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About 200 Central Park South
This 35-story tower is one of the most distinctive in the city with its curved arc corner and continuous bands of balconies in its base.
Built by Bernard Spitzer and Melvin D. Lipman, and designed by Wechsler & Schimenti, this beige-brick tower commands spectacular views of Central Park and the curved facade permits more apartments to have park views.
The setback tower, which occupies the top 14 floors is not curved, but has angled corner windows to maximize views. The tower's facade has a horizontal fenestration pattern that continues the banding motif of the base, albeit without balconies.
The building was erected in 1963 and converted to a cooperative in 1984. It has 309 apartments and is directly across Seventh Avenue from the very handsome New York Athletic Club.
The building's entrance is landscaped and spacious at the busy corner, which is an exit for the Central Park Drive south road.
The building's location is convenient both to midtown and the Lincoln Center district and is close to many famous theme restaurants on 57th Street.
The building's design was described by Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins and David Fishman in their book, "New York 1960, Architecture And Urbanism Between The Second World War And The Bicentennial," (The Monacelli Press, 1995), as "a kind of aggressive, self-referential Modernism that had hitherto been largely absent from Manhattan."
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