Posted February 1, 20214 yr you only have one chance to make a first impression! post your interesting building entrances -- ohio and elsewhere. cleveland fenn tower nyc A look at the lavish entryways of NYC’s most exclusive buildings By Zachary Kussin January 29, 2021 | 2:26pm There’s nothing entry-level about the entrances of New York City’s most exclusive apartment buildings. Now, a local architectural historian is giving these grand doors their due. “Most people know the doorway that they go through to get into an apartment [building] and maybe the immediate surrounding of the doorway, but they don’t see the entire entrance,” Andrew Alpern, the author of the new coffee-table tome “Posh Portals: Elegant Entrances and Ingratiating Ingresses to Apartments for the Affluent in New York City” (Abbeville Press), told The Post. “And for many buildings, the entrance is much more important than just the doorway. The doorway is how you get in, but the entrance glorifies the act of going in.” The 82-year-old architect and attorney highlights more than 120 entryways around town — many of them dating between the late 1800s and World War II. more: https://nypost.com/2021/01/29/the-lavish-entryways-of-nycs-most-exclusive-buildings/ The entry at the Paterno, at 440 Riverside Drive in Morningside Heights, is a time capsule of when it was built, when carriages were used in the city (1910).
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