This architectural fragment was on of three similar busts (two now lost) collected by New Yorker Bernard Leyden (1915-2009) between 1967 and 1970. Leyden was the president of the Leyden Shipping Corporation (established 1950), a maritime freighting firm located at 38 Pearl Street. Leyden reportedly salvaged the busts from a Pearl Street building being demolished across the street from his office building. Leyden's son, Brian (the donor), believes that his father probably purchased the busts from a contractor involved in a Pearl Street building demolition.

The Audubon Ballroom was a theater and ballroom located on Broadway at 165th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan. It is best known as the site of Malcolm X's assasination on February 21, 1965.

The Audubon Ballroom was a theatre and ballroom located on Broadway at 165th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, north of Harlem in New York. It is best known as the site of Malcolm X's assassination on February 21, 1965. The Ballroom was built in 1912 by film producer William Fox, who later founded the Fox Film Corporation. Fox hired Thomas W. Lamb, one of the foremost American theater architects, as its designer. During its history, the Audubon Ballroom was used as a vaudeville house, a movie theater, and a meeting hall. In 1992, Columbia University began the process of demolishing the Audubon Ballroom and replacing it with the Audubon Business and Technology Center, a university-related biotechnology research park that is a public-private partnership between Columbia University Medical Center and the New York state and city governments. Historic preservation groups unsuccessfully sued to prevent its demolition, and a group of Columbia students occupied Hamilton Hallon campus in protest. Eventually, the University reached a compromise with local community groups. Under the agreement, the University restored a portion of the original façade of the Audubon Ballroom and built a museum inside to honor Malcolm X. In 2005 the University announced the opening of the museum, the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center. Other portions of the façade and interior were given to the Landmarks Preservation Commission as part of the agreement.

The Audubon Ballroom was a theater and ballroom located on Broadway at 165th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, north of Harlem. It is best known as the site of Malcolm X's assasination, which occured on February 21, 1965.

Artist and teacher Jack Stewart (1926-2005) began studying and photographing subway graffiti in the late 1960s and became one of the first art historians to consider graffiti as a true American art form. Beginning in 1973 and continuing until the mid-1980s, he gathered many well-known graffiti writers in his East Village studio on Saturday afternoons to view slides of the subway graffiti he had documented that week. Realizing the irrepressible urge of many of these young artists to "tag" any surface in sight, he allowed them to tag the inside of the door to his lavatory with the understanding that they could not tag his paintings or other surfaces in his studio. They agreed, and began to create this remarkable artifact of New York subway graffiti. This now famous object, a standard metal clad tenement hall door, has over 190 tags by more than 80 graffiti writers.

Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp and built by Irwin Chanin, the Biltmore Theatre opened on December 7, 1925 and but for a few years remained a venue for theater until arson ravaged the interior in 1987. Restoration was finally undertaken in 1999, and the Biltmore re-opened as the third stage of the Manhattan Threatre Club in October 2003. Shortly after the re-opening, the Manhattan Theatre Club presented this plaque to Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

These push buttons are typical of the type used to ring tenants at a two-family home in the early 20th century. The lighter colored button called the upstairs family; the darker button called the downstairs tenant.

This type of push button unit was typical of New York apartment buildings during the mid-twentieth century.