The San Remo

Built in 1929, 138 residences across 28 floors.

145 Central Park West, 10023

The San Remo was designed by Emery Roth and built in 1929 and 1930. It is the first of the twin towered buildings that give Central Park West its skyline. Below the towers it is a brick mass in classical dress, and above them it becomes two slender shafts.

An earlier and unrelated San Remo stood here, a ten story building of 1890 by Edward Angell. Roth replaced it completely, so nothing of 1890 survives in what is standing.

The park front is heavily worked and the work is not uniform. Limestone enframements, balustraded balconies carried on console brackets, brick pilasters and scrolled cartouches are concentrated at particular floors, and the corner pavilions are defined by pilasters running through them. The result indoors is that window openings differ floor to floor. A treatment or a run of millwork detailed for one apartment will not transfer to the same position two floors up without being redrawn.

Windows are the most regulated element here. More than a hundred applications have touched them, so the Commission has a long settled view of what is allowed at the opening and a proposal is read against that history.

Within walking distance

Building facts

New York City Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output, version 26v1. Tax lot 1011270029.