All 205 Projects

Presbyterian Hospital modernization

Family list: “Presbyterian Hospital”

Kelly Masonry had a documented masonry contract on Presbyterian Hospital new construction and renovation during the hospital’s major 1980s modernization.

Mount Sinai Hospital — Guggenheim Pavilion redevelopment

Family list: “Mt. Sinai Hospital”

Another perfect 'city replacing itself' story: eleven hospital buildings came down to create a radically different, light-filled medical complex.

Mount Sinai Medical Center — Guggenheim Pavilion Phase II construction

Family list: “Mt. Sinai Medical Center”

Joseph appears to have worked on Mount Sinai twice during the same six-year megaproject.

7 Hanover Square (now 100 Pearl Street / 50 Water Street complex)

Family list: “7 Hanover Square”

Joseph helped build a 1982 red-brick office tower on a block where archaeology uncovered colonial and early Federal New York—including property once associated with Captain William Kidd.

New York City Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Vietnam Veterans Plaza

Family list: “Vietnam Memorial”

Joseph helped build a memorial whose wall carries soldiers' own letters home — then the plaza was rebuilt and rededicated in Lower Manhattan just weeks after 9/11.

Stuyvesant High School — Battery Park City campus

Family list: “Stuyvesant High School”

Joseph’s 1990 project helped build Stuyvesant’s new Battery Park City home.

The Jewish Museum — 1990–1993 expansion and renovation

Family list: “Jewish Museum”

Kelly’s 1990 entry lines up with the start of Kevin Roche’s major Gothic Revival expansion.

NYCHA Woodside Houses

Family list: “Woodside Houses”

One of the earliest entries on the list, showing Joseph working on the enormous postwar transformation of New York before the famous corporate and cultural projects appear.

Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center

Family list: “Wilkes Barre VA Hospital”

Joseph was on this job while a new 475-bed veterans hospital rose outside Wilkes-Barre.

St. Albans Naval Hospital — postwar permanent expansion

Family list: “St. Albans Naval Hospital”

A former Queens golf course became one of the Navy's great wartime hospital campuses.

Owls Head Wastewater Treatment Plant

Family list: “Owlshead Sewage Plant”

Joseph's 1950 sewage-plant job was part of the original construction of the Owls Head facility that still treats Brooklyn's wastewater today.

Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company Brewery — 95 Evergreen Avenue

Family list: “Schlitz Brewery”

A 1951 Brooklyn brewery that survives inside a modern office conversion.

Rockaway Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility

Family list: “Rockaway Sewage Plant”

One of Joseph's least glamorous jobs may also be one of the most essential.

260 Madison Avenue

Family list: “39th St and Madison Ave Office”

A 1951 Madison Avenue office job at the dawn of postwar glass-and-metal Midtown.

P.S./M.S. 200 — Queens (Q200)

Family list: “P.S. 200”

Joseph's 1952 P.S. 200 job appears to be the Queens school that opened the following year.

NYCHA Cooper Park Houses

Family list: “Cooper Park Houses”

Joseph's 1952 entry lands exactly between groundbreaking and tenant move-in at this NYCHA complex.

Central Islip State Hospital — Powerhouse / Building 101

Family list: “Islip State Hospital”

Joseph worked at Central Islip State Hospital during a major period of campus expansion.

New York Coliseum — Columbus Circle

Family list: “N. Y. Coliseum”

Joseph's list puts him on the New York Coliseum in 1955 — the same year a major section of the exhibition-hall formwork collapsed during construction.

NYCHA Marlboro Houses

Family list: “Marlboro Houses”

Joseph helped build a red-brick public-housing complex now considered architecturally significant.

Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company Building

Family list: “Mutual Benefit Life, N.J.”

A 1957 headquarters that announced Newark was still betting on its downtown.

Pan American World Airways Hangar 14 — Idlewild Airport

Family list: “P.A.A. Hangar - Idlewild”

Joseph was literally helping build Idlewild's new Jet Age 'aerial city.'

660 Madison Avenue (Getty Building)

Family list: “660 Madison Ave.”

A J. Paul Getty office tower completed the same year Joseph worked there.

New York Telephone Murray Hill central-office complex — leading candidate

Family list: “Telephone Building - 38 St.”

A corrected street number turns a dead end into a strong Murray Hill lead.

American Airlines Terminal at Idlewild

Family list: “A.A. Arrivals Building”

Joseph’s 1959 entry falls during construction of American Airlines’ new terminal at Idlewild.

Loyola Hall / Peter Faber Wing, Fordham University

Family list: “Loyola Hall - Fordham U.”

