On September 15, 1998, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Police Athletic League Building (PAL) at No. 34½ East 12th Street between University Place and Broadway an individual landmark. Before its designation, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, now Village Preservation, supported landmarking the building through statements and letters to the Commission. Today, we […]
As part of NYCLandmarks50, the celebration of this year’s 50th Anniversary of the NYC Landmarks Law, we are taking a look at some of the many and varied individual landmarks in our neighborhood. The Police Athletic League Building at 34 1/2 East 12th Street between University Place and Broadway was built in 1855 for the […]
Amid the cast-iron facades of commercial and converted residential buildings between Broadway and University Place in the Village resides a large brick and brownstone institutional building. With its Police Athletic League (PAL) banners and Police Department signage over the door, it looks like it could have been an old station house re-purposed for PAL uses. […]
