The Kenilworth

151 Central Park West | also 1 West 75th Street | Upper West Side | built 1908

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1908

    The Kenilworth opens on Central Park West

    Developers Saxe & Coon hire the architects Townsend, Steinle and Haskell to design a 12-story luxury apartment house at 151 Central Park West. Completed in 1908 at a projected cost of about $1 million, the Beaux-Arts building has rusticated limestone at its base, red brick above and a copper-trimmed mansard roof. Each floor holds just three large apartments.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1910

    September 14

    George M. Cohan's daughter is born in the building

    Actor and playwright George M. Cohan and his wife Agnes are among the Kenilworth's first residents. Their daughter is born in the family's apartment on the afternoon of September 14, 1910, two years after the building opened. Cohan was by then one of Broadway's most popular stars.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1920

    Residents buy the Kenilworth and form a cooperative

    In 1920 the Kenilworth's tenants form Kenilworth Associates, Inc., to take title to the building and run it as a cooperative. The residents pay $1.25 million for it. That year, vacant apartments are advertised at rents of $4,000 to $6,500 a year.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1936

    June 2

    Metropolitan Life forecloses on the Kenilworth

    The cooperative falls behind on its debts during the Depression, owing $35,000 in unpaid taxes on top of a $780,000 mortgage. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company forecloses on the Kenilworth on June 2, 1936, and the building operates as a rental again until real estate operator Max N. Natanson buys it in 1941.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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