] to operate a conveyor belt with a small electric carriage.[15] The carriage was then pushed beneath the vehicle and engaged with the rear axle.[7][11][26][27] The New York Times estimated that cars could travel between ground level and the top floor in 90 seconds and that five cars could be delivered from the upper floors to the ground level every minute. Except for the elevator operator, there were no employees above the first floor, nor were any personnel allowed on the parking floors.[28]

When the Sofia was converted into a condominium, it was divided into 94 units, each covering between 580 and 2,200 sq ft (54 and 204 m2). There are 21 studio apartments, 30 one-bedroom apartments, 40 two-bedroom apartments, and 3 three-bedroom apartments. Ten of the apartments are duplexes, including two penthouse apartments that cover 2,000 and 2,200 sq ft (190 and 200 m2), respectively. Additionally, twenty apartments have outdoor terraces; the western penthouse has a terrace covering 1,000 sq ft (93 m2), while the eastern penthouse has a terrace covering 2,300 sq ft (210 m2). Kitchens and master bathrooms contain marble decoration, and the apartments also contain furnishings and wooden paneling in the Art Deco style.[12] During the condo conversion, the Sofia's marketing specialist traveled to London to research interior designs of large apartment buildings. The specialist recommended including European-style tubs and fixtures in the bathrooms; as such, many of the bathrooms are larger than the master bedrooms.[29]

## History

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During the late 19th century, the site of the Sofia was within San Juan Hill, a primarily Black neighborhood with many tenement houses, and the Ninth Avenue elevated railroad line ran nearby. The section of Ninth Avenue on the Upper West Side was renamed Columbus Avenue in an attempt to improve the neighborhood's reputation.[7][9] In the 20th century, the surrounding area evolved into Manhattan's "Automobile Row", centered along a stretch of Broadway extending mainly between Times Square at 42nd Street and Sherman Square at 72nd Street.[8][30][31] Automobile-related businesses and structures stretched as far west as West End/Eleventh Avenue.[8] These included the Sofia, which adjoined a warehouse and showroom owned by the Packard Motor Company.[8][10][27]

### Use as garage

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Office building entrance, formerly the entrance ramp to the garage

In October 1928, Packard sold a plot measuring 100 by 140 ft (30 by 43 m), at the northeast corner of 61st Street and Columbus Avenue, to Kent Automatic Garages.[32][33] The site would contain the Kent company's second high-rise "automatic parking garage"; the first garage had been built on 43rd Street, near Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan.[11][32][33] Both garages had been devised by life-insurance salesman Milton A. Kent,[34] who planned to build a chain of high-rise garages across the United States.[35] The project received a $700,000 mortgage loan in February 1929, replacing a temporary loan on the site.[36] Jardine, Murdock & Wright filed plans for the garage in July 1929,[37] and Kent Columbus Circle Garage Inc. received a $900,000 mortgage loan for the garage's construction that October.[38] The superstructure topped out during January 1930.[22] The two mortgage loans for the project were consolidated into one loan of $800,000 that April.[39][40]

The 61st Street garage opened on July 30, 1930, when New York City Police Department officials attended a demonstration of the new technology.[15] The Kent Company originally charged 50 cents for two hours of parking (equivalent to $9 in 2024) and 5 cents for every hour thereafter; the monthly fee was $30 (equivalent to $549 in 2024).[41] The rates were higher than those offered by many of the company's competitors.[26] Like the 43rd Street garage, the new 61st Street garage could accommodate 1,500 to 2,000 vehicles per day.[25] In late 1930, Jardine, Murdock & Wright filed plans for a 15-story office structure adjacent to the garage, which would be connected to the garage's steel superstructure.[42][43]

