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Central Park Tower, 225 West 57th Street, Manhattan, New York City

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Central Park Tower 98 étages 442 m

Situé au Nordstrom Tower, à un bloc de Central Park d'où le nom qu'on lui attribue généralement. Le bâtiment se trouve entre Broadway et la 7th avenue, il occupe l'espace compris entre les 57 et 58 èmes rues. Il compte 98 étages dont les sept premiers seront consacrés au commerce de détail et dont les magasins appartiendront à la compagnie Nordstrom. Les 88 étages suivants seront composés d'appartements de luxe. Au total, la tour comportera 183 logements

May 15 2021

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Around Central Park, Manhattan (No. 1)

55 Central Park West is a 19-floor housing cooperative located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. The building was designed by the architectural firm Schwartz & Gross, and built in 1929. The building is a contributing property within the Central Park West Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The building holds significance in American popular culture because the plot of the 1984 film Ghostbusters revolves heavily around it. Although the building does not have an official name, it is often colloquially referred to as The Ghostbusters Building, The Shandor Building, The Shandor Apartments or Spook Central, the fictional names it is given in the film.

Plans for the building, between 65th and 66th Streets, were filed by architectural firm Schwartz & Gross at the behest of Victor Earle and John C. Calhoun, for whom they were working. Earle, and his brother Guyon, had been actively developing the Upper West Side of New York City since the 1910s.

The structure is considered to be mostly "second tier"[4] by the socialite New Yorkers who occupy most of the buildings along Central Park West. It was opened as a rental property in 1930. Its neighbor to the south is the earlier Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. Upon its opening Real Estate magazine praised it as resembling "Jungfrau, that most beloved snowcapped Alpine peak."

Musician Rudy Vallee and industrial designer Raymond Loewy were two of the building's earliest residents. Ginger Rogers was one of its residents during her Broadway days in the early 1930s. Hat designer Lilly Dache with husband Jean Despres of Coty Perfume were residents following their 1931 marriage until 1935. Other residents of the building have included Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Noel Ashman, Ring Lardner, Jr., and Marsha Mason. The duplex penthouse on the 19th and 20th floors was owned by composer Jerry Herman in the 1970s, before he sold it for $1 million to Klein (who later sold it, and then bought it again in the 1990s). David Geffen later purchased it for $6 million, before selling it for $8.6 million to music executive Steve Gottlieb, who in turn listed it the week his record label TVT Records filed for bankruptcy. He sold the apartment to Marc Lasry (co-founder and CEO of the Avenue Capital Group) for $33 million in 2014.

The exterior of the building is somewhat non-traditional. As the brick facade rises from the ground it changes shade from deep purple to yellow-white. Color was widely used during the 1920s as a tool in architecture for overall effects. The rental brochure stated: "new modernistic design of exterior with beautiful shaded color scheme". The New Yorker's architecture critic, George S. Chappell, praised the building's use of color, said, "the total effect is exhilarating."

The building is a contributing property to the Central Park West Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 9, 1982. It is also a contributing property to the New York City's Upper West Side / Central Park West local historic district. Benjamin Schwarz, writing for The Atlantic, said of the buildings along Central Park West, "no endeavor on earth is more arduous than getting into one of these buildings," and specifically cited the "details of Donna Karan's deal for her digs at 55 Central Park West."

