One Gracie Square is a Rosario Candela-designed apartment building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Name: 1 Gracie Square Location: 1 Gracie Square Year Completed: 1929 Architect: Rosario Candela, William Lawrence Bottomley The New York Times Streetscapes: It’s One Building, but It Looks Like Six City Realty: Carter Horsley review Google Map All images […]
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One Fifth Avenue is a landmark apartment building overlooking Washington Square in Greenwich Village. The four-story base is clad in limestone, while the tower rises in brick. The architects used light and dark bricks to create vertical false shadows, accentuating the building’s height. Name: 1 Fifth Avenue Location: 1 Fifth Avenue Year Completed: 1927 Architect:
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1 East End Avenue is an Upper East Side cooperative apartment building built in 1929. The building has an unusual trapezoidal shape, with a narrow southern end. The East River-façade is punctuated with four copper-covered bay windows. Name: 1 East End Avenue Location: 1 East End Avenue Year Completed: 1929 Architect: Albert W. Lewis, Pleasants
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Ritz Tower was conceived as an “apartment hotel” to circumvent the city’s height restriction for apartment buildings. Apartment buildings’ heights were limited to 150% of the width of the adjacent street. When it opened, 465 Park Avenue was the tallest residential building in New York City, and had the same cachet as one of the
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57 West 75th Street, aka La Rochelle, was built in 1898 to plans drawn by Lamb & Rich. The Renaissance Revival landmark is part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Name: La Rochelle Location: 57 West 75th Street Year Completed: 1898 Architect: Lamb & Rich Style: Renaissance Revival NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission:
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11 Hoyt Street in Downtown Brooklyn is a residential condo skyscraper with a unique wavy white façade of precast concrete panels and drive-through motor court. Designed by Studio Gang architects. Name: 11 Hoyt Street Location: 11 Hoyt Street Year Completed: 2021 Architect: Jeanne Gang Style: Postmodern Wikipedia: 11 Hoyt City Realty: Carter Horsley review
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The Eagle, 86 Fleet Place at Myrtle Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, is a curved-corner glass apartment tower with balconies. Goldstein Hill & West designed the 2017 structure, developed by Red Apple Group. Name: The Eagle Location: 86 Fleet Place Year Completed: 2017 Architect: Goldstein Hill & West Style: Postmodern City Realty: Carter Horsley review Google
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City Point is a three-tower development in Downtown Brooklyn. City Point Tower I, aka 7 Dekalb, opened in 2015 with retail space and affordable housing. City Point Tower II, aka 1 Dekalb Avenue or 10 City Point, opened in 2016 with market-rate rental apartments. City Point Tower III, aka Brooklyn Point, opened in 2021 as
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Toren, at 150 Myrtle Avenue, has a distinctive black-and-white metal and glass facade. The downtown Brooklyn condo tower was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Name: Toren Location: 150 Myrtle Avenue Year Completed: 2009 Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) Style: Postmodern City Realty: Carter Horsley review Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant
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