The Beresford is 22 stories tall and is topped by octagonal towers on its northeast, southwest, and southeast corners.
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23 Facts About The Beresford
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The Beresford replaced an 11-story apartment building with the same name, built in 1889 and 1892.
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The Beresford was acquired in 1940 by an investment syndicate, which owned the building for the next two decades.
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The Beresford is at 211 Central Park West in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
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The Beresford is situated on an approximately square land lot with an area of 40,350 square feet.
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The Beresford is one of several apartment buildings on Central Park West that are primarily identified by an official name.
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The Beresford's name is derived directly from a previous building on the site.
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The syndicate that developed the Beresford had erected the San Remo, seven blocks south, shortly after the Beresford was completed.
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The Beresford has three octagonal towers above the northeast, southwest, and southeast corners of the 20th story.
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Each of the entrances on 81st Street and Central Park West leads to its own lobby; as a result, the Beresford is divided functionally into three sections, and staff must go outdoors to travel between each section.
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The construction of the new The Beresford had prompted another developer to buy an adjacent group of row houses and develop an apartment building there.
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The Beresford had been able to rent out many of its suites for $1,000 per room but, after the Wall Street Crash, similar buildings on Central Park West were not able to match that rate.
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The bank's relationship to the Beresford became publicly known after a bank official testified that he had been ordered to burn the bank's documents in the Beresford's incinerator.
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The Beresford had still not been sold by the next year, prompting the department to adjust the building's mortgage loan to facilitate its sale.
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The Beresford officially became a co-op in June 1962 after existing tenants and newcomers bought shares in the co-op for half of the apartments.
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The Beresford was one of twelve apartment buildings on Central Park West to be converted into housing cooperatives in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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The Beresford was protected as an official city landmark in 1987, and Akam Associates replaced Douglas Elliman as the building's leasing agent in 1989.
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The Beresford's superintendent had even created a "Beresford Wall of Fame" with photographs of celebrities who lived there.
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The Beresford remained a luxury apartment house during the early 20th century.
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Paul Goldberger of The New York Times wrote in 1976 that the Beresford was "a glorious building whose three castle-like towers and fine siting have made it a long-beloved West Side landmark".
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In 1996, a writer for Interior Design magazine said the Beresford was "among the Upper West Side's top-drawer co-ops, the buildings that evoke the basic emotions of lust and envy when one thinks-or dreams-of the apartments within".
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John Freeman Gill of the Times wrote in 2005 that the Beresford was one of several buildings on Central Park West whose bases exhibited "the comfortable old solidity of limestone".
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The Beresford is part of the Upper West Side Historic District, which became a New York City historic district in 1990.
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