The Park Plaza Apartments were one of the first and most prominent Art Deco apartment buildings erected in the Bronx in New York City. The eight-story, polychromatic terra cotta embellished structure at 1005 Jerome Avenue and West 164th Street was designed by Horace Ginsberg and Marvin Fine and completed in 1931. It is an eight-story building divided into five blocks or section, each six bays wide. There are about 200 apartments, ranging from one to five rooms.[2]
Park Plaza Apartments | |
New York City Landmark No. 1077
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 Park Plaza Apartments, March 2011 | |
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| Location | 1005 Jerome Ave., Bronx, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°49′53″N 73°55′36″W / 40.83139°N 73.92667°W |
| Built | 1928 |
| Architect | Horace Ginsbern; Marvin Fine |
| Architectural style | Art Deco |
| NRHP reference No. | 82003346 |
| NYCL No. | 1077 |
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| Added to NRHP | June 3, 1982[1] |
| Designated NYCL | May 12, 1981 |
Officially designated a New York City Landmark in 1981, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, it faced the lushly treed landscape of Macombs Dam Park until 2006, when the 28-acre (110,000 m2) park was condemned for a new Yankee Stadium.
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- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ Anthony W. Robins and Anne B. Covell (February 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Park Plaza Apartments". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-01-12. See also: "Accompanying four photos".
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