Top 10 Watertank Enclosures, West Side
#1 - Trump Parc, 106 Central Park South
This Central Park South skyscraper originally had an unusual, all-glass pinnacle with narrow ribs of reinforced concrete that transformed the top into a prism of light but when World War II made the city discourage nightime illumination of buildings its present top was created, a muscular and very dramatic griping of the sky.
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#2 - The San Remo, 145 Central Park West
The twin towers of this Emery Roth residential building are modeled on the ancient Greek Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens but their circular, colonnaded "temples" are much more attractive.
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#3 - The Beresford, 211 Central Park West
Here, Emery Roth designed three baroque, hexagonal towers with large, arched windows topped buy oval windows with broken pediments beneath pyramidal roofs with large copper lanterns containing very bright lights.
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#4 - The Majestic, 115 Central Park West
This building and the Century further down Central Park West were twin-towered apartment buildings not designed by Emery Roth but Jacques Delamarre for Irwin S. Chanin with wrap-around corner windows and streamlined geometric sculptural treatment and smaller apartments.
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#5 - The Eldorado, 300 Central Park West
This 28-story residential building has twin towers designed by Emery Roth with abstract geometic spires that have been likened to Flash Gordon finials.
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#6 - The Oliver Cromwell, 12 West 72nd Street
Credited with inaugurating the transformation of its neighborhood into one of the most distinctive areas architecturally of the city, this mid-block tower has numberous setbacks culminatinng in an octagonal drum beneath a terracotta lantern that emitted steam.
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#7 - The Alexandria, 201 West 72nd Street
This very handsome, 25-story building was erected in 1991 with 202 residential condominium apartments and was designed by Frank Williams & Associates and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with a wonderful Post-Modern watertank of Egyptian motifs.
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#8 - Central Park Place, 301 West 57th Street
With its pale-green aluminum cladding, this 55-story residential condominium tower designed by Davis, Brody & Associates has a high-tech, octagonal watertank enclosure.
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#9 - The Alfred, 161 West 61st Street
With its large mansard roof hiding its watertank, the 38-story Alfred opened in 1987 with 224 condominium apartments.
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#10 - The Normandy, 140 Riverside Drive
Named after a great French oceanliner that eventually capsized at its New York City pier, this handsome building was the largest residential construction project in the city in 1939 and its two squat towers had penthouses with glass-brick circular stairways and fireplaces.
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