The Normandy
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The Normandy, at 140 Riverside Drive
and 86th Street, is a luxury residential cooperative apartment
building in Manhattan
, New York City
. It is one of the city's best Art Deco
buildings, and the last of the great twin-towered apartment houses built by architect Emery Roth
; it was in The Normandy the Roth chose to live in in his retirement years. The AIA Guide to New York City comments on the building's "senuous curves".
A 1978 review of Roth's work by architecture critic Paul Goldberger
in the New York Times commented that
The Normandy is a New York City landmark building.
Riverside Drive
A number of cities around the world have a Riverside Drive.In the United States:*Riverside Drive *Riverside Drive *Riverside Drive *Riverside Drive...
and 86th Street, is a luxury residential cooperative apartment
Housing cooperative
A housing cooperative is a legal entity—usually a corporation—that owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings. Each shareholder in the legal entity is granted the right to occupy one housing unit, sometimes subject to an occupancy agreement, which is similar to a lease. ...
building in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. It is one of the city's best Art Deco
Art Deco
Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...
buildings, and the last of the great twin-towered apartment houses built by architect Emery Roth
Emery Roth
Emery Roth was an American architect who designed many of the definitive New York City hotels and apartment buildings of the 1920s and 30s, incorporating Beaux-Arts and Art Deco details...
; it was in The Normandy the Roth chose to live in in his retirement years. The AIA Guide to New York City comments on the building's "senuous curves".
A 1978 review of Roth's work by architecture critic Paul Goldberger
Paul Goldberger
Paul Goldberger is the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, where since 1997 he has written the magazine's celebrated "Sky Line" column. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City...
in the New York Times commented that
the Roth firm took on modernism slowly – the Normandy apartments of 1938 at 140 Riverside Drive have an Art Deco-like base, but the ornamental housing for the water tower lurches back suddenly to the Italian Renaissance. There were a few other such schizophrenic [Roth] designs from the 30's and buildings such as 930 Fifth Avenue930 Fifth Avenue930 Fifth Avenue is a luxury apartment building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The eighteen-story structure and penthouse was designed by noted architect Emery Roth and built in 1940...
and 875 Fifth Avenue of 1940 show a gradual disappearance of the old ornament.
The Normandy is a New York City landmark building.