The building holds significance in American popular culture as it was prominently featured in the 1984 comedy Ghostbusters. In the film, "550 Central Park West" – known also as The Shandor Building, The Shandor Apartments or "Spook Central" by Dr. Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) – was the residence of the Ghostbusters' first client, cellist Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver). They later learn it had been designed and constructed by insane architect and surgeon Ivo Shandor, who founded and led a secret society in 1920, The Cult of Gozer. Consisting of over a thousand followers, The Cult was dedicated to the worship of Gozer the Gozerian, an ancient, ultra-powerful, apocalyptic entity first worshipped by the Hittites, the Mesopotamians and the Sumerians. The members of The Gozerian Cult were the original occupants of the apartment building, which Shandor had devised as a modern-day ziggurat. They performed bizarre rituals on the roof after its completion (the actual building was built in 1929), seeking to summon Gozer The Destructor and end the world. Since Ghostbusters first hit theaters, 55 Central Park West has been known as the "Ghostbusters Building;" it was portrayed much taller and with the rooftop temple, via the eight floors that were added to exterior shots of it via matte painting by Production designer/Art director John DeCuir. The Gozerian Temple consisted of its massive, ornate shrine, altars, obelisks and the iconic gargoyle statues depicting The Terror Dogs, Zuul The Gatekeeper and Vinz Clortho The Keymaster.

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First-ever images of inside $17.5million luxury condo in New York City - the world's tallest residential skyscraper - show floor-to-ceiling windows that give it panoramic views of Central Park and the city

First-ever images of inside $17.5million luxury condo in New York City – the world’s tallest residential skyscraper – show floor-to-ceiling windows that give it panoramic views of Central Park and the city

Central Park Tower at 217 West 57th Street in Manhattan is world’s tallest residential skyscraper

Extell Development, company which developed the property, released model images from interior of condo

It shows floor-to-ceiling windows that offer panoramic views of Central Park from the 43rd floor

Three-bedroom condo includes a master bedroom, master bathroom, guest room, kitchen, and dining…

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Billionaire's Row - New York

Billionaire's Row is a selection of ultra-luxury residential skyscrapers in Midtown Manhattan, with living spaces owned by some of the richest people on the planet. Some of these skyscrapers are still under construction, such as Central Park Tower, which will have the highest roof height of any building outside of Asia when completed, and 111 West 57th Street, with an astonishing width to height ratio of 1:24.

From left to right, the skyscrapers in this Lego model are: 220 Central Park South, Central Park Tower, One57, 111 West 57th Street, 53W53, 432 Park Avenue, 520 Park Avenue, and 252 East 57th Street.

Created by Jacob Harper

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Right to Left:

(-Central Park Place condominium building (1988) 301 West 57th Street.)

---220 Central Park South residential skyscraper

---Central Park Tower (Construction) (Nordstrom Tower) 217 West 57th Street.This new architectural landmark will rise 1,550 feet (472 m) above New York City, establishing it as the tallest residential building in the world.

-JW Marriott Essex House (1931) 160 Central Park South, (The hotel is located on part of the expansive site of Francisco de Navarro's "Navarro Flats", built in the 1880s as an experiment in condominium apartments. Construction began on October 30, 1929, one day after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The hotel was first intended to be named the Park Tower and then the Sevilla Tower. However the Great Depression slowed construction and the hotel did not open until October 1, 1931, as the Essex House). On the left:

-Hampshire House 150 Central Park South (The site of Hampshire House was originally the site of an eight-building housing cooperative complex called Navarro Flats, which was built from 1882 to 1884 However Navarro Flats was not successful, closed by the 1920s, Hampshire House was first planned at the site in 1926, Construction of the $6 million Hampshire House was delayed until January 1931, the structure was done by July 1931. but the building's developers ran out of money and the interior design and roof was not completed The building opened in fall 1937 as a rental building.)

- (Middle Glass Building) One 57 Residential condominiums and hotel (2014) 157 West 57th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues formerly known as One 57 and nicknamed The Billionaire Building.

-(Black Building) Metropolitan Tower Condominium (1987) 146 West 57th Street, residential skyscraper

-(Round Rofftop) CitySpire Center (1987) at 150-156 West 56th Street south side of West 56th Street between 6th and 7th Avenue

---11 West 57th Street also known as The Steinway Tower. (Construction) One of the tallest buildings in the United States(1,428 ft (435 m)) , as well as the thinnest skyscraper in the world with a width-to-height ratio of about 1:23 or 1:24.

Central Park view June 2019.