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1925 607 West End Avenue
– Samuel Ciluzzi Secretary (Kelley Paterno page 286)
Featured in Andrew Alpern’s book The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter page 330
Located in Riverside – West End Historic District designated 19 December 1989
1925
492
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WEST END AV, 607-613 16-sty bk apt, slag rf, 73˙70
OWNER / OWNER ADDRESS
(o) 607 West End Av. Corp., Ralph Ciluzzi, Pres / (o) 2067 Bway COMMENTS
ARCHITECT / ARCHITECT ADDRESS
(a) Rosario Candela / (a) 200 W 72d [72nd] (source)
Architect Rosario Candela; Builder 607 West End Corporation 2067 Broadway; Ralph Ciluzzi President; Samuel Ciluzzi Secretary – Westerly side between 89th and 90th Streets (Alpern Acanthus page 330)
WEST END AVENUE DOCUMENTATION Survey 2008
Address: 607 West End Avenue, west side between West 89th
and 90th Streets
Block / Lot: 1250/94
NB Number: 492-25 Date: 1925
Original Use: Apartments No. of units: 33
Stories: 16 Height : 170’
Estimated Cost: $500,000
Façade Materials: main material brick base limestone lower floors limestone trim limestone cornice metal
Structure: steel
Original Owner: 607 West End Avenue Corporation, Ralph Ciluzzi, president, 2067 Broadway
Architect: Rosario Candela, 200 West 72nd Street
Landmark Status: Riverside Drive-West End Historic District
Comments: Rosario Candela planned this apartment building with thirty-two units, two per floor – a two-bedroom unit to the north and a three-bedroom unit to the south. The original plan also included a single penthouse. As is typical of Candela’s designs, the building is Italian Renaissance in style. Building faced with brick laid in Flemish bond and is capped by a deep cornice.
Bibliography: Alpern, Andrew, The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter (New York: Acanthus Press, 2001), 330-31. New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, Riverside-West End Historic District Designation Report (New York: Landmarks Preservation Commission), 83-84. (source)
