May 2009 photograph by C. Ford Peatross, staircase, former Restaurant Longchamps # 12, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street (Empire State Building), opened 1938. Photo courtesy of C. Ford Peatross Taking Away the Stairway A historic stairway, the last surviving restaurant interior designed by the noted New York artist Winold Reiss, has been... News 15 Nov 2022 | 01:02
Starbucks Reserve is going in where Longchamps once was. Photo: Michael Oreskes Saving the Starbucks Stairway Preservationists demanded that the Empire State Building and its new tenant, Starbucks, reveal their plans for an historic... News 26 Aug 2022 | 12:44
