The Beresford is among the most celebrated creations of one of New York’s most celebrated architects, Emery Roth. The building’s 200-foot-square, 22-story mass is highly visible, its three towers permanently etched in the skyline – the view protected by Central Park to the east and the American Museum of Natural History to the south. Beresford […]
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San Remo is one of the high points – literally and figuratively – of the Central Park West skyline, and of the career of architect Emery Roth. The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) gushed that the building “…epitomizes Roth’s ability to combine the traditional with the modern, an urbane amalgam of luxury and convenience, decorum
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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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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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300 West 38th Street, a little three-story brick and terra cotta building in the Garment District, was one of the first designs of an architectural giant, Emery Roth. Some of the decoration and design elements – minus the recent garish paint – are seen in Emery Roth’s later works. Name: 300 West 38th Street Location:
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