List of demolished buildings and structures in New York City

This is a list of demolished buildings and structures in New York City. Over time, countless buildings have been built in what is now New York City. Some of them still stand today and can be viewed – however, many buildings have since been demolished. The reason for the demolition was often a lack of space; a larger building could fit. Many times the condition of the building was no longer adequate. The cost of building renovation is high, and demolition may have been easier.

Sometimes its style was outdated. However, opinions may change. Artistic standards of the time of construction, of demolition, of today, and of tomorrow may all disagree. Thus, many consider it detrimental to demolish buildings that were built to high artistic standards of their own time.

Accurate records of demolished buildings were not always preserved, so this list is presumably fragmentary.

Banks, financial buildings


Name	Date built	Date of demolition	Comment
Brooklyn Savings Bank	1894	1964
old New York Cotton Exchange	1885	1922
Merchants & Manufacturers Exchange Building	1911	no data available
Deutsche Bank Building	1973	2011	Severely damaged in September 11 attacks, eventually demolished as a result.
Gallatin Bank Building	1887	1929
Hanover Bank Building	1903	1931
New York Produce Exchange	1884	1958
Old New York Produce Exchange	1861	c. 1880

Churches

Christian churches

Synagogues


Name	Date built	Date of demolition	Comment
Temple Emanu-El (I)	before 1847	1854 (?)	It used to function as a Baptist church.
Temple Emanu-El (II)	before 1854	1866 (?)	It used to function as a Baptist church.
Temple Emanu-El (III)	1868	1927	Not confuse with the new Temple Emanu-El (built in 1930).
Temple Beth-El	1891	1947
Synagogue in E63d Street	1873	before 1911

Forts


Image	Name	Date built	Date of demolition	Comment
	Fort Gansevoort	1812	1854
	Fort Lafayette	1822	1960

Hospitals


Name	Date built	Date of demolition	Comment
St. John's Guild Seaside Hospital	1879	1951	for mothers and children
Parkchester General Hospital	1941	1978
U.S. Army General Hospital No. 1	1917	1919
Doctors Hospital	1929	2005
Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic	early 1900s	1990s
Rockefeller War Demonstration Hospital	1917	1919
Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers	1849	2010

Hotels

Industrial buildings


Image	Name	Date built	Date of demolition	Comment
	5 Pointz	1892	2014

Mansions


Name	Date built	Date of demolition
C. Ledyard Blair House	1914	1927
Canterbury Hall	19th century	1861
Cornelius Vanderbilt II House	1883	1926
Elbridge Gerry Mansion	1897	1929
George Blumenthal House	1916	c. 1946
George J. Gould House	1906	c. 1963
Government House	1790	1815
Henry Phipps House	no data available	after 1930
Isaac Stern House	before 1910	1949
Jacob Ruppert Sr. House	no data available	1925
James Speyer House	no data available	1947
Jay Gould House	19th century	1906
Jerome Mansion	1865	1967
Jordan L. Mott House	1880	1936
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont House	1909	1951
Mrs. William B. Astor House	1896	1926
Ogden Mills House	1887	late 1930s
Samuel Osgood House	1770	1856
Charles M. Schwab House	1906	1948
Sherwood Studio Building	1880	1960
Vanderbilt Triple Palace	1882	1947
William A. Clark House	1911	1927
William C. Whitney House	1880s	no data available
William K. Vanderbilt House	1882	1927
William Salomon House	1906	1924
William Ziegler House	1921	after 2008
Richmond Hill

Museums, exhibition space, libraries


Name	Date built	Date of demolition
New York Crystal Palace	1853	1858
Barnum's American Museum	1841	1868
Grand Central Palace	1911	1964
Lenox Library	1877	1912

