# 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Sometimes its style was outdated.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
### 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 | |

## 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 |