The San Remo is an upscale apartment building in New York City located at 146 Central Park West. Glen Justice of the New York Times describes it as “a dazzling two-tower building with captivating views of the park that has been home—or at least one home—to such celebrities as Steve Martin, Steve Jobs, Steven Spielberg and Demi Moore.” [1]
According to the same Times article, the San Remo is the one building whose residents donated the most money to Senator John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid (as of June 24 of that year).
The building's architect Emery Roth took advantage of new zoning regulations to build the first of New York's twin towered apartment blocks, each ten-storey tower topped with an English Baroque mansion in the manner of John Vanbrugh and capped with an homage to the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates. The Athenian monument was known to Roth from the reproduction that had featured in the the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. Roth also designed The Beresford and other landmark apartment houses and office blocks in New York. Construction began in 1929, weeks before the market crash initiated the Great Depression. In 1940 both buildings were sold, for $25,000 over the existing mortgages.
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Further reading
- Ruttenbaum, Steven. 1986. Mansions In The Clouds : The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Roth. (Balsam Press, New York)