The Elgin Theatre, an elegant Art Deco structure on the corner of Eighth Avenue and West Nineteenth Street, in Chelsea, was a movie theatre when it opened, in 1941.

NEWYORKER: Joyce Theatre

The structure at the northeast corner of Spring and Mercer isn't, in itself, so different from any of the hundreds of other cast-iron buildings in SoHo.

WSJ: Donald Judd's SoHo Haven

The Whitney has spent the past 45 years on the corner of Madison Avenue and 75th Street in a Brutalist structure designed by Marcel Breuer.

WSJ: Whitney Museum Building on Works of Its Artists