Brian D. Goldstein
urban and architectural historian
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Harlem River Houses

Black Moderns

West block entrance at W. 152nd Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard

West block courtyard with view to sunken playground

Sculpture in the courtyard of the West block at the W. 151st Street entrance by James Richmond Barthé & Heinz Warneke

West block courtyard sunken playground

West block courtyard apartment entrance

Harlem River Houses site plan

West block preschool building and playground at W. 151st Street

West block stairs to elevated courtyard on Macombs Place

Detail of West block entrance at elevated courtyard on Macombs Place

East block pocket courtyard on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard

East block sunken entrance courtyard on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard

East block courtyard apartment entrance

Harlem River Houses, 1937
Archibald Manning Brown, Will Rice Amon, Richard W. Buckley, Frank J. Forster, Charles F. Fuller, Horace Ginsbern, John Louis Wilson, Jr., Michael Rapuano (landscape), Richmond Barthé & Heinz Warneke (sculpture)
Harlem, New York

All photographs by Christina E. Crawford, 2021
Licensed under Creative Commons, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
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Detail of West block courtyard apartment entrance

W. 151st Street entrance to the West block

West block brick foundation detail along W. 151st Street

West block elevated courtyard on Macombs Place

East block courtyard on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard

Detail of entrance at East block pocket courtyard on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard

East block courtyard with view to playground facing Harlem River Drive

East block courtyard sunken playground facing Harlem River Drive

Detail of East block courtyard apartment entrance

East block New York Public Library branch (c. 2021), Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and W. 151st Street