The Colosseum is an apartment building located at 116th Street and Riverside Drive in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City.
| The Colosseum | |
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_cropped.jpg) The Colosseum in 1910. | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Residential |
| Location | 435-437 Riverside Drive, Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City |
| Coordinates | 40°48′32″N 73°57′57″W / 40.808780°N 73.965733°W |
| Completed | 1910 |
| Height | 132.91 ft (40.51 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 10 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architecture firm | Schwartz & Gross |
| Developer | Paterno Brothers |
| References | |
| [1] | |
The building is noted for its curved facade, unusual among New York City buildings, and impressive marble lobby.[2] Across 116th Street, The Colosseum faces The Paterno, another building with a similar curved facade. The New York Times has said that the "opposing curves, (form) a gateway as impressive as any publicly built arch or plaza in New York."[3] The unusual curved facades are the result of an 1897 plan to make the land between Claremont Avenue and Riverside Drive into a public park in order to give veterans' parades a large park adjacent to Grant's Tomb as a terminus. The street was redesigned to enter the proposed park in a gracious curve, but the city never appropriated funds to buy the land.[3]
The Colosseum was designed by Schwartz & Gross and built by the Paterno Brothers, Charles and Joseph, in 1909-1910. The luxury four-bedroom apartments with sweeping views of the Hudson River rented for $150 to $175 a month.[3]
Harlan Fiske Stone and Lajos "Louis" Jambor lived in the Colosseum when it was a private building.[4] The Colosseum was later acquired by Columbia University. Among the distinguished members of the Columbia faculty who have lived here are David Weiss Halivni and Edward Said.
References
edit- ^ "The Colosseum". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 6, 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Horsley, Carter. "The Colosseum, 435 Riverside Drive", City Realty. Accessed 26 November 2015.
- ^ a b c Gray, Christopher (1999-08-15). "The Colosseum and the Paterno, 116th Street and Riverside Drive; At Curves in the Road, 2 Unusually Shaped Buildings". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
- ^ "LOUIS JAMBOR, 69, VERSATILE ARTIST; Portraitist and Mural Painter Who Also, Did Book, Film Work Succumbs Here". The New York Times. 1954-06-12. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
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