Kent Columbus Circle obtained a permanent mortgage loan in April 1931,[44][45] but the firm had trouble making mortgage payments by that August.[46] The next month, Kent announced plans to reorganize its businesses,[47][48] and Fred T. Ley moved to foreclose on the 43rd and 61st Street garages.[49] Ley took over the garages that November for about $1.6 million.[50] The Columbus Realty Corporation, led by William Everdell, acquired the garage in October 1932.[51][52] The next year, Fred W. Moe of the Ramp Buildings Corporation took over the garage's operation.[53] Columbus Realty itself defaulted on its mortgage payments, and the Central Savings Bank foreclosed on the garage. In December 1936, the bank purchased the garage at a nominal price of $10,000.[13][14] At the time, the garage was valued at $1.09 million.[14]

### Use as warehouse

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In January 1944, the Sofia Brothers Warehousing Company acquired the Kent Parking Garage with plans to convert the building into a storage warehouse.[16][17] George E. Kingsley designed the conversion,[7][54] and he filed a set of alteration plans for the building in 1949.[55] The Sofia Brothers removed the automated parking equipment in the process.[11][54] The Sofia Brothers also sealed off the vehicular entrance on Columbus Avenue and advertised the building as the "World's Tallest Storage Warehouse".[54] The building then housed the offices of the Sofia Brothers,[23] as well as the Sofia family's T & J Management Company, which managed several buildings in Manhattan and the Bronx.[56] The Arthur Ross Auction Galleries also hosted auctions for furniture and art at the warehouse.[57] The Sofia Brothers refinanced the building with a $520,000 mortgage loan in 1953.[58][59]

Tenants during the 1950s included the Underwood Corporation, which sold business machines,[60] and De Luxe Pictures, which leased some space for film storage.[61] The Public Service Mutual Insurance Company also had offices in the building until the mid-1960s,[62] and HBO predecessor Manhattan Cable Television operated a studio within the building in the early 1970s.[63] Art dealer Leo Castelli relocated his Castelli Gallery to the building in the early 1980s, branding it as "Castelli at Lincoln Center".[64] By the early 1980s, the Sofia family was considering selling the building, prompting the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to consider designating the old Kent Garage as an official landmark. The Sofia family supported the designation, as did the prospective buyers.[12] The building was designated as a city landmark on April 12, 1983,[65] making it one of a few garages in New York City to be designated as such.[34]

### Condominium conversion

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Entrance to the apartment house, formerly the garage exit

Aaron Green and Growth Realty Companies bought the building for $9.3 million in August 1983.[66] The buyers converted the Kent Garage building into the Sofia, a residential condominium with 94 units on the top 17 stories. The nine stories immediately above the lobby were converted into a 65,000 sq ft (6,000 m2) office condominium, which was sold to the College Board. The conversion was designed by the firms of Allan Lapidus; Abraham Rothenberg Associates; and Rothzeid, Kaiserman, Thomson & Bee.[12] The development was originally marketed as the "Sofia at Lincoln Center".[67] After the performing arts complex's president Nathan Leventhal pointed out that it was illegal to brand structures outside Lincoln Center as being "at Lincoln Center", the developers changed this to "Sofia Opposite Lincoln Center".[67]

The developers put a sign on the building in early May 1984 to gauge public interest in the building's condominiums. Within three weeks, over 400 people had called the development office to ask about the condominiums.[12] The first units were marketed in June 1984, and four-fifths of the apartments had been sold by October, with prices varying between $200,000 and $1.5 million.[68] This put the price of each apartment at about $350/sq ft ($3,800/m2). The conversion cost $40 million in total.[12] It was one of several projects that were completed near Columbus Circle in the mid-1980s.[69] At the time, the amount of storage space in Manhattan was declining, as several storage warehouses had been converted into condominiums.[70] The building was also listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

Following the conversion, the building's residents have included actor Richard Belzer.[71] College Board leased space in another building in 2014,[72] and Fordham University acquired College Board's portion of the building the same year for $49.6 million.[73][74] Fordham relocated the offices of 18 departments into the building in July 2015. The space contained two additional classrooms, meeting rooms, a board room, and a private garden for the university.[75]

## See also

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* Art Deco architecture of New York City
* List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 59th to 110th Streets
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan from 59th to 110th Streets

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### Sources

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* Kent Automatic Parking Garage (PDF) (Report). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. April 12, 1983.
* Robins, Anthony W. (2017). New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham's Jazz Age Architecture. Excelsior Editions. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-6396-4. OCLC 953576510.
* Sofia Warehouse (PDF) (Report). National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service. 1984.