Office buildings, tenement houses, skyscrapers


Name	Date built	Date of demolition	Comment
Thomas Jefferson Association Building	1890	1960
Liggett Building	1922	2016
old (I) Trinity Court Building	1879	1926	Not to be confused with what still stands today Trinity Court Building (III).
old (II) Trinity Court Building	1927	2015	Not to be confused with what still stands today Trinity Court Building (III).
Number One Wall Street	1880s/1890s (?)	1928
Columbia Building	1890	1930
Transit Building	1902	no data available
Wolfe Building	1895	1974
German American Insurance Building	1908	no data available
Union Trust Building	1897	no data available
Commercial Cable Company Building	1897	1954
Washington Building	1885	no data available
Washington Life Building	1898	1969
old building in 99 Church Street	1871	c. 1950
99 Church Street	1950	2008
425 Park Avenue	1954	2016
Union Carbide & Carbon Building	1913	2001
Vanderbilt Avenue Building	1913	2016
Blair Building	1903	1955
City Investing Building	1908	1968
Equitable Life Building	1868	1912
Gillender Building	1897	1910
Harding Building	1910	1927
Kaskel and Kaskel Building	1902	2017
Kemble Building	1886	1949
Manhattan Life Insurance Building	1894	1964
Mills Building	1882	1925
New York Coliseum	1956	2000
New York World Building	1890	1955
New York Tribune Building	1875	1966
Parker Building	1900	1908
Prudence Building	1923	2016
Rogers Peet Building	1863	1898
Singer Building	1908	1969
St. Paul Building	1898	1958
Studebaker Building	1902	2004
Tenth Street Studio Building	1857	1956
Tower Building	1889	1913
Union Carbide Building	1960	2021
Western Union Telegraph Building	1892	1912
World Trade Center	1973	2001	Destroyed in 9/11 attacks.
5 World Trade Center	1970	2001	Severely damaged in 9/11 attacks, torn down soon after.
Fiterman Hall	1959	2009	Damaged by World Trade Center 7, torn down in 2009.

Operas


Name	Date built	Date of demolition
Academy of Music	1854	1926
Astor Opera House	1847	1890
Grand Opera House	1868	1960
Harlem Opera House	1889	1959
Metropolitan Opera House (39th Street)	1883	1967

Prisons


Name	Date built	Date of demolition
Jefferson Market Prison	1877	1927
The Tombs (I)	1838	1902
Ludlow Street Jail	1862	1927
The Tombs (II)	1902	1941

Railway stations


Name	Date built	Date of demolition
Pelham Bay Naval Training Station	1917	1919
Chambers Street Ferry Terminal	1856	1858
Cortlandt Street Ferry Depot	no data available	no data available
Hudson Terminal	1909	1972
Liberty Street Ferry Terminal	1865	1970s
26th Street terminal	1857	1869
Grand Central Depot	1871	c. 1903
Pennsylvania Station	1910	1963

Shopping malls


Name	Date built	Date of demolition
Hylan Plaza	1966	2017
Astor Market	1915	1917
Frederick Douglass Book Center	1942	1968
Gunther Building (Fifth Avenue)	1909	1943

Stadiums, sport buildings


Name	Date built	Date of demolition
Louis Armstrong Stadium (1978–2016)	1978	2016
Shea Stadium	1964	2009
Yankee Stadium (1923)	1922	2010
St. George Cricket Grounds	1886	after 1889
Madison Square Garden (I)	1879	1890
Madison Square Garden (II)	1890	1926
Madison Square Garden (III)	1925	1969
Polo Grounds	1890	1963
Lewisohn Stadium

