359 Broadway Landmark

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The 359 Broadway Landmark building is located on Broadway (between Leonard Street and Franklin Street) in New York City in the United States and was once occupied by the famous "Brady of Broadway". Mathew Brady moved into the building in 1853 and photographed some of the most famous Americans in US history at the location.

After a long battle with the city and its owner, the building became a landmark in 1992 after Justice Karla Moskowitz of the New York State Supreme Court decided in April that it was "clear that the building was considered from the first on architectural as well as historical grounds." The City's Landmark Commission had argued for the building's preservation, both because of its famous tenant (Brady), and the fact that each of the building's five floors had received a distinctive window treatment - thus indicating that it was an architecturally significant structure and not merely a utilitarian structure.

Photo of Abraham Lincoln taken February 27, 1860 in New York City by Mathew Brady, the day of his famous Cooper Union speech.

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• New York Times - May 10, 1992