Ritz Tower - late 1920s
The Ritz Tower Apartment Hotel on Park Avenue, corner of East 57th Street, looking north. Photo by Brown Bros, in a vintage postcard Rotary Photo, E.C.; L. Jonas & Co., Inc., postmark June 1929.
The Ritz Tower, a 41-story apartment hotel built between 1925 and 1927, is located at 465 Park Avenue (main entrance) and 101 East 57th Street, New York City. At the time, it was the tallest residential building in New York City. The Ritz was designed in 1925 by Emery Roth and Thomas Hastings. Developer Arthur Brisbane hired the Ritz-Carlton Company to manage the building, lending its name for his enterprise. In 1955, Harry J. Riker of Riker & Co. announced the building would be converted to a housing cooperative and itstopped allowing short-term rentals in 1987. It was designated a New York City Landmark in 2002. Today, it is a co-operative apartment building.
The Ritz Tower's tenants have included actresses Greta Garbo, Kitty Carlisle, Paulette Goddard, Deborah Kerr, and Arlene Francis, William Randolph Hearst Jr., son of the publisher, and many others.
The 14-story building on the left, adjoining Ritz Tower at 475 Park Avenue, corner of East 58th Street, was erected in 1908. Later, it had its façades completely changed. The building on the right, on the southeast corner of 57th Street, was replaced by a 22-story building (445 Park Avenue) in 1947.
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Ritz Tower - late 1920s