The Beresford is a photograph by Ed Weidman which was uploaded on December 14th, 2013.
The Beresford
The Beresford, at 211 Central Park West, between 81st and 82nd Streets, is a luxury, 23-floor apartment building in New York City. Designed by the... more
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The Beresford
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The Beresford, at 211 Central Park West, between 81st and 82nd Streets, is a luxury, 23-floor apartment building in New York City. Designed by the architect Emery Roth, The Beresford, completed in 1929, is one of the most prestigious addresses in Manhattan and one of city's most elite coops running along Central Park West. In recent years, apartments have sold for between $3 million and $22 million. It is one of four Roth apartment blocks on Central Park West, including The El Dorado, the The San Remo, and The Ardsley. The Beresford is the largest by volume. Its mass relieved by horizontal belt courses, staggered setbacks governed by the 1916 Zoning Resolution, which provide some apartments with terraces, and architectural detailing that gives an impression of Georgian houses embedded in the mass. It takes its name from the Hotel Beresford, which had occupied the site since 1889. The Beresford has two very prominent street-front facades, crowned by its three distinctive octagonal copper-capped corner towers, the eastern facade overlooks Central Park; and the southern facade overlooks Theodore Roosevelt Park, the park that contains the American Museum of Natural History
The massive block is opened to the west, giving it a U-shape, wrapped round a central court. Three elevators give separate access to small foyers, originally each accessing two apartments of a scale that was eliminated in New York, both by the stock market crash and the new Multiple Dwellings Law.
The building's residents have included comedian Jerry Seinfeld, singer Diana Ross,tennis player John McEnroe, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, actor Tony Randall, fund manager Bill Ackman, and musician Laura Nyro.
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Kellice Swaggerty
I definitely love the "angle" of this fine capture, Ed! And aiming upward with a wide angle gives this historic building a very dominant presence. Thanks too for such a valuable description. I learned a lot of things I had never realized about this building which I remember first seeing back in the 1960's! F/V FB
Ed Weidman replied:
kellice thanks very much! yes its a grand historic building,i think most would recognize it as seen from the central park lake.the opening credits for many tv shows use it also:)