247 Central Park West View of 247 Central Park West from north east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 247 Central Park West by Tom Miller In 1887 architect, Edward Angell designed a row of nine upscale homes along Central Park from 84th to 85th Street for developer William Noble. Ground was broken in 1888 and construction was completed...
145 Central Park West View of 145 Central Park West from north east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 145 Central Park West – San Remo Apartments by Tom Miller The once magnificent San Remo Hotel on Central Park West and 75th Street, opened in 1891, was decidedly out of fashion by the 1920’s, when modern Art Deco buildings...
25 Central Park West View of 25 Central Park West from north east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 25 Central Park West – The Century by Tom Miller The massive 1909-Century Theatre (originally the New Theatre) was sold by the Shubert Brothers in 1929 to the Chanin Construction Co., headed by architect/developer Irwin...
354 & 355 Central Park West View of 354 & 355 Central Park West from south east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 354 & 355 Central Park West by Tom Miller While magnificent palaces facing Central Park rose along Fifth Avenue in the 1880s, Central Park West sat mostly undeveloped. The problem was that landholders,...
455 Central Park West View of 455 Central Park West from south east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 455 Central Park West – The New York Cancer Hospital by Tom Miller At the same time that Charlotte Augusta Astor, wife of John Jacob Astor III, was actively supporting cancer research and the care of victims of the then-incurable disease,...
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