Fordham expanded Loyola Hall with a seven-story, 100-room wing in 1959.

One Chase Manhattan Plaza (now 28 Liberty Street)

Family list: “Chase Manhattan Bank”

A major postwar turning point: corporate Modernism replacing the fine-grained old Financial District — exactly the New York cycle the Fran Lebowitz story captures.

Princess Gardens — Lincoln Square Title I housing

Family list: “Princess Gardens”

Princess Gardens was one of the residential buildings created by the same urban-renewal machine that produced Lincoln Center.

Toots Shor's Restaurant — second location

Family list: “Toots Shor Restaurant”

In 1960, Joseph worked on the new home of one of New York’s most famous celebrity saloons.

New York Telephone Switching Building / AT&T Switching Center

Family list: “Telephone Building 54th and 10 Ave”

A 1961 job on one of Hell's Kitchen's giant windowless telephone fortresses.

New York Telephone Convent Avenue Central Office — 380–386 Convent Avenue

Family list: “Convent Ave Telephone”

Joseph returned a 1906 telephone exchange to the modern network: another contractor's archive independently confirms a 1966 Convent Avenue Telephone Building project.

Cardinal Spellman Recreation Center, St. Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie)

Family list: “Dunwoodie”

The one-word entry 'Dunwoodie' almost certainly means the seminary's new recreation center.

Collegiate School — Platten Hall (former campus)

Family list: “Collegiate School”

A 1967 construction job for one of the oldest schools in the United States.

4 New York Plaza / Manufacturers Hanover Operations Center (now SoMA at 25 Water Street)

Family list: “Manufacturers Hanover Bldg.”

Joseph helped build a 408,000-brick banking-computer fortress whose original 1966 DOB plans still survive in the Municipal Archives; today the same structure has been transformed into 1,320 homes.

55 Wall Street — 1967 alteration

Family list: “55 Wall Street”

Joseph worked at 55 Wall Street only two years after New York had formally declared the building a landmark.

Herbert Irving Pavilion / former Atchley Pavilion — Doctors Office Building

Family list: “Doctors Office Building - Columbia Pres”

Columbia’s own archival language identifies the Herbert Irving Pavilion as the former Doctors’ Office Building, closely matching Rita’s wording.

Perkin-Elmer Wooster Heights facility — Danbury

Family list: “Perkins Elmer - Danbury”

A handwritten 'Perkins Elmer - Danbury' line turns out to connect Joseph's masonry career to a top-secret Cold War spy-satellite factory.

Seamen's Church Institute — 15 State Street headquarters

Family list: “Seamen's Church Institute”

Joseph helped build a seafarers' residence that lasted less than two decades; its 1985 sale and demolition then became entangled with New York's new protections for SRO residents.

Manhattan Church of Christ

A 1967 Brutalist church whose textured block façade is itself the architecture.

Indian Point Unit 2

Family list: “Indian Point”

Joseph’s 1967 entry falls during the major expansion of Indian Point Unit 2.

Con Edison Ravenswood Generating Station — gas-turbine plant construction

Family list: “Con Edison Ravenswood”

Joseph worked at Ravenswood while Con Edison was expanding the Queens generating complex with new gas-turbine capacity.

Mendel Gottesman Library, Yeshiva University

Family list: “Yeshiva University Library”

Joseph helped build Yeshiva's $5 million central library in the late 1960s; half a century later, the university cut much of its brick exterior open and replaced it with glass.

Queen of Peace Residence, Little Sisters of the Poor

Family list: “Little Sisters”

Joseph's 1968 Little Sisters job was the new Queens Village home that replaced two 19th-century elder-care institutions.

Amalgamated Lithographers of America Building — brick sidewalk, 113 University Place

Family list: “Lithographers Sidewalk”

A cryptic line on Rita's list appears to point to one of the archive's smallest and most personal jobs: the red-brick sidewalk outside the lithographers' union building at 13th Street and University Place.

BOAC Terminal / later JFK Terminal 7

Family list: “BOAC”

Joseph worked on the last major terminal built in JFK's original Terminal City.

PepsiCo World Headquarters — Purchase, New York

Family list: “Pepsi Cola World Headquarters”

Joseph helped build PepsiCo's new suburban world headquarters just as major corporations were leaving Manhattan for landscaped campuses.

First National Bank Building / 100 Federal Street

Family list: “First Bank of Boston”

Boston knows this 1970 job by a much less formal name: the 'Pregnant Building.'

