Puck Building - Definition and Overview

Gilded figure of Puck

The Puck Building is a building that occupies the block bounded by Lafayette, Houston, Mulberry and Jersey Streets in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, USA. This example of Romanesque Revival architecture, designed by Albert and Herman Wagner, was constructed in 1885 and expanded in 1893. The building features two gilded figures of Shakespeare's character Puck as part of the façade.

Once the printing facility of Puck Magazine, which ceased publication in 1918, the building now contains office space as well as ballrooms for large events on both the ground floor and the top floor. In the 1990s it was the home of Spy Magazine. In the early 2000s, the building housed the Manhattan Center of Pratt Institute. The Puck Building is now the new home of New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. An exterior shot of the Puck Building is often seen on the popular American television sitcom Will & Grace, as the building where the title character Grace Adler works.

Puck Building, Lafayette St. Entrance

The Puck Building is at the northwestern corner of Manhattan's NoLIta neighborhood, by SoHo and the NoHo section of Greenwich Village.

Sources and external links

• Press release, NYU Inks Deal for "Dream Space" in Puck Building (http://www.nyu.edu/publicaffairs/newsreleases/b_puck_2003.shtml)
• New York Daily News, June 14, 2003, Puck Building (http://www.nydailynews.com/city_life/v-pfriendly/story/92200p-83756c.html)
• http://www.nyu.edu/classes/finearts/nyc/eastvil/puck.html
• The Puck Building (http://www.puckbldg.com/) (caterer's commercial site)
• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTpuck.htm (regarding Puck Magazine)