The Astor Apartments

235 West 75th Street | also 2139 Broadway, 2141 Broadway, 230 West 76th Street | Upper West Side | built 2016

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

  1. 1901

    William Waldorf Astor's apartment house opens on West 75th Street

    Architects Clinton & Russell designed the eight-story, U-shaped Astor Apartments for the Astor estate, completing the gray-brick and limestone building in 1901. Its 42 apartments, of seven to nine rooms each, rented for $1,200 to $3,000 a year to families such as the Haights, Sangers and Burdens.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1913

    An addition on West 76th Street expands the Astor Apartments

    In 1913, the Astor's owners hired Peabody, Wilson & Brown to design an addition facing West 76th Street. It rose two stories taller than the original building, but the architects followed the Clinton & Russell design closely.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1972

    The state attorney general takes aim at the Astor's single-room-occupancy hotel

    The Astor had become the West Side Towers, a single-room-occupancy hotel, in 1944. By 1972 it had drawn the attention of State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz, who cited neighbors' complaints of open drug dealing and prostitution around the building. A January 1973 court order told the owners to rid the hotel of criminal elements.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1977

    December

    Herbert Mandel renovates the Astor from its SRO hotel years

    In December 1977, owner-builder Herbert Mandel announced a full gut renovation of the derelict hotel, converting it into 220 studio and one-bedroom apartments. He kept the exterior's appearance and renamed the renovated building The Astor.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 2014

    HFZ Capital buys the Astor to turn it into condominiums

    HFZ Capital, headed by Ziel Feldman, bought the building in 2014 with plans to convert it to condominium apartments. HFZ lost control of the property in 2021, and CIM Group stepped in to complete the construction and sell the remaining condos.

    Source: Wikipedia

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