Brentmore’s U-shape plan gives the appearance of two buildings, when viewed from Central Park. Unlike its modern neighbor, Brentmore has the classical tripartite design of base, shaft, capital. The Beaux Arts/neo-Renaissance landmark was designed by prolific architects Schwartz & Gross, and completed in 1910. Name: Brentmore Location: 88 Central Park West Year Completed: 1910 Architect: […]
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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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140 Riverside Drive, The Normandy, designed by Emery Roth, is also where the famed architect retired to. The twin-towered building has twin entrances and lobbies on West 86th and West 87th Streets. In its designation report, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission gushed, “The Normandy Apartments is one of the most outstanding apartment buildings on Manhattan’s
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480 Park Avenue, The Antoinettes, is one of those buildings that makes a non-architect wonder: Why is so much decoration put so high, where no one can see it? Modest decoration appears on the three-story base; but at the 13th floor and above, there’s a proliferation of terra cotta. Garlands, grotesques, medallions, dentil and egg-and-dart
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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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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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