Building Blocks

A section of the Lower Manhattan street was closed when the first World Trade Center came along. It has re-emerged as the area is rebuilt following Sept. 11.

A six-story structure at 433 Broadway houses Cubico, which rents shared office space. Though modern, the building seems at home with its cast-iron neighbors.

John Belle, who died at 84, conveyed a genial joy in bringing back to life the masterworks of his predecessors, including Grand Central Terminal and the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.

Apart from its snow-white marble floors and soaring features, the new Westfield World Trade Center looks like a mall that could be just about anywhere.

The stadium, the main court of the United States Open, wasn’t built to bear the extra weight of a roof, so an engineer and an architect approached it from the soil up.

In addition to repairing the outside of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, workers are reconstructing its pinnacle: a 10-foot-tall Celtic cross.

In 1959, three-foot medallions depicting the coats of arms of Western Hemisphere nations were installed along the avenue. Most are now gone.

The abandoned pier in Manhattan, which is being renovated, was an engineering marvel when it was built on the Hudson River in the 1950s.

In a renovation, the sanctuary of St. Paul’s Chapel in Lower Manhattan will shed its current pink and blue scheme for a creamier tone, revealed by a microscopic examination.

The 1916 Zoning Resolution was responsible for the reduction in population density of Manhattan, as well as curtailing sidewalk, subway and traffic congestion.