Architecture – New York City Co-op Apartments

145-146 Central Park West
The San Remo
1929
Renaissance Revival
Emery Roth


Today’s blog post is about the most famous New York City Co-op apartments. The quintessentially desirable addresses in Manhattan! The most storied addresses of the city.



720 Park Avenue
1928
Neoclassical architecture
Cross & Cross / Rosario Candela




740 Park Avenue
1929
Art Deco
Rosario Candela & Arthur Loomis Harmon
Considered a legendary address
“at one time considered (and still thought to be by some) the most luxurious and powerful residential building in New York City”



960 Fifth Avenue
1927
Warren & Wetmore / Rosario Candela
Considered along with 820 Fifth Avenue & 834 Fifth Avenue of the three top buildings on Fifth Avenue




211 Central Park West
The Beresford
1928
Renaissance Revival




834 Fifth Avenue
1931
Art Deco
Rosario Candela
It has been called “the most pedigreed building on the snobbiest street in the country’s most real estate-obsessed city”



435 East 52nd Street
River House
1930
Art Deco
Bottomley, Wagner & White



1 West 72nd Street
The Dakota
1884
German Renaissance
Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
Oldest remaining luxury apartment building in New York City
One of five top-tier apartment buildings on Central Park West the others are 88 Central Park West, 101 Central Park West, The San Remo, The Beresford



1040 5th Avenue
1920s
Rosario Candela
Along with 1020 Fifth Avenue and 998 Fifth considered the most luxurieous and prestigious co-operative buildings in the upper east side



998 5th Avenue
1912
Italian Renaissance
McKim, Mead & White
The building was the first super-luxury apartment house on Fifth Avenue. The architect was given unlimited permission to create whatever was necessary to lure the very wealthy into the building.



101 Central Park West
1929
Neo Renaissance



88 Central Park West
The Brentmore
1910



820 Fifth Avenue
One of the most expensive and exclusive apartment