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Towers on the Park South (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / Edgewater / New York City, New York / Cathedral Parkway - West 110th Street, 300
 condominium, 1989_construction, Modern (architecture)

190-foot, 20-story modernist residential building completed in 1989. Designed by Caudill Rowlett Scott and Bond Ryder James, the building consists of a 20-story highrise component facing Frederick Douglass Circle and a 9-story mid-rise wing extending over to Manhattan Avenue, and wrapping around a courtyard on the south side along 109th Street. There is also a north tower on the other side of Cathedral Parkway, also facing the circle. All of the facades are clad in cast-concrete, subtly ribbed and scored.

The tower's entrance is in the center bay of the five main bays that are angled northeast to face the circle. A black stone-and-metal surround projects out from the concrete facade, with angled sides that both have a window. The doorway has sliding glass doors in black metal framing below a transom, surmounted by metal lettering reading "TOWERS ON THE PARK". Hedges surrounding small trees and other landscaping front the other bays on this facade and also extend to completely surround the tower section of the building. The four other ground-floor bays have 6-pane window bands with large glass transoms. The upper floors have bands of seven or eight windows in black metal framing. The concrete spandrels between floors have subtle, vertical ribbing recessed between the piers and between the upper and lower edges of the spandrels. The north-facing facade of the tower has a bay of square 2-over-2 windows with vents to the left of each one. The concrete is lightly scored, and at the west end, where it drops down to 9 floors and joins with the mid-rise wing, there is a bay of single-windows with vents to the right of each one. There are no windows at the ground floor here. The southeast corner of the main facade is set back from the five main bays, and has a bay of single-windows with vents to the right. The narrow east facade facing Central Park West has a bay of double-windows at its north end, followed by a single-window and a triple-window. The south facade facing West 109th Street has a single-window in the middle (with vents to the right) and a square 2-over-2 window to the right (also with vents). The angled, southwest-facing facade of the tower, with the upper floors matches those on the northeast facade. The ground floor has a number of secondary and service entrances.

The courtyard has a small amount of parking and a garden, and is enclosed by an iron fence. The L-shaped mid-rise wing extends west along Cathedral Parkway before turning south along Manhattan Avenue. Most of the north facade is organized into seven wide bays of seven windows in metal framing, like those on the northeast and southwest faces of the tower. The ground floor is occupied by a Central Market, with an entrance with automatic glass doors in the center of these bays; all of these bays have green canvas awnings. The west end of the north facade has a bay of triple-windows and four bays of 2-over-2 windows, each with a small vent next to it; the only opening on the ground floor is a black metal service door. The entrance for the mid-rise wing is in the west facade, which spans seven bays with bands of eight windows on the upper floors. The entrance, in the 2nd bay from the north, has sliding glass doors between recessed windows, with a rounded, red canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. The only other ground-floor openings are square 2-over-2 windows in the south three bays. The south facade on West 109th Street has end bays that alternate double- and single-windows by floor, and four bays of single-windows in between, two of which have vents next to them; there are no ground-floor openings. Back behind the courtyard, the south facade of the mid-rise's main wing matches the north side, with seven wide bays, and the east-facing facade of the wing along Manhattan Avenue has another four bays.

The building contains a total of 342 condominium units.
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Coordinates:   40°48'2"N   73°57'33"W
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