The San Remo

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The San Remo from Central Park as seen from

The San Remo is a luxury apartment building on New York's Central Park , more precisely on Central Park West between West 74th Street and West 75th Street .

The building, completed by the architect Emery Roth in 1930, replaced the “San Remo” hotel, which had previously been located at this point and whose name was adopted for the new apartment building. It is the tallest of several well-known apartment buildings on the west side of Central Park. Other houses built by the same architect on the same street include: The Beresford , The Eldorado and The Ardsley . Less than a third that high is Dakota , just two blocks away , where John Lennon lived until his death.

The building has a U-shaped floor plan, which provides more rooms with natural light. The two towers that sit enthroned on the seventeen-story main structure and are designed in the English Baroque style are particularly striking. These have another ten floors and make the San Remo with a height of 122 m recognizable from a great distance. Contrary to what one might assume at first glance, these towers are not symmetrical, but rather have bulges on the side facing away from Central Park.

Today the San Remo with its location on Central Park is one of the most sought-after and with apartment prices between 3 and 24 million dollars also one of the most expensive addresses in New York. Some of the most famous residents are Steven Spielberg , Dustin Hoffman , Bono , who bought his apartment from Steve Jobs - who had the property extensively renovated but, according to the agent, never stayed a night there - and Bruce Willis .

Madonna, on the other hand, has tried in vain to buy an apartment in San Remo. It failed because of the contradiction of the "board" - the owner representation.

Web links

Commons : The San Remo  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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  1. ^ The Upper West Side Book. Retrieved November 27, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Beresford Apartment House. Retrieved November 27, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Ardsley Apartment House. Retrieved November 27, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Building data of the Dakota. Retrieved November 27, 2011 .
  5. ^ New York Times: Among the Rich, a New Dispute Over Air Rights
  6. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/19/nyregion/san-remo-co-op-board-rejects-madonna-s-bid.html

Coordinates: 40 ° 46 ′ 40.7 "  N , 73 ° 58 ′ 29.8"  W.