New England Telephone Building — 185 Franklin Street

Family list: “Telephone Building - Boston”

A period photograph survives of the New England Telephone Building at 185 Franklin Street from around Joseph’s 1970 work year.

Vanderbilt Clinic expansion, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center

Family list: “Presbyterian Hospital - Vanderbilt Clinic”

Joseph's 1971 date falls almost exactly halfway through Vanderbilt Clinic's documented expansion.

Columbus Hospital — 440-bed East 19th Street annex expansion

Family list: “Columbus Hospital”

Joseph's hospital job was rising in the middle of a bitter neighborhood fight over expansion and displacement.

1500 Broadway (Times Square Plaza)

Family list: “1500 Broadway Office Building”

Joseph was on the job as a new Times Square office tower rose above Broadway.

55 Water Street

A 1971 masonry job on what became one of the largest office buildings in the world.

Bloomingdale's Garden City — Franklin Avenue store

Family list: “Bloomingdale's - Garden City”

A 1971 Bloomingdale's job designed by one of America's best-known modern architects.

Queens Fashion Mall, Rego Park

Family list: “Queens Fashion Mall”

A 1971 Queens retail project tied to pioneering architect Norma Merrick Sklarek.

The Valley Hospital — Bergen Wing

Family list: “Valley Hospital”

Valley's archive puts Joseph at the 1972 Bergen Wing groundbreaking year — and that same Ridgewood campus has now been given a second life after the hospital moved to Paramus.

1301 Avenue of the Americas — 1972 alteration / tenant work

Family list: “1301 Avenue of Americas”

Joseph returned to a Sixth Avenue tower that had already been standing for eight years.

New York Telephone East 79th Street Central Office

Family list: “East 79th Street Telephone Building”

Another subcontractor's archive independently confirms Joseph's 1972 East 79th Street telephone job—and preserves two folders of drawings from the project.

Cooper Union Foundation Building — John Hejduk interior renovation

Family list: “Cooper Union”

Joseph worked on John Hejduk's celebrated modernization of Cooper Union's 1859 landmark.

New York Telephone Building — 375 Pearl Street

Family list: “N.Y. Telephone - Pearl Street”

Joseph helped build one of Lower Manhattan's most notorious windowless fortresses; forty years later, New York literally cut open its upper walls and turned them into glass.

Columbus Hospital / Cabrini Health Care Center — annex completion and merger phase

Family list: “Columbus Hospital - Phase 2”

Two family-list entries capture the Columbus Hospital expansion at different moments.

Nassau Hospital — 1973 parking structure

Family list: “Nassau Hospital”

One of Joseph's least glamorous jobs may have been exactly what the growing suburban hospital needed most: parking.

One United Nations Plaza / UN Plaza Hotel and office building

Family list: “U.N. Hotel - Office Building”

A 1974 construction job whose hotel interior later became a New York City landmark.

Borough of Manhattan Community College — 199 Chambers Street campus, first construction phase

Family list: “Manhattan Community College”

Joseph's first BMCC entry catches a campus that would become a physical monument to New York's fiscal crisis: construction stopped at a bare steel frame, then students later marched to the abandoned site demanding that the city finish it.

Morgan Library — 1975 five-story addition

Family list: “Morgan Library”

Joseph's 1975 Morgan addition rose while the very same block was testing the legal limits of New York's young landmarks law; three decades later his addition was itself removed for Renzo Piano's expansion.

Original 4 World Trade Center — Southeast Plaza Building

Family list: “S.E. Plaza - World Trade Center”

Joseph worked on the original 4 World Trade Center in its completion year. On 9/11, much of the nine-story building was destroyed by the collapse of the South Tower; damaged remnants survived briefly before being removed during the Ground Zero cleanup. A new 4 WTC later rose on the rebuilt campus.

Calvary Hospital — new Eastchester Road hospital

Family list: “Calvary Hospital”

Joseph's 1976 hospital job turns out to be the construction of Calvary's new purpose-built Bronx home, opened two years later.

St. Vincent's Hospital — Triangle Site Materials Handling Facility / tunnel

Family list: “St. Vincent's Hospital”

Joseph's 1977 St. Vincent's job may have been almost entirely invisible from the street: an underground hospital warehouse connected to the main campus by a tunnel beneath Seventh Avenue.

Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute

Family list: “Hospital for Joint Disease”

Joseph's 1977 hospital job can now be dated almost to the day: the new Orthopaedic Institute broke ground after the last of 55 government approvals on February 3, 1977.

