Top 10 Luxury Pre-War Apartment Buildings in New York City
#1 - 998 Fifth Avenue
The city's first major luxury apartment building on Fifth Avenue to look suitable for Italian Renaissance princes and princesses, this building has full-floor museums for its live-in connoisseurs.
#2 - River House, 435 East 52nd Street
One senses that "Dancing in the Dark" is played more often than the Bee Gees' "You Should Be Dancing" in this Art Deco-style emporium of very plush decorum overlooking the East River.
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#3 - 834 Fifth Avenue
Once inside the entrance, the lobby is darkly enchanting as befits the enchanted lives of its few residents.
#4 - 960 Fifth Avenue
They may not holler "Let 'em eat cake" at pedestrians because they've got their own very handsome and elegant sidestreet residents' restaurant.
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#5 - 820 Fifth Avenue
This very handsome limestone apartment building has very, very attractive sidewalk landscaping, so keep off.
#6 - The San Remo, 145 Central Park West
If you see vestal virgins they're probably wafting up to the tempiettos atop this building's beautiful twin towers.
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#7 - The Beresford, 211 Central Park West
The bright lights atop the three towers of this palatial apartment building are the equal of major fireworks displays across the street above Central Park.
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#8 - The Dakota, 1 West 72nd Street
Memories are made of this guard-house, dragon-moated pile of beige and brown bricks and somebody's baby.
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#9 - 740 Park Avenue
Most visitors here wear black-tie rather than pin-striped, gray flannel suits that would better blend into the gray polished granite entrance columns just because proper parties here are more formal.
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#10 - 720 Park Avenue
If 740 Park Avenue grabs a lot of headlines, you can always cut in for "The Last Dance" at 720 Park Avenue....
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