110 Central Park South (New York City, New York)

 condominiums, cooperative

262-foot, 28-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1928 as a residential hotel with 25 floors. Designed by J.E.R. Carpenter, it opened as the Navarro Hotel. It later became the Ritz-Carlton New York, then the Westin Central Park South, and finally the InterContinental Central Park South before the building was converted into a condop (a cooperative with condo rules) in 2006, with three new floors on top designed by Costas Kondylis.

The 5-bay facade is clad in buff-colored brick above a 6-story limestone base, rusticated on the lower two floors. The central entrance has metal-and-glass double-doors, sidelights, and transom slightly recessed within a decorative molding, covered by a suspended metal canopy. To the left is a storefront spanning two bays, of brown metal and glass, with its entrance at the end bay. To the right is a tripartite windows with many small sub-panes, and a metal-doored service entrance at the west end bay. The 2nd floor has tripartite windows separated from the ground floor by black metal spandrels overlaid by wrought-iron grilles that are slightly rounded outward. These windows are topped by splayed keystones with carved dragon figures. A band course with a scrolled leaf pattern caps the 2nd floor.

The 3rd-5th floor have fluted pilasters topped by Corinthian capitals. The windows are the same as on the 2nd floor, with the same spandrels and grilles between the 3rd & 4th floors, which have 2-story surrounds framing the windows. Small stone cornices top the windows on the 4th floor, and the 5th-floor windows have stone surrounds with winged crests on top. The 6th floor has paneled pilasters adorned with elaborate foliate ornament; a dentiled band course caps the base, with lions' heads atop each pier. Black metal air-conditioning vents have been cut below the windows of each floor above the 3rd.

The upper floors have metal-framed tripartite windows as well, with more vents. They have stone sills and brick lintels with narrow, decorative stone panels at the centers. The two edges of the facade have brick quoins from the 7th-20th floors. A small stone cornice sets off the 18th floor, and black metal spandrels with rounded wrought-iron railings separate the 18th & 19th floors. There are carved medallions at the piers near the top of the 19th floor. The 20th floor is dominated by a projecting, bracketed cornice, with three windows in each bay that are divided by the bases of the brackets.

The 21st & 22nd floors have double-windows in each bay, with the center and end bays set back. All four outer bays set back above the 22nd floor, and the three middle bays (with tripartite windows) set back above the 23rd, where the corners are adorned with urns. At the 24th & 25th floors the center section changes to two bays of tripartite windows, while the farther-set back outer bays have single-windows, with tripartite windows at the ends. The outer bays have a large setback above the 25th floor, with terraces at the corners, while the middle section has a very shallow setback to the projecting center of the 26th floor, which has a wide band of windows across the front, and another terrace on top. The very ends of the 26th floor also set farther back. The 27th & 28th floors have bands of 4 windows at the end bays, and a 2-story window at the center, bordered on the left by a single-window at both floors.

The building now contains 63 apartments. The ground floor storefront is occupied by Ascot Chang menswear.