#19th-century-architecture

#19th-century-architecture

In a circa 1870s Greenpoint tenement building turned co-op not far from McGoldrick Park, this top-floor unit has period charm, modern updates, and low maintenance. The four-story, eight-unit wood frame walkup at 100 Newel Street boasts a well-preserved exterior with Italianate/Neo Grec-style arched and incised window surrounds, a matching canopy over the front door, bay windows, and a bracketed cornice. Greenpoint is home to a surprising number of early apartment buildings, with some possibly going back as far as the 1860s.

The station was to be located at Great Scotland Yard, close to the modern-day Embankment tube station, and would have boasted an ornamental frontage about 800ft (245 metres) in length. Multiple entrances would lead to a spacious hall about 300ft long and facing them would be a range of pay offices with the names of each railway above, Parsons wrote in his plans in 1853. There would have been eight arrival platforms and eight for departure.