The 28th Street station was a local station on the demolished IRT Third Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. It had three tracks and two side platforms. The express track was built as part of the Dual Contracts and bypassed the station. This station closed on May 12, 1955, with the ending of all service on the Third Avenue El south of 149th Street.
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The Church of Our Lady of the Scapular–St. Stephen is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 149 East 28th Street between Third and Lexington Avenues in the Rose Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was established in the 1980s when the parish of the Church of Our Lady of the Scapular of Mount Carmel was merged into the parish of the Church of St. Stephen the Martyr. In January 2007, it was announced by the Archdiocese of New York that the Church of the Sacred Hearts of Mary and Jesus, located at 307 East 33rd Street, was to be merged into Our Lady of the Scapular–St. Stephen, then, in November 2014, the Archdiocese announced that the Church of Our Lady of the Scapular–St. Stephen was one of 31 neighborhood parishes which would be merged into other parishes. Our Lady of the Scapular–St. Stephen was to be merged into the Church of Our Saviour at 59 Park Avenue.
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217 East 28th Street is a building located between Second and Third avenues in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by the architecture firm of Napoleon LeBrun & Sons, the structure was constructed in 1893 as a fire house for Hook & Ladder Company No. 7 of the New York City Fire Department. Following the decommissioning of the fire house in the late 1960s, the building was sold by the city at an auction and converted into a photo studio and residence. After subsequently being used as offices, the property was purchased in 1993 by the Self-Realization Fellowship to serve as the New York City Center of the religious organization.
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203 East 29th Street is a historic house and carriage house located between Second and Third Avenues in Kips Bay, Manhattan, New York City, and one of the few remaining wooden houses on Manhattan Island. The year the house was built is uncertain, having been variously dated from as early as around 1790 to as late as 1870.
The house, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 8, 1982, is privately owned and not open to the public. The architect was James Cali, and the restoration architect was John Sanguilano.
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St. Illuminator's Armenian Apostolic Cathedral is a cathedral located at 221 East 27th Street between Second and Third avenues in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Originally built in 1849 as the Rose Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, the edifice has been used by the Armenian Apostolic Church since 1915. It is the oldest Armenian church in New York and the cathedral of the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Holy See of Cilicia.
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The Chester A. Arthur Home was the residence of the 21st president of the United States, Chester A. Arthur, both before and after his four years in Washington, D.C., while serving as vice president and then as president. It is located at 123 Lexington Avenue, between 28th and 29th Streets in Rose Hill, Manhattan, New York City. Arthur spent most of his adult life living in the residence. While Vice President, Arthur retreated to the house after the July 2, 1881 shooting of President James Garfield. Arthur was in residence here when Garfield died on September 19, and took the presidential oath of office in the building. A commemorative bronze plaque was placed inside the building in 1964 by the Native New Yorkers Historical Society and New York Life Insurance, and the house was designated a National Historic Landmark on January 12, 1965.
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"3rd Avenue El". nycsubway.org. Archived from the original on January 27, 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2009. "Third Avenue Local". Station Reporter. Archived from the original on June 9, 2010. Retrieved January 25, 2009.
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