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NYC / Manhattan / Ardsley

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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NYC / Manhattan / Normandy

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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NYC / Manhattan / Antoinettes

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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NYC / Manhattan / El Dorado

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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NYC / Manhattan / Alden

225 Central Park West, Alden, was designed by Emery Roth in neo-Renaissance style, and erected in 1926. Name: Alden Location: 225 Central Park West Year Completed: 1926 Architect: Emery Roth Style: neo-Renaissance NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report Wikipedia: Central Park West Historic District City Realty: Carter Horsley review Google Map All images copyright ©

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NYC / Manhattan / Beresford

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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NYC / Manhattan / San Remo

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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NYC / Bronx / Noonan Plaza Apartments

Noonan Plaza Apartments, designed by Horace Ginsbern and Marvin Fine, are Art Deco landmarks in the Highbridge section of The Bronx. Name: Noonan Plaza Apartments Location: 105-149 West 168th Street, 1231-1245 Nelson Avenue, 1232-1244 Ogden Avenue Year Completed: 1931 Architect: Horace Ginsbern and Marvin Fine Style: Art Deco NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission: Designation Report Google

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