Port Authority Bus Terminal — 1975–79/81 North Wing expansion

Family list: “Port Authority Bus Terminal”

Joseph helped build the Port Authority expansion New York is now preparing to tear down.

New York Telephone Building — 1095 Avenue of the Americas / West 42nd Street

Family list: “New York Telephone Co. - W. 42 Street”

A once-reviled telephone tower whose plaza became famous for teaching New York how to use movable chairs.

375 Pearl Street — Bell System / New York Telephone rooftop logo installation

Family list: “Bell Logo Symbol - Pearl Street”

Rita's list may preserve a job as specific as mounting the giant Bell symbol on a Lower Manhattan tower.

Christ Hospital — Tower Building / medical office expansion

Family list: “Christ Hospital - Jersey City”

A Jersey City hospital expansion whose state records date the main tower to exactly 1978.

Waldenbooks corporate headquarters

Family list: “Walden Books”

Waldenbooks was opening stores so quickly that it needed an entirely new headquarters.

American Bureau of Shipping headquarters renovation — 65 Broadway

Family list: “American Bureau Shipping”

Joseph helped turn American Express's old headquarters into the global headquarters of the American Bureau of Shipping.

TWA Flight Wing 1 — terminal improvement work

Family list: “TWA Flight Wing #1”

Joseph's second TWA entry catches the famous terminal after the Jet Age dream had already become a traffic problem: Flight Wing 1 was only eight years old when TWA was modifying the complex again.

1166 Avenue of the Americas — 1978 alteration

Family list: “1166 Avenue of Americas Alteration”

Joseph's 1978 'Alteration' came at the exact moment a nearly empty Midtown tower was being rescued through a landmark New York Telephone/TIAA condominium deal.

Manhattan Squash Club — W.R. Grace Building

Family list: “Manhattan Squash Club”

A wonderfully specific late-1970s New York job: the Bryant Park squash club opened with Diana Nyad playing George Plimpton, then became a major pro venue—all inside the W.R. Grace Building.

IBM Building — 590 Madison Avenue

Family list: “IBM Office Building”

A great material story: the building's gray-green granite was fabricated on Long Island and delivered in a tightly choreographed Midtown construction operation.

The Galleria at White Plains

Family list: “Galleria - White Plains”

Joseph helped build the mall that embodied White Plains urban renewal; now White Plains has formally approved replacing that same megablock with a new walkable residential district.

Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn — New Pavilion (later Carrington Pavilion)

Family list: “Methodist Hospital”

The institution is known, but the 1979 phase still needs a building name.

Hospital for Special Surgery — 1979 vertical expansion

Family list: “Hospital for Special Surgery”

The archival article includes an actual 1979 construction photograph — exactly the kind of 'Joseph was here while this was going up' evidence the site needs.

Barclays Bank of New York — 300 Park Avenue alteration

Family list: “Barclay Bank Alteration”

A repeat Barclays client, explicitly labeled an alteration.

Teachers College — Milbank Memorial Library renovation

Family list: “Teachers College”

A likely 1980 phase of Teachers College's five-year library renovation.

Borough of Manhattan Community College — 199 Chambers Street campus, resumed construction

Family list: “Manhattan Community College”

Joseph's second BMCC entry captures the restart: after a five-year fiscal-crisis hiatus and a student campaign to finish the abandoned steel frame, construction resumed and the downtown campus finally opened.

St. Regis Paper Company — 237 Park Avenue headquarters fit-out

Family list: “St. Regis Paper Company”

The company was shifting its Grand Central-area headquarters footprint right around Joseph's 1980 job.

85 Broad Street — Goldman Sachs global headquarters

Family list: “85 Broad Street”

Joseph’s 1981 entry places him on Goldman Sachs’s new 85 Broad Street headquarters above the archaeological remains of New Amsterdam.

The Brooklyn Hospital — 1981 modernization project

Family list: “Brooklyn Hospital”

Another contractor's archive independently confirms Joseph's 1981 Brooklyn Hospital job—and preserves two folders that may tell us what was actually being built.

Maimonides Medical Center — Community Mental Health Center / Goldberg Pavilion enlargement

Family list: “Maimonides Medical Center”

The city record finally gives Joseph's generic 1981 Maimonides entry a likely construction phase: enlargement of the Community Mental Health Center and Goldberg Pavilion.

Adirondack Trailways Ticket Plaza — Port Authority Bus Terminal

Family list: “Adirondack Trailways Ticket Plaza”

The mysterious 'Railways' line is solved: it is Adirondack Trailways, turning the entry into a plausible bus-terminal job.

