SUN BUILDING - 280 BROADWAY

 The Sun Building at 280 Broadway, is located on the east side of Broadway between Chambers and Reade Streets.  The former A.T. Stewart Store was one of the most influential buildings ever erected in New York City, as its style, materials, use, and location helped determine the course of architecture and commerce in the City. In 1846, Alexander Turney Stewart opened New York's first department store.   As the first Italianate commercial building in New York, it established what would become the style of choice for hundreds of stores and warehouses erected through the succeeding decades.  In 1917, the New York Sun Newspaper bought the building, giving it the name by which it is referred to today. The facade rehabilitate required hand selection of each marble component from marble quarry in Georgia. Marble columns, cornices, pilasters and capitals were custom made to match existing.  Cast iron columns and decorative components were replicated and relpaced.  The project was awarded a Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award in 2020 by the New York Landmarks Conservancy.

This facility consists of a four-story building built in 1908 and a three-story 1963 addition, together housing three schools. Lo Sardo General Contractors performed exterior restoration including replacement of the roof systems and entire parapet on the original building, with replacement in kind of all terra cotta tracery and copings; removal of the parapet at the southeast and southwest corners of the 1963 addition; and replacement of brick masonry, granite replacement and injection waterproofing at various locations. The Guastavino-tiled vault ceiling over the former main entrance is part of the restoration program. The project was awarded a Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award in 2019 by the New York Landmarks Conservancy.