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Upper West Side : 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.
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.
3. Ansonia Hotel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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