Emery Roth’s New York Apartment Buildings

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The apartment buildings and hotels designed by Emery Roth in the 1920s and 1930s – blue chip buildings such as Park Avenue's Ritz Tower and the Central Park West landmarks, the Beresford, the San Remo, the Ardsley – have shaped the ideal of residential luxury evoked in the phrase “prewar building.” In this new edition of Emery Roth’s New York Apartment Buildings, architectural historian Andrew Alpern brings together his meticulously researched catalogue raisonné of Roth’s work, illustrated with spectacular new color photography by Kenneth Grant, with a facsimile reproduction of the classic, long out-of-print monograph by Steven Ruttenbaum, Mansions in the Clouds. The volume also contains a foreword by writer and critic Paul Goldberger.

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Andrew Alpern

Andrew Alpern is an architectural historian, architect, and attorney who is an expert on historic apartment houses in New York. He has eleven prior books, seven of which tell the stories of New York’s architectural assets and the people behind them. He has been a resident of Manhattan since 1938.

Steven Ruttenbaum

Steven Ruttenbaum was an architectural historian and a leading authority on Emery Roth.

Kenneth G. Grant

Kenneth G. Grant is an architectural photographer with a special passion for the buildings of his native New York. To see more of his work and to order copies, visit his website at newyorkarchitecture.com.