The Ritz Tower, New York City

The Ritz Tower, a 41-story apartment hotel located on the corner of Park Avenue and East 57th Street, Manhattan, erected between 1925 and 1927. Home of many celebrities since its opening.

Retouched photograph taken in the 1920s, looking northeast toward Ritz Tower Apartments (on print 1925, ? Brothers, N.Y.C.). Note: The Ritz Tower opened on October 15, 1926 and was really completed in 1927. Source: Library of Congress.

Text from the Landmarks Preservation Commission October 29, 2002: «The Ritz Tower Apartment Hotel was constructed in 1925 at the premier crossroads of New York's Upper East Side, the comer of 57th Street and Park Avenue, where the exclusive shops and artistic enterprises of 57th Street met apartment buildings of ever-increasing height and luxury on Park Avenue. Designed by the inventive and prolific architect Emery Roth, who was responsible for many luxury apartment buildings throughout Manhattan, the Ritz Tower was intended to be the ne plus ultra of apartment living. Thomas Hastings, the surviving partner of the prominent architectural firm of Carrere & Hastings helped to create the classically-inspired design. The developer, journalist Arthur Brisbane, hoped to increase the building's appeal by hiring the Ritz-Carlton Company to manage the building and its restaurants, as well as by lending use of its famous name.»