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  • Ansonia Hotel

    This 1908 apartment-hotel included soundproof partitions, a feature that has attracted many distinguished musicians.

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  • Apthorp Apartments

    Modeled after an Italian Renaissance palazzo, this luxury 1908 building includes a huge interior courtyard.

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  • Belnord

    Even larger than the Apthorp, this 1908 Renaissance Revival structure is where Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer lived and wrote.

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  • Century

    Irwin Chanin’s second twin tower, the tallest on the block, and an Art Deco icon.

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  • Dakota

    Famous as the site where John Lennon was shot, the block was thought so far west in 1884, it might as well be in Dakota.

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  • Dorilton

    One of the most flamboyant examples of the Beaux Arts era, this 1902 apartment house has an iron gate fit for a palace.

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  • Eldorado

    Another Art Deco Roth design. Groucho Marx and Marilyn Monroe were once tenants.

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  • Hotel des Artistes

    Built in 1918 to serve as artists’ studios and apartments, the lofty spaces are much coveted. Residents have included Noel Coward, Isadora Duncan, and Joel Grey.

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  • Majestic

    The first of Irwin Chanin’s two 1931 landmarks, one of the original four twin towers that dominate the West Side skyline.

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  • San Remo

    Emery Roth’s 1930 Art Deco masterpiece is a sophisticated adaptation of Renaissance forms. The twin towers hide water tanks.

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