Williams appointed agent at landmark Puck Building.Williams appointed agent at landmark Puck Building The Puck Building occupies the block bounded by Lafayette, Houston, Mulberry and Jersey Streets in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, USA. This example of Romanesque Revival architecture, designed by Albert and Herman Wagner, was constructed in 1885 and expanded in 1893. Williams Real Estate Co. Inc. has been appointed exclusive leasing agent for The Puck Building in SoHo at 295 Lafayette Street by the owner, The Kushner Companies. An official New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. landmark, the massive red-brick round-arched Romanesque Revival structure is one of the most prominent 19th century commercial buildings in lower Manhattan The following is a list of buildings in Lower Manhattan, particularly New York City's financial district, and especially Wall Street. Wall Street
Immediately recognizable by its larger-than-life statue of Puck at the corner of Mulberry and East Houston - one of the city's best-known works of architectural sculpture - and the smaller Puck statue atop the Lafayette Street entrance, The Puck Building is the original home of Puck magazine, once New York's best-known humor magazine, and later the headquarters of Spy, the satiric monthly. Once described as the largest building in the world devoted to the publishing industry in an 1892 guidebook, The Puck Building also housed the firm which produced lithographs of Puck's famous cartoons lampooning politics and fads of the day. The Puck Building also features outstanding party and catering facilities, with a 19,000-square-foot ballroom/reception space on the first floor and an 8,000-square-foot ballroom on the seventh floor. Old World-style features include architectural columns, huge arched windows, vaulted ceilings and an attended elevator, in addition to three modern elevators. Stephen Schofel, director of Williams, and Melissa Bazar of Williams is leasing agent. "There is an abundance of sunlight and wonderful views from the building, whose current tenants include the newspaper New York Press New York Press is a free alternative weekly in New York City. It is the main competitor to the Village Voice. , Gong Publications, a German publishing group, and Pratt Institute," said Schoel. Available space ranges in size up to 10,000 square feet. Designed as a seven-story building with a nine-story addition several years later by the German-born architect Albert Wagner, the building features arches of varying widths within bays of equal width, cast-iron window framing, statuary stat·u·ar·y n. pl. stat·u·ar·ies 1. Statues considered as a group. 2. The art of making statues. 3. A sculptor. adj. Of, relating to, or suitable for a statue. and entrance gates, and a cornice cornice (kôr`nĭs), molded or decorated projection that forms the crowning feature at the top of a building wall or other architectural element; specifically, the uppermost of the three principal members of the classic entablature, hence by of elaborately patterned brickwork and corbeling cor·bel·ing n. An overlapping arrangement of bricks or stones in which each course extends farther out from the vertical of the wall than the course below. topped by a brownstone brownstone, red to brown variety of sandstone. Its unusual color is caused in some instances by the presence of red iron oxide which acts as a cement, binding the sand grains together. course. PHOTO : Williams Real Estate Co. Inc. has been appointed exclusive leasing agent for The Puck Building at 295 Lafayette Street in SoHo. An official New York City landmark and one of the most prominent 19th century commercial buildings in downtown Manhattan, the massive red-brick building was the original home of Puck and Spy Magazine. |
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