Dag Hammarskjold Tower

Joseph's 1981 condo job became a case study in how not to design a privately owned public plaza.

Irving Trust Operations Center — 101 Barclay Street

Family list: “Irving Trust Company - Wall Street”

Rita's 'Irving Trust Company - Wall Street — 1982' most likely refers to Irving Trust's new Operations Center at 101 Barclay Street rather than the older 1 Wall Street headquarters. The 1981 Architectural Record feature gives the actual project team—Rockefeller Center Development Corporation, SOM, Jaros Baum & Bolles and Turner Construction—and documents the all-glass exterior. That makes this a focused Turner/SOM subcontract search for concealed CMU/core/service masonry, not a 1 Wall Street alteration story.

Novotel New York Times Square — 226 West 52nd Street

Family list: “Novotel Building”

The mystery 'Norwest' building becomes a plausible Times Square hotel construction story once the source is read correctly as Novotel.

Federal Reserve Plaza — 33 Maiden Lane

Family list: “33 Maiden Lane”

Joseph's 1983 date lands exactly on a City Planning modification for the new 33 Maiden Lane project, one year before its public spaces were completed.

The College of Insurance, 101 Murray Street

Family list: “College of Insurance”

Joseph helped build the insurance industry's purpose-built college — and thirty years later the entire school building was demolished for a luxury condo tower.

Equitable Center West / AXA Equitable Center — 787 Seventh Avenue

Family list: “Equitable Tower West”

Joseph's 1983 date matches the year Equitable formally approved its new Seventh Avenue tower.

53rd at Third / Lipstick Building

Family list: “53rd Street at Third Avenue”

Joseph worked on the Lipstick Building while it was rising; two decades later Bernard Madoff's firm operated from the same tower, which is now being reused in large part by Memorial Sloan Kettering.

Statue of Liberty National Monument — Centennial Restoration

Family list: “Statue of Liberty National Monument”

Joseph's 1985 work coincided with the Statue of Liberty's centennial restoration.

The Bromley

Family list: “Residential Development - 225 W. 83 Street”

An exact-address match: the 304-unit Bromley rose on West 83rd Street in 1985.

Community Hospital at Dobbs Ferry — new hospital construction (family notation 'Phase D')

Family list: “Community Hospital - Phase D”

Joseph's 1986 'Community Hospital' job is almost certainly the new hospital being built in Dobbs Ferry.

375 Hudson Street — Saatchi & Saatchi headquarters project

Family list: “375 Hudson Street”

A 1986 list entry that may capture enabling work just before 375 Hudson formally rose.

231 West 21st Street — 1986 alteration, not new apartment construction

Family list: “Apartment Building - 231 W. 21 Street”

The building is nearly a century older than Joseph's job date.

New York Yacht Club, 44th Street Clubhouse

Family list: “New York Yacht Club - W. 44 Street”

By 1987, Kelly was working on one of New York’s great Beaux-Arts clubhouses.

One Court Square / Citicorp Building

Family list: “Citicorp at City Square”

Rita's list says 'City Square.' The building was almost certainly Citicorp's One Court Square.

Resurrection Mausoleum, St. John Cemetery

Family list: “Resurrection Mausoleum - St. John's Cemetery”

One of Joseph's most masonry-forward projects: a 3,000-crypt mausoleum in Queens.

712 Fifth Avenue

Family list: “Office Building - 712 Fifth Avenue”

Joseph worked on a Fifth Avenue skyscraper whose shape was changed by a public preservation fight: dozens testified over whether the older buildings underneath it should survive.

Swiss Bank Tower / 623 Fifth Avenue

Family list: “Swiss Bank - 49-50 Streets”

A late-career masonry job where New York preservation rules shaped the façade itself.

Three Lincoln Center / Samuel B. & David Rose Building complex — Lincoln Center Towers construction

Family list: “Lincoln Center Towers”

The family list says 1989 — and the New-York Historical Society has construction photos from that exact year.

Herbert N. Straus House — 9 East 71st Street, major 1989–90 residential conversion

Family list: “9 East 71st Street Residence”

One of Joseph's final jobs sits on a remarkable Upper East Side palimpsest: an 1892 Carrère & Hastings townhouse was demolished for an enormous Horace Trumbauer mansion that was never fully completed, later became a school, and was being converted back to a residence when Joseph worked there in 1990.

NYU Medical Center — Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and Residential Tower

Family list: “New York University Medical Center”

One of Joseph's last listed jobs aligns exactly with the start of NYU's 23-story Skirball Institute and residential tower—a project intended to reshape the scientific future of the medical center.