## External links

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* Media related to The Sofia at Wikimedia Commons

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* 15 Central Park West
* 27 West 67th Street
* 50 West 66th Street
* 55 Central Park West
* 101 Central Park West
* 200 Amsterdam
* Bradford Hotel
* The Brentmore
* The Century
* Deutsche Bank Center
* The Dorilton
* Empire Hotel
* First Battery Armory
* Harperly Hall
* IRT Powerhouse
* Hotel des Artistes
* Lincoln Towers
* The Majestic
* Millennium Tower
* Park Loggia
* The Prasada
* Pythian Temple
* The Sofia
* Trump International Hotel and Tower
* Waterline Square

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72nd–86th Sts|

* 257 Central Park West
* 520 West End Avenue
* The Ansonia
* The Apthorp
* Apple Bank Building
* The Astor
* Hotel Beacon
* Hotel Belleclaire
* The Beresford
* Bretton Hall
* The Dakota
* Endicott Hotel
* The Greystone
* The Kenilworth
* The Langham
* The Level Club
* Olcott Hotel
* Public School 9
* Red House
* Rossleigh Court
* The San Remo

86th–110th Sts|

* 161 West 93rd Street
* 353 Central Park West
* 360 Central Park West
* 370 Riverside Drive
* 601 West End Avenue
* The Ariel
* Association Residence Nursing Home
* Astor Court Building
* The Belnord
* Claremont Riding Academy
* Cleburne Building
* Columbus Square
* The Cornwall
* The El Dorado
* Frederick Douglass Houses
* Hotel Marseilles
* Hotel Paris
* Isaac L. Rice Mansion
* The Manhasset
* Master Apartments
* New York Cancer Hospital
* The Normandy
* Pomander Walk
* Schinasi Mansion
* The Turin

Former|

* Apthorp Farm
* Astor Market
* Charles M. Schwab House
* Lincoln Arcade
* Somerindyck House

Culture

| Shops, restaurants|

* Asiate
* Atlantic Grill
* Barney Greengrass
* Essential by Christophe
* Jean-Georges
* Lucciola
* Murray's Sturgeon Shop
* Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto
* Zabar's

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Museums|

* American Museum of Natural History
* Children's Museum of Manhattan
* Museum of Biblical Art
* New York Historical

Theaters/performing arts|

* Arclight Theatre
* Beacon Theatre
* Stand Up NY
* Symphony Space
* Triad Theatre

| Lincoln Center|

* Alice Tully Hall
* David Geffen Hall
* David H. Koch Theater
* Rose Hall
* Metropolitan Opera House
* Vivian Beaumont Theater
* Walter Reade Theater

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Former|

* Andanada
* Café des Artistes
* Century Theatre
* Dovetail
* Eighty One
* Metro Theater
* Mikell's
* Nicholas Roerich Museum
* A Photographer's Gallery
* Telepan

Green spaces and recreation

* Central Park
* Damrosch Park
* Riverside Park
* Sherman Square
* Septuagesimo Uno
* Verdi Square
* West Side Community Garden

Education

| Primary and secondary|

* The Anderson School PS 334
* Calhoun School
* Collegiate School
* Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School
* Dwight School
* Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School
* Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
* Gateway School
* Innovation Diploma Plus High School
* Manhattan Day School
* PS 9 Sarah Anderson School
* PS 166
* The School at Columbia University
* Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan
* Stephen Gaynor School
* Studio Maestro
* Trinity School

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Post-secondary|

* Bard Graduate Center
* Fordham University School of Law
* William E. Macaulay Honors College
* Yeshivat Hadar

