65 Central Park West View of 65 Central Park West from south east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 65 Central Park West by Tom Miller The 1920’s saw Central Park West transformed as late Victorian residential hotels and at least one theater made way for the streamlined, Art Deco apartment buildings that would define the upscale...
370 Central Park West View of 370 Central Park West from north east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 370 Central Park West by Tom Miller Fred Fillmore French founded the Fred F. French Company in 1910 when he was just 27 years old. At the time, the firm consisted of himself and a boy whom he paid $15 a week. He succeeded in the real...
251 Central Park West View of 251 Central Park West from south east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Rossleigh Court by Tom Miller On August 4, 1906, the Record & Guide noted, “Famous as a thoroughfare of fine apartment houses, Central Park West is seeing in the present more improving work than at any period in its history since the...
300 Central Park West View of 300 Central Park West from south east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The El Dorado by Tom Miller At the turn of the last century Central Park West saw the rise of fashionable residential hotels and apartment buildings like the 1901 El Dorado between 90th and 91st Streets. But their Victorian designs quickly...
LW! is doing a little time traveling to explore the darker side of the development of Central Park. It is somewhat miraculous that the park even exists, as back in the 1850s real estate developers and politicians were just as cozy as today. Add in the nefarious reign of William Marcy “Boss” Tweed, notorious leader of New York...
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