Capital Cities/ABC — 147 Columbus Avenue

Family list: “American Broadcasting Company”

Joseph's final ABC entry appears to catch the network in motion: a December 1990 architecture article announced the ten-story 147 Columbus Avenue building just as construction was about to begin.

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center — Major Modernization Project

Family list: “Wyckoff Heights Medical Center”

Possibly the best archival-photo lead in the entire database: NYU holds a dedicated 1991 set of exterior and interior photographs taken specifically because demolition was imminent.

Isabella House

Joseph's undated Isabella House entry aligns with the mid-1960s expansion of Isabella's Washington Heights campus.

Idlewild Airport

Rita recorded “Idlewild Airport” for 1950.

Pan Am Simulator

Rita recorded “Pan Am Simulator” for 1969.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy (SAR Academy)

Family list: “Riverdale Academy”

A school built into Arturo Toscanini's former estate — and challenged in court while it was going up.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Neversink Hydroelectric Plant / Power House, Grahamsville

Family list: “Power House”

A completely generic 'Power House — 1954' may finally have a place: Grahamsville, where major hydroelectric and New York City water-supply infrastructure was coming online that same year.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

P.S. 345 / The Liberty School

Family list: “Liberty Atkins School”

P.S. 345, known as the Liberty School, was designed by Percival Goodman and Wang Chiu-Hwa in 1966–67.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Kittay House / Kittay Senior Apartments

Family list: “Kittay House”

Joseph’s 1969 entry aligns with construction of Kittay House, a Mitchell-Lama senior-housing development in the Bronx.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Horn & Hardart — 1165 Sixth Avenue / 105 West 45th Street, 1969 alteration

Family list: “Horn & Hardart - 45 St.”

A 1969 return to one of Horn & Hardart's famous Midtown Automat buildings is now a plausible reading.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Greenwall Pavilion — Jewish Home and Hospital for Aged

Family list: “Greenwalt Pavilion”

Joseph’s 'Greenwalt Pavilion' was the Jewish Home’s $12 million Greenwall Pavilion, built to house 320 more older New Yorkers—and the building is still in healthcare use today.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Ozanam Hall of Queens Nursing Home

Family list: “Carmelite Nursing Home”

The 'Carmelite Nursing Home' on the list is almost certainly Ozanam Hall, which opened in 1971 and is still there.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Chemical Bank — Northern Boulevard & 196th Street, Flushing

Family list: “Chemical Bank - Flushing”

A Federal Reserve branch approval may have solved the location: Chemical Bank was authorized in 1971 to open at Northern Boulevard and 196th Street in Flushing.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Jeannette Kittredge Watson Science and Education Building

Family list: “New York Botanical Garden”

The paper trail is now unusually dense: Joseph wrote 'New York Botanical Garden — 1971,' Mellon funded a new Science and Education Center that June, and NYBG's own archive has multiple Watson Building construction files from 1970–72.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Morningside House Nursing Home — 1000 Pelham Parkway South

Family list: “Morningside House”

Joseph's 1972 Morningside House job coincides with the creation of the corporation that built a new Bronx nursing-home complex.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Yonkers Sewage Treatment Plant — 1973 sludge-thickening / process work

Family list: “Yonkers Sewage Plant”

Joseph's 1973 sewage-plant job lines up with a documented sludge-treatment modernization.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Ferris Booth Hall — 1970s renovation / café-lounge work

Family list: “Columbia University - Ferris Booth Hall”

Joseph's 1975 Columbia job was probably a renovation inside a student center alumni still remember fondly.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Beneficial Management Headquarters, Peapack-Gladstone

Family list: “Beneficial Management Company”

A 560,000-square-foot brick headquarters designed to feel like a village rather than a corporate complex.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Stouffer's Inn of Westchester — post-fire reconstruction/repair

Family list: “Stauffers - Harison, NY”

Joseph appears to have helped rebuild Stouffer's immediately after one of Westchester's deadliest fires.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Citicorp Executive Learning Center / Arrowwood Conference Center

Family list: “Citicorp Executive Learning Center”

Joseph helped build Citicorp's 1981 corporate-learning retreat — a campus that became Doral Arrowwood, closed, was demolished, and may now become 834 senior-living homes.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Pace University Library — later Edward & Doris Mortola Library

Family list: “Pace University Library”

Joseph worked on a library whose structure was redesigned from steel to post-tensioned concrete to cut the construction bid dramatically.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Hermine Neustadtl Stich Radiation Therapy Center

Family list: “N.Y. Hospital - Stitch Therapy Center”

A word that looked mysterious turns out to be a name: Joseph's 'Stitch Therapy Center' almost certainly points to New York Hospital's Hermine Neustadtl Stich Radiation Therapy Center.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Warner Communications Child Life Center — New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center

Family list: “N.Y. Hospital Child Care Center”

A surprisingly specific New York Hospital job — a child-care center — but its address is still missing.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Metromedia Television national headquarters / WCVB-TV $4 million studio expansion

Family list: “Metromedia Inc.”

