Examines the resistance of property owners in New York City to selling to real estate developers, who plan to tear down the buildings and construct new ones in their place

Holdouts!

Business & Money

ALPERN, Andrew

Durst, Seymour B.

Real Estate

McGraw=Hill

This magnificently illustrated book reveals the architectural and decorative details of life at the top in Manhattan. More than 100 line drawings of floor plans and over 100 black-and-white photographs as well as fascinating mini-histories detail the vital statistics on 73 of New York City's best luxury apartment addresses.

New York's Fabulous Luxury Apartments: With Original Floor Plans from the Dakota, River House, Olympic Tower and Other Great Buildings

History

Americas

Dover Publications

Handsome, superbly illustrated volume provides detailed mini-histories of some of New York's most luxurious lodgings: the stately Gramercy, the fashionably flamboyant Ansonia, the dramatic Hotel des Artistes, Joseph Pulitzer's palatial residence, magnificent Park Avenue apartments, and many others. 175 illustrations — many from private sources — depict both interiors and exteriors. Introduction. Index.

Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan: An Illustrated History (Dover Architecture)

With more than 50 illustrations, including many rare views, this book features New York City's greatest treasures from the early decades of the 20th century. Many are famous for the controversies they inspired. Many more are well known for the celebrities who have called them home.

Historic Manhattan Apartment Houses

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Dover Pubns

Forward by former mayor John V. Lindsay, and a Forward to the Dover Edition by Norman Marcus.

New York's Architectural Holdouts

Durst, Seymour

Save yourself time, trouble, and expensive attorney's fees by consulting this indispensable guide to U.S. copyright law. Refreshingly free of legal jargon, its easy-to-follow question-and-answer format contains general advice and practical procedural suggestions for a variety of copyright problems and situations. Writers, composers, musicians, architects, inventors--everyone with an interest in copyright matters--will find this book a valuable and practical tool in applying for copyright protection, guarding against copyright infringement, and becoming familiar with the most important aspects of copyright law. Introduction. Index.

101 Questions About Copyright Law

Intellectual Property

Save yourself time, trouble, and expensive attorney's fees by consulting this indispensable guide to U.S. copyright law. Refreshingly free of legal jargon, its easy-to-follow question-and-answer format contains general advice and practical procedural suggestions for a variety of copyright problems and situations. Writers, composers, musicians, architects, inventors--everyone with an interest in copyright matters--will find this book a valuable and practical tool in applying for copyright protection, guarding against copyright infringement, and becoming familiar with the most important aspects of copyright law. Introduction. Index.

101 Questions About Copyright Law: Revised Edition

This handsome, oversized book introduces us to the grandest entrances of New York City's residential buildings. These posh portals come in an array of forms and styles, such as the&nbsp;porte cochere, with a passage to admit carriages or motor cars; the classic awning, originally meant to be retracted in good weather; and Neoclassical, Romanesque, and Gothic revivals.&nbsp;Architectural historian Andrew Alpern highlights approximately 140 entrances, from the nineteenth century to the present, including those of the Dakota, the first true luxury apartment house in New York; San Remo, one of Central Park West's most impressive apartment houses; and the Ansonia, at one time the largest hotel in the world. Each entrance is accompanied by a description of its signal features and the history of the building that surrounds it. All are represented in splendid color photographs, and many by charming watercolor drawings.These ornate entrances offer a glimpse into New York's past, as well as its future--for today, once again, entryways have begun to feature heavily in the marketing of residential buildings. Posh Portals will be an inspiration for architects and a delight for city dwellers.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Posh Portals: The Entrances to New York's Grandest Apartment Buildings

History & Criticism

Abbeville Press

Living on Park Avenue or Fifth could be regarded as a good sign you've arrived in New York but, for some, good is never quite good enough. True arbiters of taste define ultimate opulence by what hovers above and beyond the address: past the uniformed doorman, up the elevator, and across quiet thresholds. Here lies a world only a very privileged few call home Â— the coveted suites created by Rosario Candela and James Carpenter, time-honored masters of 20th century apartment house design. Originally published in 2002, THE NEW YORK APARTMENT HOUSES OF ROSARIO CANDELA AND JAMES CARPENTER remains the only major work on two of the most significant figures in the history of apartment house architecture. Richly illustrated with archival photographs and floor plans, the book provides the architectural and social history of the great buildings of Candela and Carpenter, demonstrating the breadth of the designers' contribution to Manhattan's exterior and interior landscape. Added to the vintage photographs of elevations and interiors are later interiors done by some of New YorkÂ’s design elite: Buatta, Couturier, Cullman, Ferguson Shamamian &amp; Rattner, Gwathmey, McMillen, Mark Hampton, Molyneux, Parish-Hadley, and others. "Rosario Candela has replaced Stanford White as the real estate brokers' name-drop of choice," writes New York Times "Streetscapes" columnist, Christopher Gray. "Nowadays, to own a 10- to 20-room apartment in a Candela-designed building is to accede to architectural, as well as social cynosure." "There was a wonderful assurance and solidity to his [Candela's] buildings," writes architecture critic Paul Goldberger. "They don't display any visible effort, in the greatest traditions of old money."

The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter

Reference

Gray, Christopher

Netto, David

Catalogs & Directories

Acanthus Pr Llc

A strip of land 5 inches wide and 78 feet deep owned by a taxi driver whose asking price killed a developer's plans for a huge apartment house. An empty 9- by 20-foot site in the middle of a Wall Street office building created by the site s former use as an outhouse at the end of the eighteenth century. A two-story building surrounded by a tall apartment house on Upper Broadway that owes its continued existence to the timing of Prohibition. These snapshots are of holdouts that got in the way. They appear whenever urban densities make land valuable and wherever a profit motive exists to trigger change. Holdouts are often thought of as David versus Goliath battles, but is David the little homeowner who doesn't want to abandon his hearth to the big heartless developer? Or is David the harried builder who has invested huge sums of money in buying up ninety percent of the land needed for development -- whose benefits would be enjoyed by thousands of citizens -- but whose plans are thwarted by the one landowner who controls the critical land parcel without which the project is doomed? What motivates a holdout? What are the problems when a holdout gets in the way? What impacts do holdouts have on how new buildings are planned and designed? What happens when a new structure has to be constructed next to, around, or even above an existing one that can't be removed? How have holdouts been dealt with over the years? Holdouts! depicts with vivid clarity the colorful personalities and outrageous actions that emerge in these stark confrontations. It describes epic battles that have been fought to erect buildings in New York. More than 200 illustrations and photographs show the holdouts before, during, and after the construction they delayed. This unique pictorial history will delight architecture buffs, New Yorkers, urban historians, indeed anyone interested in the sometimes hectic, sometimes pathetic, and sometimes hilarious struggles of individuals against real estate developers whose projects are so essential to the continuing economic viability of our large cities.

Holdouts!: The Buildings That Got in the Way

David R. Godine, Publisher

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