Manhattan · NYC landmark
Ritz Tower
465 Park Avenue · Manhattan, New York City
An apartment hotel whose shared kitchens helped make an unusually tall residential tower possible.
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NYFE Summary
Arthur Brisbane developed the building as an apartment hotel with central kitchens. Meals traveled by dumbwaiter to pantries on the residential floors. Leaving out individual kitchens allowed a taller building under the rules then applied to apartment hotels.
Large setbacks carry the eye upward to a pointed roof and obelisk. At the lower floors, carved children, urns and stonework provide details that can be seen from the sidewalk. The building's height and domestic services were closely linked.
NYFE summary from the official history and visitor sources linked below.
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