241 Central Park West is easily confused with 55 Central Park West – they were both designed by Schwartz & Gross; what’s more, the developer of record is 55 Central Park West Corp. (according to the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission). The brick and cast stone facade takes up the entire blockfront between W 84th and […]
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The Majestic Apartments, like sister building The Century, is a scaled-down version of Irwin Chanin’s original concept. Nonetheless, it is a New York architectural landmark for its Art Deco style – simultaneously bold and austere. According to the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), Chanin envisioned a 45-story full-service apartment hotel for the site. The single-tower
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55 Central Park West, among the first Art Deco apartment houses on the avenue, has become known as the “Ghostbusters Building.” In the 1984 movie, the building is attributed to insane architect Ivo Shandor. Schwartz & Gross, the real architects, must be spinning in their graves. They designed an innovative brick, stone and terra cotta
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The Century Apartments is among New York’s finest examples of Art Deco and residential architecture, and a nationally-recognized landmark. Yet it was only the architect’s “Plan B”! The building is one of a pair of twin-towered Art Deco landmarks (the other is ) designed and built by Irwin S. Chanin along Central Park West. Both
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The Ardsley is one of a handful of Art Deco apartment buildings on Central Park West – and considered by some to be Emery Roth’s finest Art Deco building, even surpassing his Eldorado, one block south. It’s a sharp departure from the styles Roth used in his other famous Central Park West apartment towers: Alden,
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El Dorado (aka The Eldorado*) is among New York’s most fabled apartment buildings – for its celebrity residents as much as for its stunning twin-tower Art Deco architecture. Despite (or because of?) the building’s impressive design, El Dorado (The Golden One) got off to a rocky start – foreclosure following the stock market crash. Though
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1675 Grand Concourse was designed by Jacob M. Felson in Art Deco style. The apartment building is part of the federal Grand Concourse Historic District. Name: 1675 Grand Concourse Location: 1675 Grand Concourse Year Completed: 1936 Architect: Jacob M. Felson Style: Art Deco National Register of Historic Places: Nomination Form Google Map All images copyright
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1500 Grand Concourse, one of many Jacob M. Felson-designed Art Deco apartment buildings in the Bronx, was built in 1935. Name: 1500 Grand Concourse Location: 1500 Grand Concourse Year Completed: 1935 Architect: Jacob M. Felson Style: Art Deco National Register of Historic Places: Nomination Form Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos
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1295 Grand Concourse, Sagamore Apartments, was designed by Herman M. Cohn. Name: Sagamore Apartments Location: 1295 Grand Concourse Year Completed: 1938 Architect: Herman M. Cohn Style: Art Deco National Register of Historic Places: Nomination Form Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken April 2015 with Canon 5D Mark iii
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1227 Grand Concourse, part of the Grand Concourse Historic District, was built in 1937 to plans of William Shary. Name: 1227 Grand Concourse Location: 1227 Grand Concourse Year Completed: 1937 Architect: William Shary Style: Art Deco National Register of Historic Places: Nomination Form Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken April
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