110 Livingston Street

Residential building in Brooklyn, New York February 2025 August 2019 110 Livingston Street Complete WSTM Zefferus 0055.jpg 110 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Beaux Arts yes 40.691000 -73.990000 it thumb|110 Livingston Street 110 Livingston Street is a Beaux Arts-style building located in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States. History The building was designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, and was built in 1926 to serve as the headquarters for the Elks organization, including amenities such as a pool, banquet hall, and bowling alleys.Cooper Michael https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E2DB123DF93AA35754C0A9659C8B63 So Long, School Bureaucrats: 110 Livingston Is Being Sold The New York Times July 9, 2003 November 28, 2007 The building has a limestone and terra cotta facade, with Renaissance-revival style features including balustrades, egg-and-dart ornamentation, and Corinthian columns.http://www.110livingston.net/category/photos/ Archive for the 'Photos' Category 110 Livingston News & Blog 2018-12-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20070609083113/http://www.110livingston.net/category/photos/ 2007-06-09 dead In 1940, the building was converted to serve as the New York City Board of Education headquarters. Over decades of use by the Board of Education, the building became known for the entrenched bureaucracy and dysfunction of its occupants, and Michael Cooper of The New York Times stated that the building's name eventually came to symbolize the failings of the New York City school system, as "more than a location or a shorthand name for the institution it housed, the city's Board of Education. It symbolized a state of mind, a failed system that was at once imperious and impervious."Chayes Matthew October 19, 2006 http://www.nysun.com/article/41875?page_no=1 110 Livingston Gets Respect The New York Sun dead https://web.archive.org/web/20200613115824/https://www.nysun.com/real-estate/110-livingston-gets-respect/41875/ June 13, 2020https://books.google.com/books?id=p8xXAAAAYAAJ 110 Livingston Street: Politics and Bureaucracy in the New York City School System David Rogers 2006 Clinton Corners, NY Percheron Press 9780975273838 In 2003, the government of New York City sold the building to Two Trees Management, a primary developer of the DUMBO neighborhood, for development as luxury residential apartments, as part of development efforts taking place throughout Downtown Brooklyn. Several floors were added to the structure, and the courtyard was decorated with a trompe-l'œil mural of architectural features by muralist Richard Haas.http://www.richardhaas.com/z110Livingston.html 110 Livingston Street Richard Haas 2018-12-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20070702135049/http://www.richardhaas.com/z110Livingston.html 2007-07-02 dead The interior lobby space, including a coffered ceiling, has been restored by the architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle, and a historic theater space on the ground floor is intended to be used by ISSUE Project Room, a local arts organization. References External links New York City Architecture Education Richard Haas, 110 Livingston Street mural Category:McKim, Mead & White buildings Category:Commercial buildings in Brooklyn Category:Residential buildings in Brooklyn Category:Office buildings completed in 1926 Category:Downtown Brooklyn Category:Skyscrapers in Brooklyn Category:Skyscraper office buildings in New York City Category:Residential skyscrapers in New York City Category:1926 establishments in New York City Category:1920s architecture in the United States