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NYC / Bronx / Fish Building

Fish Building is “one of the most astonishing apartment houses in the Bronx, indeed in New York City,” wrote Christopher Gray in his July 15, 2007 New York Times Streetscapes column. The six-story building, aka 1150 Grand Concourse, is an Art Deco delight designed by Horace Ginsbern and Marvin Fine. This Grand Concourse landmark gets

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NYC / Manhattan / 1 Gracie Square

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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NYC / Manhattan / 1 Fifth Avenue

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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NYC / Manhattan / Ritz Tower

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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NYC / Manhattan / La Rochelle

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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