Top 10 Apartment Buildings
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1. 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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2. 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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3. Ansonia Hotel
This 1908 apartment-hotel included soundproof partitions, a feature that has attracted many distinguished musicians.
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4. Apthorp Apartments
Modeled after an Italian Renaissance palazzo, this luxury 1908 building includes a huge interior courtyard.
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5. 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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6. 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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7. Century
Irwin Chanin’s second twin tower, the tallest on the block, and an Art Deco icon.
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8. 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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9. Eldorado
Another Art Deco Roth design. Groucho Marx and Marilyn Monroe were once tenants.
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10. 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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