888 Grand Concourse has seen better days. But even in decline, the curvaceous Art Deco landmark is striking and memorable. The bold corner treatment, in particular, stands out for its concave gilt and mosaic entry. The Emery Roth-designed apartment building stands at E 161st Street, across the “Boulevard of Dreams” from the old Bronx County […]
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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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2 Sutton Place South is an Emery Roth-designed cooperative apartment building with unique corner porte cochere. Name: 2 Sutton Place South Location: 2 Sutton Place South Year Completed: 1938 Architect: Emery Roth City Realty: Carter Horsley review Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken 2014, 2018 with Canon 5D Mark iii,
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Hotel des Artistes was conceived as an apartment hotel, owned by and designed for artists, to incorporate studio space. Almost the entire north side of West 67th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue was developed with the same idea. Name: Hotel des Artistes Location: 1 West 67th Street Year Completed: 1918 Architect: George
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1 Sutton Place South is a luxury apartment building designed by Rosario Candela. Built in 1927, it is now a cooperative. Name: 1 Sutton Place South Location: 1 Sutton Place South Year Completed: 1927 Architect: Rosario Candela Style: Italian Renaissance Wikipedia: One Sutton Place South City Realty: Carter Horsley review Google Map All images copyright
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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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