A strong 1983 candidate: Metromedia was building a new television headquarters outside Boston that year.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Travelers Financial Center

Family list: “Travelers Financial Center, Hempstead”

A Peter Eisenman office building whose geometry came from the skewed relationship of Long Island parkways.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

ABC Phase II / Barbara Walters Building — 47 West 66th Street

Family list: “ABC - 47 West 66 Street”

Joseph helped build a piece of American television history that became the Barbara Walters Building — and then watched, in the archive's longer New York cycle, as it disappeared for another generation of development.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Hospital for Special Surgery — 1985 preconstruction / enabling for 1986 outpatient + Belaire expansion campaign

Family list: “Hospital for Special Surgery”

Joseph's 1985 HSS entry sits immediately before another major wave of expansion, including new outpatient space and the Belaire Building.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Kensington Plaza Condominiums — 123 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck

Family list: “Kensington Condominiums - Great Neck”

A likely Great Neck condo match whose name survives, but the original project paperwork is still needed.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Richmond Hill Savings Bank — Tulip Avenue branch, Floral Park

Family list: “Richmond Hill Savings Bank - Floral Park”

Joseph's 1985 bank job was almost certainly a modernization of a celebrated 1950s branch.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

70 East 55th Street / Heron Tower

Family list: “Office Building - East 55 Street”

Rita's 1985 'Office Building - East 55 Street' has a very strong leading match in KPF's Heron Tower at 70 East 55th Street.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Anne & Isidore Falk Recreation Center / Max & Sadie Friedman Athletic Center

Family list: “Athletic Center - Einstein College of Medicine”

Joseph helped build the Einstein athletic center where Oliver Sacks later became a regular swimmer.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

The Ventana — 150 East 85th Street residential/commercial development

Family list: “Residential Development - 150 E. 85 Street”

Joseph worked on the 1985 construction of 150 East 85th Street, the beige-brick residential tower now known as The Ventana.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Caledonian Hospital — new wing

Family list: “Caledonia Hospital - Brooklyn”

Joseph helped build a wing that doubled a Brooklyn hospital; less than twenty years later the hospital closed, and its Prospect Park campus was reborn as apartments.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Victory Memorial Hospital — Brooklyn

Family list: “Victory Memorial Hospital - Brooklyn”

The hospital later disappeared as an institution, but Joseph's 1987 construction phase is still waiting to be named.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

IBM East Fishkill campus

Family list: “East Fishkill”

A likely IBM job at the East Fishkill campus where System/360-era chips were being made.

From Rita’s list

No building photograph is currently assigned.

Brooks Brothers — Vernon Hills Shopping Center, Eastchester/Scarsdale

Family list: “Brooks Brothers - Eastchester”

A Brooks Brothers store Joseph worked on disappeared — and the exact retail box is now Nike.

From Rita’s list

Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Parkside and Rodgers School

Rita recorded “Parkside and Rodgers School” for 1948.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Bayside Houses

Rita recorded “Bayside Houses” for 1948.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Park Circle Funeral Parlor

Rita recorded “Park Circle Funeral Parlor” for 1948.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Kew Gardens Houses - 110 Rd

Rita recorded “Kew Gardens Houses - 110 Rd” for 1948.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Blessed Sacrament Church

Rita recorded “Blessed Sacrament Church” for 1949.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

U.S. Army - 10-17-50 to 5-15-51

Rita recorded “U.S. Army - 10-17-50 to 5-15-51” for 10-17-50 to 5-15-51.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Glenwood Landing

Joseph’s 1952 entry aligns with work at the Glenwood Landing power station during a period of major equipment expansion.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Schlitz Brewery

Rita recorded “Schlitz Brewery” for 1953.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Creedmoor State Hospital

Rita recorded “Creedmoor State Hospital” for 1954.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

St. Vincent's Hospital

Rita recorded “St. Vincent's Hospital” for 1955.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Harlem Health Center

Rita recorded “Harlem Health Center” for 1957.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

East N.Y. Savings Bank

Rita recorded “East N.Y. Savings Bank” for 1958.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Columbia University

Rita recorded “Columbia University” for 1960.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Castle Hill

Rita recorded “Castle Hill” for 1964.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Yonkers

Rita recorded “Yonkers” for 1965.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Columbia

Rita recorded “Columbia” for 1965.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Coliseum

Rita recorded “Coliseum” for 1966.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

St. Kevin's School

Rita recorded “St. Kevin's School” for 1967.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Horn & Hardart

Rita recorded “Horn & Hardart” for 1967.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Manufacturers Trust

Rita recorded “Manufacturers Trust” for 1967.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Horn & Hardart - 33 St.