Theatres


Name	Date built	Date of demolition
39th Street Theatre	1910	1925
44th Street Theatre	1912	1945
American Music Hall	1888	1932
Apollo Theatre	1920	1996
Adelphi Theatre	1928	1970
Anthony Street Theatre	1812	1821
Astor Theatre	1906	1982
Bijou Theatre	1878	1915
Bowery Theatre	1845	1929
Broadway Theatre	1888	1925
Capitol Theatre	1919	1968
Casino Theatre	1882	1930
Center Theatre	1932	1954
Century Theatre	1906	1932
Chatham Garden Theatre	1824	1832
Chatham Theatre	1839	1862
Comedy Theatre	1909	1942
Daly's 63rd Street Theatre	1914	1957
Daly's Theatre	1867	1920
Fifth Avenue Theatre	1868	1939
Fourteenth Street Theatre	1866	1938
Fulton Theatre	1911	1982
Garden Theatre	1890	1925
Garrick Theatre	1890	1932
Grand Opera House	1868	1960
Grand Theatre	1903	1930
Herald Square Theatre	1883	1915
Hippotheatron	1864	1872
John Street Theatre	1767	1798
Knickerbocker Theatre	1893	1930
Lafayette Theatre	1912	2013
Lyceum Theatre	1885	1902
Madison Square Theatre	1865	1908
Manhattan Theatre	1875	1909
Maxine Elliott's Theatre	1908	1960
Miner's Bowery Theatre	1878	1929
National Theater	1912	1959
New Century Theatre	1921	1962
New Theatre Comique	1839	1884
New York Hippodrome	1905	1939
New York Vauxhall Gardens	1767	1859
Niblo's Garden	1823	1895
Old Broadway Theatre	1847	1859
Park Theatre (Brooklyn)	1863	1908
Park Theatre (Manhattan)	1798	1848
Playhouse Theatre	1911	1969
Roxy Theatre	1927	1960
Theatre Comique	1862	1881
Theatre on Nassau Street	1732	1765
Vanderbilt Theatre	1918	1954
Wallack's Theatre	1850	1901
Winter Garden Theatre	1850	1867
Ziegfeld Theatre	1927	1966

Villages


Image	Name	Date built	Date of demolition	Comment
	New Brighton Village Hall	1871	2004
	Alexander Macomb House	1788	1940

Other buildings


Name	Date built	Date of demolition
42nd Street Airlines Terminal	1941	1978
Central Park Casino	1862	1936
Federal Hall	1703	1812
Pearl Street Station	before 1882	1890
The Rotunda	1818	1870
Tontine Coffee House	1793	1905
old New York City Criminal Courts Building	1893	1941
City Hall Post Office and Courthouse

Other structures


Name	Date built	Date of demolition
Dewey Arch	1899	1900
Latting Observatory	1853	1856
Lincoln Arcade	1903	1960
Macombs Dam	c. 1814	c. 1858
Putnam Bridge	1881	1958

References

"New York Architecture Images- Cotton Exchange".
"New York Architecture Images- Merchants & Manufacturers Exchange Building".
"New York Architecture Images- New York Produce Exchange".
^ "Congregation Emanu-El - New York City".
"Liggett Building, New York City | 114365". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
"New York Architecture Images- Trinity Court Building formerly known as American Bank Note Building".
"New York Architecture Images- Number One Wall Street".
"New York Architecture Images- Columbia Building".
"New York Architecture Images- Transit Building".
"New York Architecture Images- Wolfe Building".
"New York Architecture Images- German American Insurance Building".
"New York Architecture Images- Union Trust Building".
"Commercial Cable Building - the Skyscraper Center".
"New York Architecture Images- WASHINGTON BUILDING".
"Washington Life Building - the Skyscraper Center".
"99 Church Street, New York City | 149066". Emporis. Archived from the original on May 7, 2016. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
"425 Park Avenue, New York City | 115199". Emporis. Archived from the original on July 26, 2016. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
"Union Carbide & Carbon Building, New York City | 102469". Emporis. 2001-01-21. Archived from the original on May 8, 2016. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
"Vanderbilt Avenue Building, New York City | 116385". Emporis. Archived from the original on April 18, 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-02.

Literature

Nathan Silver: Lost New York, Rare Book Cellar, 1967, First Edition; Third Printing, ISBN 9780517167038
Kathrens, Michael C. (2005). Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930. New York: Acanthus Press. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-926494-34-3.

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