Roth created an elegant building with twenty-seven floors whose structure rose in a “U” shape fourteen floors over the street. The two-tower construction enabled more windows, which meant more light, and avoided the construction of long elevator corridors. The San Remo was built in the Beaux-Arts style of architecture, that often reminded to the one in the Italian palazzos of the Renaissance, yet it also had numerous Art-Decó references.

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Its most highlightable feature is, as said, the two 10-floor towers, decorated in Greco-Roman style, culminated in Renaissance-style Corinthian temples crowned by 22-foot-high copper lanterns. Unlike commonly believed, they are not symmetrical, and the apartments’ structure held in each one of them is also different. In the north tower, each apartment occupied a whole floor and offered two bedrooms with Park views, while in the south tower, the departments were duplex style with room for the service.

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The San Remo is probably one of the most expensive buildings in the city of New York and since 1972 also a cooperative building, which means that tenants in the apartments are actually shareholders in the corporation that owns the building. If you’re planning to move to The San Remo, recent prizes have ranged from a minimum of $3 million, to Demi Moore’s south tower two-stories unit (the last in the building) in the very top of this tower, for what she asked $75 million. As said, it is expensive, and Demi Moore´s apartment is still for sale in case you are interested.

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