4000 x 3000 px | 33,9 x 25,4 cm | 13,3 x 10 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
21. Oktober 2012
Ort:
211 Central Park West, Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, USA
Weitere Informationen:
The Beresford, at 211 Central Park West, between 81st and 82nd Streets, is an upscale, 23-floor apartment building in New York City. Designed by the architect Emery Roth, The Beresford, completed in 1929, is one of four Roth apartment blocks on Central Park West, including The El Dorado, the The San Remo, and The Ardsley. The Beresford is the largest by volume. Its mass relieved by horizontal belt courses, staggered setbacks governed by the 1916 Zoning Resolution, which provide some apartments with terraces, and architectural detailing that gives an impression of Georgian houses embedded in the mass. It takes its name from the Hotel Beresford, which had occupied the site since 1889. The Beresford has two very prominent street-front facades, crowned by its three distinctive octagonal copper-capped corner towers, the eastern facade overlooks Central Park; and the southern facade overlooks Theodore Roosevelt Park, the park that contains the American Museum of Natural History. The massive block is opened to the west, giving it a U-shape, wrapped round a central court. Three elevators give separate access to small foyers, originally each accessing two apartments of a scale that was eliminated in New York, both by the stock market crash and the new Multiple Dwellings Law. The building's residents have included comedian Jerry Seinfeld, singer Diana Ross, tennis player John McEnroe, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, actor Tony Randall, and musician Laura Nyro
