Post Towers Condominium

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236-foot, 21-story Art-Deco/Art-Moderne residential building completed in 1926 as an office building for Cyrus H.K. Curtis. Designed by Horace Trumbauer for the New York Evening Post newspaper, it has a 2-story limestone base with a granite basement. The window bays are recessed and the base is capped by an entablature with stylized balustrades. The 2-story window openings are lined by spiral moldings and have brass framing. Two of the bays facing Washington Street have entrances framed by green marble bands, and with green canvas canopies extending out onto the sidewalk. At the center of the Carlisle elevation, an underground parking garage entrance is located beneath a wide and shallow segmental-arch, with six square-headed windows above it on the 2nd floor.

The upper floors are clad in brown brick. The center portion of the Carlisle facade is deeply set-back above the 3rd floor to create a light court with two wings wrapping around it. Above the 7th floors, of three of the north, east and south elevations have a major setback, with a series of smaller setbacks forming a central tower. Projecting brick piers with stone caps emphasize the verticality of the massing. Colorful panels of geometric tiles ornament the upper stories. Stone detailing is also used on the upper setbacks to add further emphasis to the verticality of the building’s design. At the top level, there are round-arched windows, with smaller circular oriel windows above those.

The New York Post is the 13th-oldest and seventh-most-widely circulated newspaper in the United States.[2] Established in 1801 by federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, it became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century, under the name New York Evening Post. Its offices are now located in midtown, at 1211 Avenue of the Americas.

The building has been converted to condominiums, and was renamed Post Towers.

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