Joseph worked on a Horn & Hardart project in 1969, part of a recurring relationship with the iconic New York restaurant company.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Horn & Hardart - West Babylon

Rita recorded “Horn & Hardart - West Babylon” for 1969.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Horn & Hardart - 25 St.

Rita recorded “Horn & Hardart - 25 St.” for 1969.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Prudential - Boston

Rita recorded “Prudential - Boston” for 1970.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Burke Foundation

Rita recorded “Burke Foundation” for 1971.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Manhattan Day Center

Rita recorded “Manhattan Day Center” for 1971.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

New York Telephone - Williamsburg

Rita recorded “New York Telephone - Williamsburg” for 1971.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

N.Y.U. Medical Center

Rita recorded “N.Y.U. Medical Center” for 1971.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

N.Y. Tel. Facilities

Rita recorded “N.Y. Tel. Facilities” for 1972.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Mother Cabrini Science Addition

Rita recorded “Mother Cabrini Science Addition” for 1973.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Plumbers Union

Rita recorded “Plumbers Union” for 1973.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Isabella Nursing Home

Rita recorded “Isabella Nursing Home” for 1976.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Manhattan Savings Bank

Rita recorded “Manhattan Savings Bank” for 1976.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Doctors Hospital

Rita recorded “Doctors Hospital” for 1976.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Orhbach's Warehouse

Rita recorded “Orhbach's Warehouse” for 1976.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

St. Mary's Hospital

Rita recorded “St. Mary's Hospital” for 1977.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Barclays Bank of New York

Rita recorded “Barclays Bank of New York” for 1977.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

New York News

Rita recorded “New York News” for 1977.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Mercy Hospital

Rita recorded “Mercy Hospital” for 1977.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Republic National Bank

Rita recorded “Republic National Bank” for 1978.

From Rita’s list

Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

St. Barnabas Hospital

Rita recorded “St. Barnabas Hospital” for 1978.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Brooks Fashion Stores

Rita recorded “Brooks Fashion Stores” for 1978.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Reconstruction - Store Fire - Flushing

Rita recorded “Reconstruction - Store Fire - Flushing” for 1978.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

United Hospital

Rita recorded “United Hospital” for 1978.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Grumman Corporation Alteration

Rita recorded “Grumman Corporation Alteration” for 1978.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

General Theological Seminary

Rita recorded “General Theological Seminary” for 1979.

From Rita’s list

Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Republic National Bank

Rita recorded “Republic National Bank” for 1979.

From Rita’s list

Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Sludge Thickner Building

Rita recorded “Sludge Thickner Building” for 1979.

From Rita’s list

Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Icelandic Airlines

Rita recorded “Icelandic Airlines” for 1980.

From Rita’s list

Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Calvary Hospital

Rita recorded “Calvary Hospital” for 1981.

From Rita’s list

Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

N.Y.U. Medical Center

Rita recorded “N.Y.U. Medical Center” for 1982.

From Rita’s list

Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Daily News Warehouse - Brooklyn

Rita recorded “Daily News Warehouse - Brooklyn” for 1983.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

House of the Holy Comforter

Rita recorded “House of the Holy Comforter” for 1984.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

St. John's Riverside Hospital

Rita recorded “St. John's Riverside Hospital” for 1984.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Montefiore Hospital

Rita recorded “Montefiore Hospital” for 1985.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Our Lady of Victory School

Rita recorded “Our Lady of Victory School” for 1986.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Holiday Inn - 560 10 Ave

Rita recorded “Holiday Inn - 560 10 Ave” for Undated.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

St. Luke's Hospital

Rita recorded “St. Luke's Hospital” for Undated.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Riverdale

Rita recorded “Riverdale” for Undated.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Rochester

Rita recorded “Rochester” for Undated.

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Identification still open — no building photograph assigned.

Transit Authority

Rita recorded “Transit Authority” for Undated.