Music schools|

* Bloomingdale School of Music
* Kaufman Music Center
* Mannes School of Music

Religion

| Churches, chapels|

* Advent Lutheran Church
* All Angels' Church
* Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church
* Broadway United Church of Christ
* Christ & Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church
* Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew
* Church of the Ascension, Roman Catholic
* Church of the Blessed Sacrament
* First Baptist Church in the City of New York
* First Church of Christ, Scientist
* Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York
* Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic Church
* Holy Trinity Church
* Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
* Riverside Memorial Chapel
* Rutgers Presbyterian Church
* St. Agnes Chapel
* Second Church of Christ, Scientist
* St. Gregory the Great Church
* St. Ignatius of Antioch Church
* St. Michael's Episcopal Church
* Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Manhattan
* West End Collegiate Church
* West-Park Presbyterian Church

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Synagogues|

* Ansche Chesed
* B'nai Jeshurun
* Congregation Habonim
* Congregation Ohab Zedek
* Congregation Rodeph Sholom
* Congregation Shaare Zedek
* Congregation Shearith Israel
* Jewish Center
* Lincoln Square Synagogue
* Ramath Orah
* Stephen Wise Free Synagogue

Transportation

| Subway stations|

* 59th Street–Columbus Circle
* 66th Street–Lincoln Center
* 72nd Street/Central Park West
* 72nd Street/Broadway
* 79th Street
* 81st Street–Museum of Natural History
* 86th Street/Central Park West
* 86th Street/Broadway
* 96th Street/Central Park West
* 96th Street/Broadway
* 103rd Street/Central Park West
* 103rd Street/Broadway
* Cathedral Parkway–110th Street/Central Park West
* Cathedral Parkway–110th Street/Broadway

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Streets|

* 66th Street
* 72nd Street
* 74th Street
* 79th Street
* 85th Street
* 89th Street
* 95th Street
* 96th Street
* Amsterdam Avenue
* Broadway
* Central Park West
* Columbus Avenue
* Columbus Circle
* Frederick Douglass Circle
* Riverside Drive
* West End Avenue

Other|

* New York Central Railroad 69th Street Transfer Bridge
* 79th Street Boat Basin

Related topics

* Central Park West Historic District
* Manhattantown
* San Juan Hill

See also: Manhattan Community Board 7

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Topics|

* Contributing property
* Keeper of the Register
* Historic district
* History of the National Register of Historic Places
* National Park Service
* Property types

Lists
by county|

* Albany
* Allegany
* Bronx
* Broome
* Cattaraugus
* Cayuga
* Chautauqua
* Chemung
* Chenango
* Clinton
* Columbia
* Cortland
* Delaware
* Dutchess
* Erie
* Essex
* Franklin
* Fulton
* Genesee
* Greene
* Hamilton
* Herkimer
* Jefferson
* Kings (Brooklyn)
* Lewis
* Livingston
* Madison
* Monroe
* Montgomery
* Nassau
* New York (Manhattan)
* Niagara
* Oneida
* Onondaga
* Ontario
* Orange
* Orleans
* Oswego
* Otsego
* Putnam
* Queens
* Rensselaer
* Richmond (Staten Island)
* Rockland
* Saratoga
* Schenectady
* Schoharie
* Schuyler
* Seneca
* St. Lawrence
* Steuben
* Suffolk
* Sullivan
* Tioga
* Tompkins
* Ulster
* Warren
* Washington
* Wayne
* Westchester
* Northern
* Southern
* Wyoming
* Yates

Lists
by city|

* Albany
* Buffalo
* New Rochelle
* New York City
* Bronx
* Brooklyn
* Queens
* Staten Island
* Manhattan
* Below 14th St.
* 14th–59th St.
* 59th–110th St.
* Above 110th St.
* Minor islands
* Niagara Falls
* Peekskill
* Poughkeepsie
* Rhinebeck
* Rochester
* Syracuse
* Yonkers

Other lists|

* Bridges and tunnels
* National Historic Landmarks
* New York City
* Outside New York City

* Category
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* National Register of Historic Places Portal

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